Specialist, Portfolio Management - P&C (Commercial Middle Market Insurance)

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 opening can be filled in a remote/work-from-home (WFH) capacity or in one of our offices.

This portfolio management role is a key member of our Portfolio/Product Management team, optimizing analytical support for the Commercial Middle Market Field organization.  

Advanced Excel and Power BI / Tableau skills are a required for consideration, while coding ability in different languages and applications is preferred (Databricks, Dataiku, SQL, R/Python).  Prior experience within the Insurance and/or Financial Services industry is strongly preferred.  

This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization.  Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program

Compensation Grade: F3

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Job Description Summary

If you are driven to develop real business intelligence from data to inform business decision-making, and can communicate complex issues in an understandable and relevant way, we want to know more about you! Working on our team offers the opportunity to influence the products offered and help Nationwide meet and exceed the needs of our customers in the marketplace today and into the future.

As a Specialist, you'll provides detailed analysis at the portfolio level to support development and execution of underwriting, automation and operational strategies to assess market segment performance. We'll count on you, too, to provides support to product and underwriting teams on specific risk characteristics, underwriting appetite, guidelines and business relationships. You may have opportunities to lead cross functional teams to complete key project work.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Gathers information from multiple sources according to company guidelines, to perform analysis. May require gathering verbal information from internal subject matter authorities or partners and data through reports or other external published or non-published electronic means. Provides and applies context and understanding of information to anticipate multiple variables and complexities needed to research.

• Analyzes regional product performance or specific segments of the book and finds opportunities at the region, state, territory and agency levels. Identifies and analyzes key product, performance and profitability drivers such as distribution, ratings and rules performance, etc. to validate assumptions, identify adverse impacts, trends and solutions. Applies judgement, understanding, and curiosity to data to see opportunities, develop effective recommendations and solutions.

• Completes work within established time and service standards. May manage timelines and coordinate completion of project work through others.

• Develops and determines project ideas based on observations, analysis, experience and intuition. Determines necessary steps to process work. Defines data sets, data sources and assumptions needed to complete the analysis. Recommends robust solutions or work around based on analysis, along with detailed action plans for implementation and the resulting anticipated improvement.

• Identifies work priorities, parameters and implementation plans in collaboration with department leaders. Develops and coordinates project plans, priorities and outcomes across a project team.

• Consults with internal and external partners to resolve business issues and complex projects requiring discernment or robust solutions. Understands organizational capabilities and uses opportunities to drive maximum value. Consults with leader and product manager on outcomes of analysis work and ideas.

• Supports agency review process for the region. Promotes teamwork among regional and staff partners to ensure alignment with strategy and development initiatives.

• Communicates with business partners by requestin