Senior Vice President, Underwriting Quality Assurance

Selective; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Selective Insurance, a midsized U.S. domestic P&C carrier, seeks a seasoned leader to oversee commercial lines underwriting quality across regions, service centers, and MUSIC.

You will partner with field SBUs and corporate teams to plan reviews, identify trends, and drive improvement while ensuring SOX and regulatory standards are met. This role reports to senior underwriting leadership and requires strong multi-line underwriting expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across

Qualifications

• Technical underwriting skills.
• Understanding of state and regulatory requirements in the insurance industry.
• Ability to drive solutions in a matrix environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven leadership skills required.
• Excellent listening, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Able to lead, direct and manage by influence.
• 10-15 years of recent insurer experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the quarterly underwriting reviews. Work with the field and SBUs to aggregate the review results, to identify trends and gaps in knowledge. Provide action plans and assist in addressing areas needing improvement by partnering with the SBUs, LOBs and Insurance Learning Services.
• Provide guidance and coordinate with the legal department for compliance issues regarding specific topics to assure underwriting processes and procedures appropriately match compliance requirements.
• Coordinate the formal underwriting regions, service center, and MUSIC reviews in accordance with the established schedule. Lead the review teams from the SBU and LOB as well as lead the wrap up discussions that include the Executive Management teams.
• Partner with the Chief Underwriting Officer, Commercial Lines and the SBU Leaders on, at minimum, an annual basis to ensure that the structure and intent of the program meets the underwriting discipline expectations they have for the organization.
• Provide updates to Board of Directors on key Enterprise findings.
• Author the SOX process documentation and provide quarterly certification as the Corporate Process Owner of the Quality Assurance Program.
• Lead the development of action plans and work with the regions to implement action plans resulting from the formal region review to assure gaps are closed, within the agreed upon timeframes.
• Provide leadership, guidance and oversight to quality assurance program for Safety Management, Bonds & E&S Operations relative to program administration.

Skills

Technical underwriting

Regulatory requirements

Matrix environment

Written and verbal communication

Leadership

Listening and negotiating

Influence and leadership by influence

Education

College degree

Job description

Selective Insurance, a midsized U.S. domestic P&C carrier, seeks a seasoned leader to oversee commercial lines underwriting quality across regions, service centers, and MUSIC.

You will partner with field SBUs and corporate teams to plan reviews, identify trends, and drive improvement while ensuring SOX and regulatory standards are met. This role reports to senior underwriting leadership and requires strong multi-line underwriting expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across