Consultant, Business Insights (Strategy - Middle Market)

If you’re passionate about helping people protect what matters most to them, 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 are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

 This full-time Consultant position is responsible for creating and owning the business intelligence strategy for the Standard Commercial – Middle Market planning unit, inclusive of reporting and self-service capabilities. This associate will serve as the single point of contact for Middle Market and will be accountable for the intake and prioritization of work aligned to that planning unit. This associate will ensure that all reporting available to Middle Market is relevant, non-duplicative, timely, accurate, and easily accessible.

 The ideal candidates will possess:

• Demonstrated experience working on cross-functional projects and work teams
• The proven ability to quickly build rapport and credibility with multiple stakeholders across the organization at every level
• Excellent organizational, writing, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to present information with confidence in front of a senior audience
• Comfort working in ambiguous situations, with the ability to develop frameworks and structures to define problems and construct execution plans that are achievable and pragmatic

Prior experience prioritizing and delegating work for others is preferred.

Familiarity with applications R/Python/SQL/SAS/Tableau/Jira/Data Bricks strongly preferred.

Compensation Grade: G4

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Job Description Summary

We are a versatile group of individuals, working together to meet the needs of our customers. We value knowledge, analytical aptitude, and collaboration. If you thrive in a busy, engaging work environment, we want to know more about you!

As a Consultant, Business Insights, you’ll extract data to obtain knowledge and insights, manipulate internal and external data through R/SAS/SQL/Python, perform diagnostic and inferential analysis, investigate complex business concerns using data and statistical techniques, apply analysis or visualization techniques, build forecasts and/or projections of possible business futures and benefits, and communicate key findings to business partners. Your focus will be to maximize insight gained from internal and external data to ensure that business partners are making decisions in an optimally informed way.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Applies substantive business expertise to render insights and forecast/project on extracted data sets to craft, package and communicate actional insights and recommendations to business partners.

• Builds and maintains relationships and serves as a trusted business advisor to clients, internal risk partners and other stakeholders. Cultivates partnerships across the company to ensure methodologies and assumptions align with corporate practices.

• Participates in the development of scope, risk/control matrix, project timelines and assignments. Responsible for effectively synthesizing own project work and the work of team members. Work may span more than one project or focus area.

• Leverages statistical inferencing when conducting analysis. Communicates significance in findings when working with business partners. Utilizes appropriate visualization techniques as needed.

• Collaborates with leaders to develop strategies for the business unit. Consults with business to understand, align, and deliver work that supports business objectives and priorities.

• Determines appropriate information and data to be shared with customers. Shares financial and operational analyses with appropriate area of the company as assigned. Responsible for building business intelligence applications using R/Python/SQL/SAS/Tableau.

• Manages special projects and serves as an analytic consultant and contact for team members and associates outside the department.

• Serves as a consultant and subject matter expert for busi