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.

Job Description Summary

We are a versatile group of individuals, working together to meet the needs of our customers. We value knowledge, analytical aptitude, and collaboration. If you thrive in a busy, engaging work environment, we want to know more about you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Applies substantive business expertise to render insights and forecast/project on extracted data sets to craft, package and communicate actionable 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.
• Leverages statistical inferencing when conducting analysis and 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.
• May be responsible for training other users on report preparation and database access and supporting the research, analysis, and presentation of information.
• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

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

Requirements

• 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.

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.