Consultant, Technology Innovation Analyst
About The Position
Nationwide Commercial IT is seeking a Consultant, Technology Innovation Analyst (TIA) to help shape the future of our Small Commercial and Middle Market segments. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of business strategy and technology execution, where you’ll turn big ideas into actionable, value-driven solutions. As a TIA, you won’t just support delivery—you’ll define it. You’ll work alongside business and technology leaders to translate complex business needs into clear, fundable initiatives, drive elaboration, estimation, and prioritization practices, influence investment decisions and product direction, and solve meaningful challenges with innovative technology solutions. Your work will directly contribute to transforming how we operate, compete, and deliver value to our customers. As a Technology Innovation Analyst, you will assist Technology Strategy and Planning activities by analyzing technology trends, including enterprise architecture, technology portfolio dimensions, and benchmark and peer analysis. You’ll assess the impact of emerging technical and business trends on future technology needs and capabilities. You’ll also be expected to manage and grow the development of thought leadership articles, point-of-view papers, new ideas and concepts specifically through bringing technologies together that could help Nationwide differentiate and create value. Additionally, you’ll define and evolve concepts aligned to Nationwide’s technology innovation portfolio. You may serve as a lead to cross-functional teams focused on adjacent and transformational innovation.
Requirements
- Strong skills in requirements definition, backlog management, and facilitation
- Ability to think strategically while executing tactically
- Proven ability to work across business and IT boundaries
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- A passion for innovation, problem-solving, and continuous improvement
- Eight to ten years of experience delivering technology-enabled business solutions and transformational change across industries, platforms and lines of businesses within the insurance and/or financial services industries or equivalent experience as a management consultant for a mid-to-top-tier consulting firm (i.e., Accenture, Deloitte, etc.).
- Wide career experience as a consultant in operations or within proximity to operations, with a 30:70 ratio of business to technology experience, working with the technology lifecycle, including delivery and cost of ownership and experience developing roadmaps and business cases and executing projects through to completion.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, knowledge of planning.
- Ability to influence, build relationships, negotiate and set priorities needed.
- Solid executive presence.
Nice To Haves
- Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Responsibilities
- Defines, maintains, adapts and shares Technology innovations.
- Explores industry for technology developments that are relevant for Nationwide’s business; identifies innovation opportunities and follows through to develop the ideas in collaboration with business partners and external organizations.
- 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.
- Provides portfolio support of Technology innovation efforts in partnership with other Nationwide teams engaged in innovation-related activities.
- Partners with others to ensure the Technology strategy aligns with the business strategy.
- Quantifies benefits and develops business cases for transformation efforts and/or innovation initiatives.
- Evaluates and prioritizes business requests, determining appropriate course of action (e.g., adjusts existing roadmaps, delivery sequencing, iterative planning efforts or aligns delivery through small project and/or enhancement efforts).
- Executes medium to low complexity projects that result in recommendations to change business processes through the application of technologies and more efficient use of resources.
- Plans engagements focused on building recommendations and business cases.
- Provides consultation on Nationwide Technology strategic planning efforts, gathers high-level business requirements and defines scope during initial discovery by facilitating large group/cross-functional sessions with partners.
- Maintains a working knowledge of multiple business functions and initiatives to identify where conflicts/synergies exist between technologies and business functions.
- Assists in managing initial vendor relationships and maintains a forward-looking view of vendor direction.
- Works with vendors to understand whether vendor products will meet business and/or Technology requirements.
- Executes the decomposition of business strategic plans into outcomes, values and capabilities.
- Plans and collaborates with business experts to conduct moderate-to-complex analysis and build artifacts that lead to deliverables.
- Determines how changes in business and technology strategy may impact roadmaps and updates roadmaps accordingly.
- 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
Education Level
Associate degree
