Early Career Program Manager (Hybrid)

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Our Business

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong financial performance for over 95 years. Focused on exceptional employee and customer experience, we are frequently recognized for awards and honors, including being named to Forbes’ 2021 Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance list.

Our Culture

We genuinely care about each other, our customers, and the communities in which we operate. Our leaders actively champion career development and invite us to voice unique ideas and diverse perspectives. If that sounds appealing, we think you would feel inspired on our team to achieve and be rewarded for extraordinary results.

1. Collaborate with HR and business leaders to define, create, and drive intern and early career talent acquisition strategies and programs that support organizational talent needs, with a key focus on identifying, attracting, and developing diverse talent across the organization.
2. Partner with the HR Business Partners and the Talent team to identify staffing needs and the design, modification, and execution of various workshops, training, and program enhancements.
3. Lead the continuous improvement and design of our early career strategies and programs, including branding, recruitment, and placement. Oversight and coordination of program, workshop facilitation, coaching, mentoring, and development, ensuring alignment with our overall organizational talent strategies.
4. Implement on-campus strategies and develop recruitment partnerships with colleges, universities, and organizations aligned with early career development to enable acquisition of top talent. Organize and ensure internal representation from the business teams.
5. Assist in the development and management of internal and external metrics and trends to identify areas for improvement and/or upcoming opportunities. This may include areas such as college workforce trends, market insights, program effectiveness, hiring rates, early career program performance.
6. Work closely with HR Business Partners and regional business leaders on promoting the organization’s intern and early career programs. Assists in pipelining future talent for professional level roles. Provides coaching and guidance to leaders in their efforts to grow early career talent.
7. Engage with professional organizations, universities, social media, and various networking opportunities to source qualified candidates. Actively participate in the interview and selection process of early career talent.
8. Mentor and coach early career talent, ensuring close alignment with managers; lead interns and corporate trainees through action learning projects as capstone work of program.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Ability to travel, approximately 10-15% of the time.
• Proven project/program management skills.
• Excellent organization, planning and strategic thinking skills.
• Must demonstrate strong relationship management skills.
• Strong public speaking, written and verbal communication skills.
• Interpersonal, coaching, influencing and communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into talent strategies.
• Ability to work cooperatively in a team and in a cross-functional environment.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams and Outlook).
• 5 years of talent acquisition, talent management and development or relevant work experience including managing organizational programs in an HR role.
• Bachelors’ degree or equivalent experience; SHRM-CP designation preferred.
• Leadership / mentoring experience strongly preferred

• Experience in the Insurance industry is a plus.

Salary range: $80,000.00 - $132,100.00. The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual’s unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences – and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.

Selective maintains a drug-free workplace.

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