Underwriting Manager - Health & Fitness

At RPS, we don’t just embrace bold ideas, we make them happen. We’re a team of entrepreneurs, big-picture thinkers, and passionate experts who thrive on possibility. Every day, we collaborate across teams, challenge convention, and push boundaries to design innovative solutions for our clients. With access to top-rated carriers and a dynamic marketplace, we bring strategy and creativity together to deliver what others might call impossible. Here, every voice counts, every perspective matters, and every challenge is an opportunity to grow. You’ll be supported by a culture that celebrates ownership, curiosity, and high performance, where you’re trusted to do your best work and encouraged to keep learning along the way.

Are you ready to lead and shape a groundbreaking initiative in the insurance industry? Gallagher is seeking an experienced Underwriting Manager to spearhead the development of a health and fitness insurance program. This is a unique opportunity to build a program from the ground up, combining underwriting expertise, strategic leadership, and industry relationships to create a significant business segment.

In this role, you’ll oversee risk selection, pricing, underwriting operations, manage referrals, and collaborate with carrier partners, who have delegated their underwriting authority to RPS Programs to ensure compliance and success. You’ll also play a pivotal role in designing processes, sourcing distribution, and supporting producers to achieve ambitious program goals.

As the Underwriting Manager, you’ll take charge of launching, managing, and growing a health and fitness insurance program. As a steward of our capital carrier partners, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Leading underwriting decisions, ensuring profitability and compliance with industry standards.
• Building and nurturing relationships with carrier partners and industry stakeholders.
• Designing and implementing processes to streamline operations and drive growth.
• Supporting producers by sourcing distribution and managing referrals.
• Strategically planning for the program’s expansion, including hiring and developing a team of underwriters.

This role is a hybrid of underwriting, leadership, and individual contribution, offering the potential to lead additional programs. At Gallagher, we believe in investing in our people. This role offers the chance to make a lasting impact on the health and fitness insurance segment while growing your career in a supportive and innovative environment. If you’re ready to take on a strategic leadership role and shape the future of this program, we want to hear from you.

• A bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience in the insurance industry.
• In-depth knowledge of underwriting, regulatory compliance, and industry standards.
• Proven ability to analyze and resolve complex problems with ingenuity and strategic thinking.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks effectively.
• Technological proficiency, including experience with Excel, Word, and network systems, to facilitate decision-making and automation.
• A self-directed approach with excellent leadership and team management capabilities.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.