Technical Director, Middle Market Industry Segment - Commercial

If you’re passionate about helping people protect what matters most to them at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, as well as innovating and simplifying processes and operations to provide the best customer value, then Nationwide’s Property and Casualty team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers and partners are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

Location: Preferred location is Columbus, OH; however, this role is available to remote candidates as well. Remote or hybrid candidates with the desired experience will be considered.

This role will serve as referral underwriting leader for complex Global Property and Casualty, Middle Market multinational accounts sourced by N2G
, a joint venture created by two insurance powerhouses:
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (Nationwide®) and Generali Global Corporate & Commercial.

In this role, you will serve as the technical underwriting authority responsible for evaluating complex and high-exposure property and casualty risks within the Middle Market segment. This role serves as a key referral point for underwriting teams, providing expert guidance, ensuring adherence to underwriting standards, and supporting profitable growth across global portfolios.

The position partners closely with underwriting, actuarial, product, and risk engineering teams to drive disciplined underwriting practices, enhance technical capabilities, and maintain consistency in risk selection and pricing.

Are you a proven Industry leader with strategic, creative and technical commercial product and underwriting skills? Do you have deep insights in specific commercial industry segments as well as industry competitors? Can you translate those insights into strategic and technical underwriting practices and partner with teams to implement the best practices? If you have these abilities, set strategic vision and a drive to achieve financial goals, then we want to hear from you!

• Responsible for assisting in the development and implementation of strategic long and short-range plans to drive profitable business opportunities within assigned Commercial Middle Market industry segment(s). Monitors industry portfolio management to verify risk selection and quality are in alignment with risk appetite and strategy.

• Responsible for providing guidance, direction and authority on industry practice referrals. Maintains appropriate level of authority in providing technical assistance and support to underwriting teams across the country. Serves as technical expert to provide technical advice for assigned industry segments to provide technical underwriting consultation using office hours, new business round tables and team huddles while fostering a collaborative environment.

• Within assigned industry segment(s), advises the national field underwriting organization through effective risk selection, agent/broker relationships, portfolio management, mix of business, CAT exposure management, quality underwriting decisions and territory performance in line with business strategy.

• Collaborates with industry business leaders and field underwriting teams to establish and maintain underwriting guidelines, authority, appetite, underwriting standards while developing strategies for retention and new business.

• Regularly collaborates with Risk Management and Claims teams to learn about trends and insights while making recommendations in underwriting practice, capabilities or service offerings. Monitors loss trends, regulatory changes, and emerging hazards for assigned industry segment(s) and assists in the implementation of continuous improvement strategies for stronger portfolio performance.

• Regularly collaborates with product/portfolio, line of business experts, underwriting capabilities, and inside/field underwriting leadership teams as it relates to executing on the assigned industry strategy. Collaborates with actuary to understand and refine pricing models aligned with assigned industry. Supports…