Consultant, Delivery Leader

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

1d•$118,000 - $222,000•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 is part of a team responsible for driving business outcomes for a critical enterprise data asset. The Delivery Leader will oversee work that supports, maintains, and enhances the asset’s business capabilities. Success requires the ability to quickly integrate with the team, build trusted relationships, manage multiple complex workstreams, and apply strong project management rigor within a hybrid project/product environment. This role plays a key “connector” function - linking projects to execution across teams and business leads, ensuring work is sequenced, understood, and delivered in a way that supports broader business objectives. The Delivery Leader is expected to ask hard questions, pressure‑test assumptions and financials, and call out when things don’t appear reasonable. 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. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you! 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

Proven experience leading complex IT initiatives involving diverse business and technology teams.
Comfortable operating in waterfall, agile, and hybrid delivery models.
Able to “connect the dots” across initiatives, financials, data, and stakeholders—translating projects into clear delivery plans and proactively surfacing dependencies, risks, and integration points for line and business leads, and raising flags when pieces don’t line up.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to establish trust quickly across teams.
Builds a cohesive, day‑to‑day working relationship with the Agile Lead, SEPM, and Product Owner to stay aligned on scope, priorities, and delivery.
Able to identify priorities in a fast-moving environment and drive initiatives to completion with minimal guidance, consistently anticipating what is needed next.
Proactively spots gaps, risks, and opportunities, brings forward clear options and recommendations, and drives aligned decisions and execution with limited direction.
Skilled in engaging stakeholders, communicating progress, resolving issues, and aligning efforts to business goals within a complex, matrixed organization.
Confident using digital tools and technologies to streamline work and collaborate effectively, including in remote settings, and able to understand how Nationwide’s delivery process flows and systems integrate across key touchpoints.
Capable of leading effective meetings and working sessions that achieve objectives and drives clear decisions and owners.
Adept at managing multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring timelines, budgets, and expectations are met, while challenging unrealistic dates or resource assumptions.
Brings solid project leadership experience while remaining open to learning and adapting to Nationwide’s delivery practices.
Able to support line and business leads in delivery while also providing healthy challenge and being willing to say “no” or “not yet” with clear rationale.
Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making skills, including analyzing data, identifying trends, and informing recommendations.
Comfortable sanity‑checking financials, estimates, and metrics and calling out when numbers or processes don’t appear reasonable - digging into root causes and ensuring resolution.
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.

Nice To Haves

Technology certifications or PMI, SAFE, Agile or Lean designations are encouraged.
Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

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