Underwriting Strategy Specialist; Hybrid

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2025 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year.

Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs.

This role supports the Underwriting Strategy function by analyzing portfolio performance across Selective's commercial lines of business, including General Liability, Commercial Auto, Workers Compensation, Property, Umbrella/Excess, and specialty lines. The analyst translates portfolio, pricing, loss, and market data into strategic insights that help inform underwriting priorities and portfolio management decisions.

All job duties and responsibilities must be carried out in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

• Monitor and analyze portfolio performance across commercial lines, including growth, profitability, retention, pricing adequacy, and loss trends.
• Identify emerging issues, adverse trends, opportunities, and line-specific performance drivers.
• Support quarterly underwriting reviews, countrywide reviews, executive reporting, and strategic planning materials.
• Partner with Product, Actuarial, Claims, Underwriting Practices, and regional leadership to develop strategic insights.
• Support pricing, rate adequacy, loss review, and diversification initiatives.
• Help develop dashboards, analytical frameworks, and repeatable portfolio monitoring processes. Help improve segment-level tools, reporting, and analytical frameworks.
• Contribute to tool and process innovation, including AI-enabled analysis and reporting improvements.
• Identify trends, concentration risks, opportunities, and competitive dynamics that impact our market segments.
• Analyze external market and industry trends impacting segment performance and strategy.
• Support diversification strategy, segment monitoring, and execution tracking.

• * Understanding of major commercial lines of business and related pricing, underwriting, and loss dynamics.
• * Ability to analyze portfolio data and translate findings into business recommendations.
• * Experience using business intelligence tools such as COGNOS and/or Power BI.
• * Strong written, verbal, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• * Exposure to actuarial concepts, competitive analysis, and external market data.
• * Familiarity with ISO, reinsurance concepts, and both field and home office environments.
• * Understanding of commercial market segments, industry verticals, and related underwriting and competitive dynamics.

• * College degree in Business, Finance, Risk Management, Insurance, Economics, or related field preferred.
• * 5-8 years of commercial P&C insurance experience in underwriting, portfolio analysis, actuarial, analytics, or related roles.
• * Insurance designations such as CPCU, ARM, or AU preferred.
• * Experience across multiple commercial lines.

Selective Insurance offers a total rewards package that includes a competitive base salary, incentive plan eligibility at all levels, and…