Sr Consultant, Corp Strategy (Property & Casualty)

If you're passionate about helping a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales drive their strategy forward through innovative product development and advancing strategic partnerships to protect customers, 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.

This role provides strategic support and advisory at the Property & Casualty group level. It centers on turning business performance, customer insights, and leadership perspectives into clear updates, presentations, and recommendations for senior leaders. It also includes leading special projects to explore new strategic opportunities across Property & Casualty. The work requires close coordination across teams to gather input, conduct outside research, synthesize recommendations, align messaging, and ensure materials are accurate, relevant, and useful for decision-making. It also contributes to longer-term strategic priorities tied to growth, underwriting, customer experience, and the use of artificial intelligence to improve how the business serves customers and partners.

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

Job Description Summary
At Nationwide, the Office of Corporate Strategy exists to help executive leadership across our businesses - Property Casualty, Financial Services and Corporate Development - approach strategic decision-making to decide how to build the most value for the company in a way that supports Nationwide's mission and vision. If you are a big-picture thinker and a consultant at heart, we want to know more about you!

As a Senior Consultant, you'll advise and guide Nationwide executives through the industry's most critical challenges. It's the management consulting experience, without the travel! As an engagement manager to the business, you'll lead assignments with profit & loss owners and key parties involved that span the full breadth of Nationwide's business portfolio. Success will depend on your ability to forge positive relationships, distill results oriented strategies out of complex issues and facilitate decisions with support from a group of high-performing professionals. This opportunity allows you to be part of the team at the forefront, driving impactful and positive change at Nationwide.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities :

• Partners with business leaders to identify, evaluate and pursue strategic opportunities, ranging from organic growth to new business line development to operating model redesign
• Leads strategic projects for the Office of the CEO (OCEO), Management Committee, or business unit leadership teams to successfully realize those opportunities. For each strategy, determines where we will play, how we will win, and what decisions or trade-offs we must make.
• Organizes, facilitates and leads project teams of relevant parties involved from across Nationwide's corporate and business unit functions to drive business results.
• Advises and coordinates the corporate or business level strategy planning process, which produces a three-year corporate and/or business unit strategic plan tied to financial implications.
• Establishes and implements mechanisms to translate strategic plans into business unit operational plans.
• Interprets financial, statistical and other data to observe the impact and efficacy of Nationwide's defined strategies
• Coordinates the consultation, preparation and communication of evaluation findings and recommendations to all levels of management, including the Board of Directors, OCEO, Strategy leadership team and business unit leadership teams
• Establishes and maintains external relationships with other industry specialists and thought leaders to facilitate internal innovation and strategic vision.
• Engages in continuous improvement of the department, self and others. Actively develops associates in problem solving and communication skills and other areas of thought leadership, collaboration and professional expertise.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Associate Vice President or Vice President, Strategic Planning. Typically, an individual contributor; may have opportunity to lead teams of two to 15 people.

Typical Skills and Experiences :


Education: Demonstrated academic success. MBA or equivalent is preferred. Proven knowledge of strategy planning, project management tools, concepts, and methodologies.

Experience: Significant leadership experience with strategic projects, from either a top tier consulting firm or a Fortune 100 strategy planning group. Proven ability to use business and industry knowledge. Solid understanding of the insurance industry preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Must have excellent problem-solving skills including the ability to structure problems, identifies core issues, articulate problem statements, lead problem solving discussions, and separate issues into discrete work streams that result in solutions.

Demonstrated competency in clearly presenting thoughts, ideas and concepts both verbally in individual and group settings and in writing. Must demonstrate ability to provide impactful advice/solutions to parties involved and business partners and builds effective partnerships with business partners ensuring priorities are aligned. Demonstrated competency in utilization of approaches/tools customary to strategy professionals and demonstrates key areas of effective project management such as scope definition, time management, cost analysis, human resources management, risk assessment and management. Able to work and handle large, complex projects. Ability to lead and develop engaged, high performing project teams.

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 Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions :


Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)


Working Conditions : Normal Office Environment. Some travel may be required.

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.

We currently anticipate accepting applications until 06/12/2026. However, we encourage early submissions, as the posting may close sooner if a strong candidate slate is identified before the deadline.

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.

This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states.

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NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Sr Consultant, Corporate Strategy : $149,000.00-$262,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Sr Consultant, Corporate Strategy : $149,000.00 - $223,000.00