Senior Consultant, Innovation Product Manager-P&C Innovation

If you're passionate about helping a Fortune 100 company drive their strategy forward through innovative product development and advancing strategic partnerships to protect customers (and their pets), then Nationwide is 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.

The ideal candidate for this role with has experience in Property and Casualty Insurance. Personal Lines (auto and home) experience is highly preferred.

This role can work in a hybrid capacity from the Columbus, OH offices but remote work arrangements will be considered for candidates located outside the Columbus area.

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

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Job Description Summary

Are you agile across all stages of product development - initiation, solution design, launch, and ongoing maintenance of products? Can you balance strategy, design, profitability and growth? If so, then we want to know more about you!

As a Senior Consultant, Innovation Product Manager, you'll work to ensure customer needs are translated successfully into new products and customer experiences across the value chain. We'll count on you to align to business strategy, identify customer needs and be a key contributor to establishing the vision and defining the roadmap for innovation solutions that solve customer needs and deliver business value. You’ll be working with a cross-functional team to lead opportunity assessments that balance desirability, feasibility and viability. You will independently lead research and concept design and ultimately shepherd the opportunity through build and incubate. We’ll count on you to make recommendations about feature set, scope, go-to-market plans, pricing and design features. Throughout the entire innovation process, you will lead the coordination across the enterprise, including technology and design resources as well as Legal, Compliance and Marketing.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:   

• Communicates and collaborates across the organization with cross-functional teams such as Technology, Marketing, Sales, Public Relations, Enterprise Risk, data and analytics organizations, technologists, business and finance leads to ensure the best outcome. 

• Translates business, consumer and end-user needs into products, services, and experiences that solve needs and deliver value. Leverages desirability, viability, feasibility and build/buy/partner frameworks in the development of solutions.  

• Working with key business partners, identifies digital product vision and feature roadmap, accordingly. 

• Manages solution discovery process, including development and execution of the learning plan through primary and secondary research, rapid prototyping, MVP development and in in-market experimentation and iteration.  

• Ensures learning plan is aligned with intended business outcomes, has set KPIs and leading/lagging indicators and that actual results are measured and compared to plan to facilitate pivots and decision-making. 

• Partners with User Experience (UX) to align on customer usability of solution, User Interface design, and user research efforts to gain customer validation and make adjustments to solutions based on results. 

• Prioritizes and leads solution development by directing the agile development team in alignment with the developed roadmap.