Senior VP: Market Segment Underwriting Leader

Selective Insurance Company of America; Short Hills (NJ); On-site; USD 264,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plans

Retirement plan with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Tuition reimbursement

20 days paid time off

Job summary

Selective Insurance Company of America is seeking a Senior Underwriting Leader to ensure disciplined risk selection and align with enterprise underwriting standards while enabling speed in front-line execution. You will provide strategic leadership to teams supporting transactional underwriting.

The role requires coaching, training, and mentoring underwriters, fostering continuous learning and accountability across regions, and driving underwriting excellence through cross-functional

Qualifications

• Strong problem-solving ability; ability to explain rationale and coach 'the why'.
• 10+ years standard Commercial Lines underwriting experience.
• Technical underwriting acumen with broad segment expertise.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior underwriting leadership over teams managing referrals and consultations.
• Coach, train, and mentor underwriters; oversee regional authority delegations.
• Lead Strategic Business Unit Leaders to monitor factors affecting market segments.
• Influence and drive adoption of underwriting strategies balancing growth with risk.
• Collaborate with actuarial, analytics, claims, legal, marketing, and product leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Underwriting excellence

Strategic thinking

Communication

Negotiation

Education

College degree

Job description

Selective Insurance Company of America is seeking a Senior Underwriting Leader to ensure disciplined risk selection and align with enterprise underwriting standards while enabling speed in front-line execution. You will provide strategic leadership to teams supporting transactional underwriting.

The role requires coaching, training, and mentoring underwriters, fostering continuous learning and accountability across regions, and driving underwriting excellence through cross-functional