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Actuary, Agribusiness Pricing

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Actuary/Sr. Actuary to lead our Commercial Agribusiness Pricing portfolio. This role is pivotal in driving modernization and strategic influence within our organization.

Role Scope & Impact

• Lead the Commercial Agribusiness Pricing portfolio, managing a team of actuaries.

• Serve as a strategic partner to business leaders across product, underwriting, finance, and claims.

• Drive modernization efforts—introducing structure, templates, and analytics

• Present regularly to senior executives, providing insights and recommendations.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• FCAS; ACAS with strong experience

• Background in commercial lines or agricultural pricing

• Proven change agent—able to lead transformation and build new processes

• Strong communicator with executive presence

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building from the ground up

Why This Role?

• High visibility with senior leadership

• Opportunity to shape and modernize a critical portfolio

• Supportive leadership and openness to innovation

• A chance to make a real impact in a collaborative organization

This role can be staffed fully remote.

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Job Description Summary

Our Property and Casualty (P&C) Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. If this sounds like a place you could thrive, then we want to know more about you!
As an Actuary, you’ll show a mastery of business operations, systems, and actuarial methodologies. You will provide leadership, direction and oversight for the performance of complex actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. In addition, you’ll develop a strategic vision for the team to ensure efficient, consistent and integrated data and analysis. We’ll count on you to provide business recommendations that are crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide our customers. You’ll need to work independently and may lead others (directly and/or indirectly).

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Acts as strategic technical expert of actuarial methodologies allowing the ability to source and manipulate data within standard requirements.

• Conducts complex analyses, adhering to actuarial standards, by selecting appropriate data sources, making assumptions, recognizing consideration, and developing recommendations. Accountable for resolving unreasonable results/non-optimal solutions using experience and professional judgment.  Analysis conducted will be used to influence broad strategic vison.

• Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources and considerations in an organized fashion.

• Prepares and presents actuarial findings and documents suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the OCFO leadership level. May professionally represent company's position with regulators, auditors and external vendors. May negotiate within defined parameters.

• Develops cross functional work plans and ensures accurate work product is delivered. Identifies any additional business partners needed for work plan success.

• Develops and implements new techniques used in peer reviews. Participates in peer reviews to provide expert guidance, collaboration, ensure quality work and drive innovation.

• Builds strategic business relationships at all levels of the organization to drive solution delivery.

• Identifies gaps in trai