The Chief Medical Director provides expert medical knowledge for life and health risk selection, claims management, and product development. This includes research and develop medical impairment guidelines, develop training programs for underwriters and claims examiners, and assist in insurance mortality knowledge.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Identify medical information relevant for claims and underwriting reviews, provide advanced medical knowledge and training for underwriters and claims examiners using novel scalable formats
• Establishes medical underwriting guidelines appropriate to the organization's products and risk appetite
• Provides expert medical risk consultation on underwriting by demonstrating ability to translate medical advances and various data sources into updated and enhanced guidelines, and provide thought leadership for best medical decisions
• Keep current with general medical literature, develop subject matter expertise, advanced proficiency in evaluation quality and insurance relevance of research studies
• Identify relevant medical topics, medical advances and emerging risks, provide concise relevant updates for stakeholders, thought leadership on strategic direction
• Further develop business acumen, provide medical expertise to novel ways of doing business, contribute to risk mitigation strategies, lead fair risk assessment initiatives
• Be a visible leader in the insurance medicine community and build on DBIM with industry thought leadership
• Oversee, mentor and develop a team of medical professionals

Qualifications:

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school with 5+ years clinical experience in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
• Current and comprehensive knowledge of medical literature
• Effective written and oral communication both with formal and informal groups

Preferred Qualifications:

• MD (or DO) with active US medical license
• 5+ years’ experience in insurance medicine
• Board of insurance medicine certification (DBIM)
• Recognized as an expert or leader in the life insurance industry or medical community due to publications, presentations, or involvement in industry or medical organizations

Physical job requirements:

• Ability to work at least 40 hours per week
• Ability to utilize keyboard, mouse and computer for up to 3-6 hours per day
• Ability to utilize telephone for approximately 1-3 hours per day
• Ability to perform simple grasping including handwriting, paper manipulation, sorting, folding, etc. periodically throughout entire workday

The physical job requirements described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

New hire associates, regardless of work location or job responsibilities, must be vaccinated before beginning employment; exceptions considered for medical or religious reasons provided alternative reasonable accommodations do not create an undue hardship on the business.

Securian Financial has been around for 140 years. We’re committed to giving back to our community, donating 15,000 employee volunteer hours this past year. We also provide extensive resources to our employees for professional development and growth and a number of diverse professional and social opportunities throughout the company. There’s a reason our employees have voted us as a best place to work year after year! In addition:

• Generous paid time off. We want you to take time off for whatever matters most to you!
• Tuition reimbursement program. We value continuous learning at Securian!
• Company-funded pension plan as well as 401K retirement plan – great resources to secure your financial future.
• Continuous opportunities for new challenges.
• Variety of health plan options as well as dental and vision plans.
• Paid maternity/paternity leaves.

Securian Financial Group, Inc. does not discriminate based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital or familial status, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, veteran status, status in regard to public assistance, status in a local human rights commission, or any other status or condition protected by local, state or federal law. If you are a job seeker with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please contact us by telephone 651-665-5522 (voice), 711 (telecommunications relay), or by email at EmployeeRelations@securian.com.

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