Director, Business Insights

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.

We are seeking a dynamic and knowledgeable team leader to join our growing organization, where your expertise in financial services will be pivotal in guiding our strategic direction. In this role, you will lead a passionate team, fostering a collaborative environment while leveraging your technical acumen to drive innovative solutions. You will excel at transforming complex data into compelling narratives that inform and influence our business partners, ensuring they are equipped with the insights needed to make informed decisions. A strong foundation in coding and modeling is essential, as you will explore AI and technological advancements to enhance our processes and offerings. If you are a personable leader with a passion for data storytelling and a commitment to continuous learning, we invite you to help shape the future of our organization.

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

Compensation Grade: H4

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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 Director, Business Insights, you’ll lead a team responsible for extracting and manipulating internal and external data through R/SAS/SQL/Python, performing diagnostic and inferential analysis, investigating complex business concerns using data, technical techniques, analysis or visualization techniques, and communicating key findings to business partners. Your focus will be for your team to maximize and effectively communicate insight gained from internal and external data to ensure that business executives are making decisions in an optimally informed way. And we’ll count on you to establish, grow, and evolve relationships with the business to maximize effectiveness.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Builds and maintains relationships and serves as a trusted business advisor to business executives, clients, internal risk partners and others. Creates partnerships across the company to ensure methodologies and assumptions used are aligned with corporate practices.

• Leads team performing data analysis and modeling on extracted data sets to craft, package and communicate actional insights and recommendations to business partners and executives.

• Directs team responsible for crafting, packaging and communicating internal/external insights to business partners.  Ensures that insights are positioned to be action oriented.

• Plans and advises team regarding work which may span more than one project or focus area. Owns the development of the scope, risk/control matrix, project timelines and assignments.

• Drives the development of strategies for the business unit. Influences business executives to understand. Directs the team to align and deliver analysis that supports business objectives and priorities. 

• Leads team in building business intelligence through tools such as R, Python, SAS, SQL, Tableau, etc.

• May lead training on report preparation and data base access.

• Leads training on analysis, problem solving, and statistical inferencing.

• Leads a portfolio of special projects for both team members and members from other departments.

• Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives. 

• Leverages statistical inferencing when conducting analysis. Communicates significance in findings when working with business partners.

• Manages associates, including performance, salary planning and administration, training and development, workflow and organizational planning, hiring and placement a