Actuarial Sr Consultant, General Liability Pricing (Agribusiness & E&S) - REMOTE

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

1d•Remote

About The Position

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, the opportunities are endless! Let Nationwide help create your career journey! 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. Actuarial Sr Consultant, General Liability Pricing (Agribusiness & E&S) - REMOTE If you’re a P&C actuarial professional looking to own a portfolio, influence general liability pricing strategy, and work with modern tools in a highly collaborative environment, this role is designed for you. Own a High-Impact Portfolio Take lead actuarial responsibility for one of Nationwide’s portfolios, driving pricing strategy for a complex, growing book of business. Serve as the primary actuarial contact and spokesperson for your portfolio with underwriting, product, finance, reserving, and leadership partners. Translate complex pricing analysis into clear recommendations that shape rate actions, underwriting strategy, and overall profitability. Modern Tools, Modern Mindset Step into a post-modernization actuarial environment where we’ve invested in better data, tools, and processes to support deeper portfolio analytics. Bring fresh ideas and challenge “we’ve always done it this way” thinking—this team is actively re-evaluating methodologies and looking for smarter, more efficient ways to price and manage risk. Use (or grow into) modern analytics tools like Databricks, Python, SQL, R, and advanced Excel to build, refine, and automate pricing analyses and dashboards. Leadership Exposure & Career Growth Act as the face of pricing for your portfolio—leading discussions, presenting results, and framing the “so what” for senior leaders and cross-functional partners. Gain broad visibility across underwriting, product, finance, reserving, and other actuarial teams, positioning this role as a strong stepping stone toward future actuarial leadership. Partner with an experienced associate who supports day-to-day tasks, freeing you up to focus on higher-level analytics, storytelling, and strategy. Filings Experience on Admitted Business Work on an admitted agribusiness portfolio, partnering closely with a dedicated filings team on rate filings and Department of Insurance (DOI) interactions. Help shape and support filings—providing actuarial expertise, rate indications, and technical rationale—without owning every filings detail alone. Ideal for GL pricing actuaries who either already have filings experience or are interested in building that capability in a supported, collaborative way. Collaborative, Flexible Work Environment (Remote Eligible) Join a highly collaborative, mostly remote team—we are open to candidates across the United States and experienced in working virtually across locations and time zones. Work in a culture that feels “startup-like” within a large, stable company: open to experimentation, continuous improvement, and new perspectives. Benefit from strong cross-functional partnerships and a supportive environment that values learning, innovation, and shared problem-solving. Our Property and Casualty (P&C) Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. If this sounds like a place you could thrive, then we want to know more about you! As an Actuarial Sr Consultant, you’ll need to have detailed familiarity with business operations, systems, and actuarial methodologies. We’ll count on you to be adept at complex actuarial techniques and work independently to combine advanced actuarial and business knowledge to provide high-level analysis. Additionally, you’ll have expertise to provide consultation and recommendations on deliverables and maintain detailed documentation of actuarial models and analyses. You’ll work independently and may lead others.

Requirements

P&C actuarial pricing experience in general liability or related commercial lines, ideally with exposure to agribusiness, E&S, or other specialty portfolios.
Progress toward or completion of ACAS/FCAS; we welcome strong near-ACAS candidates with relevant GL pricing experience.
Proven analytical and communication skills, with a track record of turning data into clear business stories and influencing decisions.
Comfort working in an evolving environment, owning outcomes, and proactively seeking better ways to price, analyze, and manage complex books of business.
Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis.
Generally attained ACAS and is working towards FCAS or recently attained FCAS.
Generally, six or more years of actuarial experience.
Detailed knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases.
Proficient in Microsoft Office products, analytical software and programming languages.
Should have basic competencies including command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective and accounting.
Should have highly-developed competencies in business understanding, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, and learning ability.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to agribusiness, E&S, or other specialty portfolios.
Filings experience on Admitted Business.
Interested in building filings capability in a supported, collaborative way.

Responsibilities

Take lead actuarial responsibility for one of Nationwide’s portfolios, driving pricing strategy for a complex, growing book of business.
Serve as the primary actuarial contact and spokesperson for your portfolio with underwriting, product, finance, reserving, and leadership partners.
Translate complex pricing analysis into clear recommendations that shape rate actions, underwriting strategy, and overall profitability.
Use modern analytics tools like Databricks, Python, SQL, R, and advanced Excel to build, refine, and automate pricing analyses and dashboards.
Act as the face of pricing for your portfolio—leading discussions, presenting results, and framing the “so what” for senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
Gain broad visibility across underwriting, product, finance, reserving, and other actuarial teams.
Partner with an experienced associate who supports day-to-day tasks, freeing you up to focus on higher-level analytics, storytelling, and strategy.
Work on an admitted agribusiness portfolio, partnering closely with a dedicated filings team on rate filings and Department of Insurance (DOI) interactions.
Help shape and support filings—providing actuarial expertise, rate indications, and technical rationale.
Acts as a technical expert of actuarial methodologies allowing the ability to source and manipulate data within standard requirements.
Conducts complex analyses, adhering to actuarial standards, by selecting appropriate data sources, making assumptions, recognizing considerations, and developing recommendations.
Resolves unreasonable results/non-optimal solutions using experience and professional judgment.
Begins using results to influence decisions at a higher level.
Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources, and considerations in an organized fashion.
Prepares and presents actuarial findings and documents that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the senior Actuarial leadership level.
May professionally represent company's position with regulators, auditors, and external vendors.
Develops cross functional work plans and ensures accurate work product is delivered.
Leads cross functional peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work, and drive innovation.
Builds business relationships and leads cross functional communication with team members, customers, and business partners.
Leads onboarding and training for new associates on standard work processes.
Assists in creating new training materials.
Applies data mining techniques used to identify new relationships in data and make recommendations based on findings.
Has expert ability or knowledge of modeling, validation, and predictive modeling.
Explores the use of new software packages and makes recommendations.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.