Consultant Business Insights

Role Description

If you’re passionate about helping people protect what matters most to them at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, 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 and partners are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This Consultant, Business Insights role will sit within Programs Operations (E&S/Specialty) and be the primary analytics and performance partner to Programs underwriting leadership.

In addition to the core responsibilities, this role will:

• Design and govern a cohesive Programs underwriting metrics framework, with emphasis on leading indicators.
• Serve as a Federato and AI power user, surfacing portfolio insights, standardizing dashboards and executive views, and ensuring consistent metrics and definitions (e.g., retention, rate, new business growth, profitability) across the team.
• Partner with DDS, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to align on data sources, metric definitions, and reporting capabilities, reducing one-off report builds and elevating data-driven decision making across the broader organization.

As a Consultant, Business Insights, you’ll extract data to obtain knowledge and insights, manipulate internal and external data through R/SAS/SQL/Python, perform diagnostic and inferential analysis, investigate complex business concerns using data and statistical techniques, apply analysis or visualization techniques, build forecasts and/or projections of possible business futures and benefits, and communicate key findings to business partners. Your focus will be to maximize insight gained from internal and external data to ensure that business partners are making decisions in an optimally informed way.

Qualifications

• Underwriting analytics or portfolio/program management experience in commercial P&C, ideally E&S/Specialty; commercial underwriting experience preferred.
• Proven ability to use underwriting results and leading performance indicators to inform business decisions.
• Advanced SQL skills, including PostgreSQL and standard SQL; hands-on experience with dashboard/BI tools (e.g., Tableau or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, setting standards for metrics and analytics usage across an underwriting organization.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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