Consultant, Business Insights (CLESS Claims and Underwriting Advanced Analytics & Risk Selection)

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.

Join a high-impact data insights team driving underwriting and claims excellence across Nationwide’s Commercial, Excess, Surplus, and Specialty lines. The Advanced Analytics and Risk Selection Team delivers intelligent, actionable analytics, along with AI-driven insights and risk selection solutions that power competitive advantage. We’re looking for a hands-on technical expert who thrives on working directly with data to build scalable, intelligent solutions.

Role Overview

You will be deeply involved in querying, synthesizing, and visualizing complex datasets to uncover actionable insights. You’ll support design and delivery of advanced analytics, AI, and predictive solutions that drive strategic decision-making and a competitive advantage for the CLESS business.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on data exploration, feature engineering, and model development.
• Build scalable analytic and AI solutions aligned with underwriting and risk selection goals.
• Translate raw data into clear, consumable insights and visualizations.
• Collaborate across teams to assess business impact and deliver high-value solutions.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong technical skills in Databricks, SQL, Python, R, or similar tools.
• Proven experience in data wrangling, visualization, and insight generation.
• Deep understanding of statistical distributions and methods such as hypothesis testing.
• Experience in P&C insurance
• Familiarity with predictive modeling techniques and statistical and predictive modeling packages
• Ability to work independently and dive deep into complex data problems.
• Comfortable translating technical findings into business-relevant insights.
• Passionate about building solutions that make a measurable impact.
• Strong ability to communicate (written and verbally) complex messages in a business-friendly, consumable manner

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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 compan