Sr Product Manager - Personal Lines (P&C Insurance Field/Territory Product Leader)

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 Personal Lines Senior Product Manager is the field/territory product leader for personal lines products over their assigned state(s).  They are accountable for all lines of business, most especially Auto & Home, and will likely have at least 1 direct report. 

Candidates must possess:

• Directly related experience within P&C insurance product management, actuarial, underwriting, or a related area within the business. 
• Strong knowledge and command of regulatory, financial, pricing, and operational plan strategies as related to personal lines insurance products.
• Familiarity and basic proficiency with data mining and visualization tools such as Console, Tableau, and/or Power BI.

Prior experience handling Michigan, Missouri, and/or Kentucky is especially valuable but not required. 

Compensation Grade: H3

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Job Description Summary

Our work is essential to helping Nationwide build future capability to serve customer needs. Keeping existing products relevant and marketable and building new products takes research, critical thinking, practicality and collaboration. If you enjoy gathering input and information, working independently and on a team and creating innovative solutions for customers, we want to know more about you!

As a Senior Product Manager, you'll develop, apply and implement product strategy in alignment with market strategies and lead and collaborate on critical initiatives across regions and other functional departments. You’ll also influence decisions with internal and external partners at all levels and you'll be responsible for positioning products for profitable growth within the largest or most complex region with the most financial impact and complexity. In addition, you'll implement processes related to financial planning, rate reviews, market development and communication of product management and you'll support regional and corporate objectives through ongoing analysis and monitoring of results to ensure alignment, communication of results and sharing product performance and perspective.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Gathers information from multiple internal and external sources according to company guidelines, including competitor filings to perform analysis. May require gathering information from internal subject matter specialists 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 the multiple variables and complexities needed to research. May coordinate project/product research through others.

• Analyzes product performance and proactively finds opportunities at state, line of business and agency level. Identifies and analyzes key product, performance and profitability drivers such as distribution, rate structure and rules performance to validate assumptions, identify adverse impacts, trends and solutions. Applies judgment, understanding and curiosity to data and provides high level analysis considering multiple complexities to build fully developed solutions. Analyzes and reviews financial results, product profitability, business mix and competitive information and forecasts performance. May coordinate the analysis of others to include larger reviews.

• Manages own schedule to complete work within established time and service standards. Plans work to ensure rate review and other key processes are completed to ensure speed to market.

• Develops comprehensive product strategy for the state(s) for overall profitability using rate reviews, pricing, risk appetite, placement, timing, etc. Determines how to apply and impleme