Consultant, Delivery Leader

Nationwide Mutual Insurance • Columbus, OH

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be 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 supports the Personal Lines Solution BSA, which employs a product-centric approach. This role requires helping PLS partners leverage and enjoy the benefits of our core platform to drive business value for Nationwide and our members. If you love bringing teams together to solve complex technical problems, thinking, and delivering Epics in unconventional ways, then this is for you. If you love lean Agile software delivery and breaking down silos, then this is for you. If you are organized, can keep track of complex dependencies, manage a large budget, and work with a large and varied group, then this is for you. If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. As a Delivery Leader you’ll be responsible for delivering value and outcomes. Delivery leaders are expected to have an end-to-end vantage point on delivery, manage dependencies, remove blockers, engage partners, manage financials, maximize vendor relationships, and enable an iterative delivery of value. You will need to keep pace with software delivery and organizational change methods and tools. Delivery leaders should also understand relevant Financial and Agile/Lean/DevOps tools and techniques.

Requirements

• Undergraduate studies (bachelor’s degree preferred) in management information systems, engineering, math, computer science, data analytics or comparable experience and education strongly preferred.
• Six or more years of experience in technology or related field.
• Three years demonstrated proficiency in delivering outcomes/projects.
• Awareness of emerging technologies and/or industry trends.
• Ability to make decisions and recommendations.
• Aptitude to influence, establish relationships and set priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with all levels of associates, senior management and/or vendors.
• Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
• Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Nice To Haves

• Technology certifications or PMI, SAFE, Agile or Lean designations are encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Drives the End to End delivery of expected business outcomes, realization of benefits as outlined in the business case, drives incremental value, drives incremental planning, and drives dependency scope definition.
• Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Responsible for the communication, critical issues, visibility, change management guidance to deliver business outcomes.
• Key contributor in the facilitation of contract negotiations, statement of work development and vendor oversight toward expected goals.
• Drives the prioritization of deliverables, handles moderate to complex issues/risks, governs dependencies.
• Is responsible for the delivery of status/health reports to drive value delivery tracking (ex: KPIs), optimizes the flow of value and ensures demand/capacity is handled.
• Works with medium to large project/product financials.
• Serves as a professional to others around delivering business outcomes, benefit realization, agile delivery, and Lean.
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level