# Job Position
**Position:** Associate Underwriter

**Company:** Principal Financial Group

**Location:** Des Moines, IA 50392

**Country:** US

**Work Type:** Full-time

**Salary:** $20.84 - $39.81 an hour

**Company Rating:** 3.8/5 (777 reviews)

**Posted:** "2024-08-08T08:16:04.000Z"

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## Job Description

What You'll Do: 
    As an Associate Underwriter within our Individual Life and New Business team, you will get the opportunity to support marketing goals by issuing life insurance coverage on a favorable and timely basis consistent with mortality/morbidity objectives. Support profitability goals by assessing the expected mortality/morbidity of individual life applicants, analyzing medical, non-medical, and financial information and classifying risk appropriately. If acting within a brokerage agency underwriting capacity, may need to negotiate offers for placement of policies with the appropriate carrier. This may include acting as a partner to sales managers and producers to arrive at the best solution for a proposed insured.
   
     Evaluate applicants consistent with the company's risk