Consultant, Product - Financial Services - Global Equities - Fixed Income
About The Position
Our work is essential to helping Nationwide build future capabilities to serve customer needs. Keeping existing products relevant and marketable and building new products takes research, critical thinking, practicality, and collaboration. If you enjoy gathering input and information, working independently and on a team and creating innovative solutions for customers, we want to know more about you! As a Consultant, you'll lead the initiation, development, and maintenance of products with respect to design, profitability, and growth. We'll count on you to collect information and make recommendations regarding overall corporate objectives, field operations and staff services.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in finance, economics, marketing, or related field preferred.
- Graduate degree desired.
- Industry designations (e.g., CPCU, ARM, CLU, FLMI, ChFC, CFP, NASD, etc.) preferred.
- Typically, eight years of relevant experience in a related industry.
- Demonstrated strategic decision making.
- Proficiency in the use of analytic tools, plans pricing and products.
- Ability to drive for results, navigate ambiguity and to understand strategic objectives.
- Ability to lead high profile projects.
- Ability to creatively present ideas in written form and through presentations.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
- Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.
- Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.
Nice To Haves
- Current or prior experience as an associate within Nationwide’s Investment Management Group (IMG) is highly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a technical professional in the analysis of pricing and design features, product, and profitability.
- Actively finds opportunities for improvement and makes solution recommendations.
- Provides support and guidance related to product design and management.
- Provides high level, strategic input on key initiatives addressing product strategy and profitability objectives.
- Participates and may lead new business development and implementation projects.
- Works with Product Directors to predict needs and issues.
- Acts as a resource to Product Directors.
- Reacts appropriately to market conditions.
- Identifies and evaluates business opportunities.
- Partners with leadership to provide a regular assessment of financial results and recommendations to increase future profitability.
- Investigates and assists in development of new tools and technology to improve product performance.
- Reviews and analyzes highly technical and sophisticated market information on benchmark competitors.
- Identifies options to keep products market-competitive.
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
