Consultant, Business Insights (Personal Lines Business Insights Dev and Executio

This opening can be filled in a remote/work-from-home (WFH) capacity or in one of our offices.

This role will primarily support Auto Insurance data, reporting, and analytical needs for the P&C Personal Lines organization.

Candidates must possess the following skills/experience:

• Extensive knowledge of – ideally experience from within – Personal Lines Product, Underwriting, and/or Claims
• SQL
• Data visualization and business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Power BI

Proficiency with Python, R, Java, or other similar programming languages is especially ideal but not required.

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

Job Description Summary

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 company as assigned. Responsible for building business intelligence applications using R/Python/SQL/SAS/Tableau.

• Manages special projects and serves as an analytic consultant and contact for team members and associates outside the department.

• Serves as a consultant and subject matter expert for business areas during the intake and prioritization of data, reporting, analysis, and advanced analytics work

• Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives.

• May be responsible for preparation of reports and use of information systems, software and related sources of information. Also, may be responsible for training other users on report preparation and data base access and supporting the research, analysis and presentation of information.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Director/Associate Vice President and does not have direct reports.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in data or business analytics , computer science, management information, business, mathematics or related field with post-graduate studies preferred

Experience: Typically, eight or more years of experience in data extraction, data manipulation, analysis, and data visualization. Experience with advanced statistical techniques such as business intelligence. Detailed experience with data-extraction problem solving; working with large structured and unstructured data sets and databases to build understandable and relevant analyses. Professional experience in insurance, financial services or a related industry preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:

In-depth knowledge of business policies and procedures, customer service concepts and practices. Sophisticated understanding of creating and maintaining ad hoc and standard analysis, including data visualization, predictive modeling and business intelligence tools. Working knowledge to conduct extraction of data for functional and operational analysis and modeling. Strong communication skills for interactions with others. Ability to understand business processes and the data produced by them. Ability to understand functional and operational measurement needs, analyze data requests and interpret and translate business problems into solutions. Ability to work under tight time constraints. Capable of developing distinctive and understandable data visualizations.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence. Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values:

Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Occasional travel, nonstandard or extended work may be required based on project needs.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision,life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer,click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

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