Specialist, Pet Pricing

Nationwide Mutual Insurance • Columbus, OH

5d • Remote

About The Position

Join Nationwide’s Pet business unit as an Actuarial Specialist - Pet Pricing and help us protect what matters most—our customers’ beloved pets. In this role, you’ll combine analytical expertise with innovative thinking to design and price products that deliver real value to pet owners. Our team is collaborative, forward-thinking, and passionate about creating solutions that make pet insurance accessible and reliable. If you’re looking for a role where your work directly impacts customer satisfaction and business success, this is the place for you. Our Nationwide Financial (NF) Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. As an Actuarial Specialist, you’ll gain a more detailed knowledge of our actuarial functions for our NF products. You’ll also perform increasingly sophisticated mathematical and quantitative actuarial analyses critical to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide to our customers. This position has the opportunity to be a part of the NF Actuarial Rotation Program, which will give you the potential opportunity to work on various actuarial, analytics, and risk management teams to learn and develop across different actuarial functions. Should you choose to participate in the program, you will participate in two to three rotations of one year each. Full program details will be provided to you upon your start date.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, or a related field.
• Exam progress toward ACAS designation
• 1-3 years of actuarial experience, ideally in P&C insurance
• Strong technical skills in actuarial software, Microsoft Office (including VBA), and programming languages like R, Python, or SQL.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment.
• Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, or similar background requiring modeling, programming, or quantitative analysis.
• Generally, has passed four or more actuarial exams and is actively enrolled into the Actuarial Development Program.
• Typically, two years of actuarial experience.
• General knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products (including VBA within Access and Excel), analytical software (such as tableau) and programming languages.
• Should have basic competencies, including business understanding, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results and learning ability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain actuarial models that guide pricing, valuation, and financial projections for pet insurance products.
• Analyze complex data to uncover trends, assess risk, and support strategic decisions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop new products and ensure competitive pricing.
• Prepare clear, actionable insights and recommendations for leadership to drive business growth.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation through peer reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Compiles, categorizes, and analyzes data with limited supervision.
• Builds testing tools, analysis of product calculations and product illustrations.
• Aids in creating, maintaining, and executing of Actuarial, Projection & Valuation Models.
• Participates in pricing and implementation for products.
• Developing skills to analyze risk for lines of business.
• Aids in valuation/reserving under multiple accounting regimes (statutory, GAAP, and tax) for products.
• Assists and supports analysis and support of reinsurance opportunities.
• Supports the creation of documentation and presentations for leadership.
• Assists with onboarding and training new associates on standard work processes.
• 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: Entry Level