Associate Product Manager- Pet

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.

Join Nationwide's Pet Insurance team as an Associate Product Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of pet insurance products. This position offers a unique opportunity to leverage your insurance product management expertise while incorporating advanced analytical skills and coding knowledge. You'll be at the forefront of driving product performance, profitability, and strategic initiatives, ensuring our products meet the evolving needs of our customers and the market.

Ideal Skills and Capabilities

• Insurance Product Management Expertise: Extensive background in insurance product management, with a deep understanding of commercial lines insurance products, pricing architecture, and state regulations.
• Analytical Proficiency: Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis, trend analysis, and competitor data. Proficiency in analytical tools, relational databases, data visualization techniques, and statistical software.
• Technical Skills: Knowledge of coding languages such as R or SQL to support data analysis and product management tasks.
• Financial Acumen: Solid understanding of financials, product profitability, business mix, and forecasting performance.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop detailed product plans to achieve long- and short-term financial objectives, influence regional strategy, and implement strategic decisions in alignment with market strategies.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively present information, influence internal and external partners, and translate complex data into understandable communications.
• Project Management: Ability to manage timelines, coordinate project work, and handle multiple priorities to ensure timely completion of key processes.
• Relationship Building: Proactively build and strengthen relationships with peers, internal and external partners, and participate in cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
• Continuous Learning: Commitment to ongoing education and professional development to increase personal, professional, and technical knowledge and skills.

(Internal Use Only: F3 Pay Band)

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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 an Associate Product Manager, you'll be responsible for positioning products for profitable growth within states that are generally smaller or less complex. You may have opportunities to work on a portion of a more sophisticated state in support of Product Manager. Work will include implementing processes related to financial planning, rate reviews, market development and communication. You'll support regional and corporate objectives through ongoing analysis and monitoring of results to ensure alignment to objectives.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Captures information from multiple internal and external sources according to company guidelines, including competitor filings to perform analysis. May require gathering verbal 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.

• Analyzes product performance and proactively finds opportunities at state, line of business and agency level. Identifies and analyzes key product, performance and profitability drivers