Specialist, Business Insights (Life Sales Enablement) HYBRID

Are you passionate about being part of a team that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their retirement? If so, then Nationwide Financial 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.

The Life Sales Enablement team is a group of individuals that leverages digital tools, data analytics and placement coordination in support of our life insurance sales partners. Life Sales Enablement’s goal is to optimize the sales process by strategically identifying the highest potential leads, utilizing technology to plan sales activities and providing hands-on placement support.

This role currently structures and leads campaigns across multiple life distributions using data-driven statistical modeling techniques to maximize sales outcomes and measure the effectiveness of past campaigns. The role is also responsible for partnering with sales associates, peer analytics groups, and external vendors to grow and evolve the effectiveness of the sales process.

Key Responsibilities:   

• Builds and maintains relationships with sales leaders and associates to possess the full understanding of the sales environment to effectively advise and plan sales strategies and increase revenue growth.
• Builds and maintains relationships with peer life analytics groups to coordinate the analytical tools and resources being provided to our customers with the goal of a “single source of truth” that is in line with Nationwide’s sales goals.
• Builds and maintains relationships with external vendors to ensure that Life Sale Enablement is leveraging the appropriate technology in support of our sales customers, while considering costs, risk/benefit and overall alignment to sales goals and objectives.
• Gathers requirements, designs, builds, tests and deploys large scale sales campaigns across multiple life distributions utilizing data-driven statistical and predictive methodologies.
• Coordinates with business stakeholders to identify the scope, timeline and success metrics of deliverables.
• Responsible for the attribution metrics of sales activity. Consults with sales leaders to understand, define and deliver insight in support of life sales objectives and priorities.
• Builds customized business intelligence processes and infrastructure, leveraging technologies like SQL, Python, Tableau, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, etc. The role requires extracting and transforming large data sets across multiple platforms, both structured and unstructured like Oracle, Snowflake, Teradata, and AWS to generate insight and advise sales leaders and associates.
• Prepares insights and analytics derived from multiple primary data sources and information systems.
• Trains other users in life insurance products, life data infrastructure and technology.
• Serves as a technical consultant for peer groups and special projects
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives. 

This role requires a hybrid work schedule at the Plaza One location in Columbus, Ohio. The team is onsite 3 days per week.

Compensation Grade: F4

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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 Specialist, Business Insights, you'll extract and manipulate internal and external data through R/SAS/SQL/Python, perform diagnostic and inferential analysis, and communicate actionable insights to business partners. You’ll also work with business partners to determine data and information needs to aid the business with decision making and build statistical and visual solutions using sophisticated business intelligence tools. And you may serve as a lead to others for information and data needs. Your focus will be to maximize the insight gained from internal and external data, ensuring that business partners are making decisions in an optimally informed way.

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