Consultant, Business Insights (ALO Operational Excellence) HYBRID

Nationwide•Grandview Heights, OH

13h•$108,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Consultant, Business Insights will support ALO’s evolving data strategy and help mature how the organization uses data, reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled insights to inform business decisions. This role will help introduce structure, improve consistency, and support prioritized reporting and analytics efforts across ALO. Working within ALO Operational Excellence, this individual will partner closely with Shared Services, Enterprise Data Governance, and operational leaders to strengthen reporting practices, align definitions and standards, and improve how insights are delivered to the business.

Requirements

Strong experience supporting analytics, business intelligence, reporting, or data strategy initiatives
Hands-on experience with data tools, dashboards, or analytics environments
Ability to translate complex data into clear business value and actionable insights
Experience helping build governance, standards, or scalable reporting frameworks
Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills
Ability to work effectively across business and technical teams in a highly matrixed environment
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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Snowflake, Dataiku, Power BI, and Power Apps
Background in AI implementation or leveraging AI within business processes
Prior experience in insurance, annuities, or life operations
Post-graduate studies preferred
Professional experience in insurance, financial services or a related industry preferred.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Responsibilities

Help shape and execute ALO’s approach to data utilization, analytics, dashboards, automation, and insight generation.
Identify opportunities to improve how data is used to inform operational and strategic decisions.
Support intake processes, prioritization routines, and governance practices that align reporting and analytics work to ALO and enterprise priorities.
Help create greater visibility and consistency across requests, initiatives, and deliverables.
Work with Shared Services, Data Governance, and enterprise analytics partners to promote aligned processes, terminology, data definitions, and reporting standards.
Build strong relationships across business and technical teams.
Develop, enhance, and deliver reporting, dashboards, and data visualizations that make complex information easier to understand and act on.
Help business partners turn data into practical insights and decisions.
Bring strong working knowledge of data, reporting, and analytics tools to contribute directly to work products, solve problems, and build credibility with technical and business stakeholders.
Explore and apply emerging tools, including AI-enabled capabilities, to improve decision-making, efficiency, and operational outcomes.
Support thoughtful adoption of new approaches that create measurable business value.
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.
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.
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.

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