Sr Consultant, Business Insights (Property & Casualty Insurance - Commercial, Excess & Surplus and Specialty Property)

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

20h•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Consultant, Business Insights – CLESS Property plays a critical role in enabling profitable growth and portfolio optimization across the Commercial, E&S and Specialty Lines (CLESS) Property business at Nationwide Insurance. This role partners closely with Nationwide's Property team including the Center of Excellence (COE), Underwriting leadership, and Claims leadership to deliver actionable insights that shape strategy, underwriting execution, and risk selection. This role requires the ability to translate complex data into clear business insights and influence decision-making across technical and non-technical stakeholders. The most ideal candidate brings experience and business acumen from working directly in or with Property & Casualty Insurance Underwriting, specifically Commercial, Specialty and/or Excess & Surplus Lines Property, and is equally comfortable performing hands-on analysis as they are serving as a trusted strategic advisor. Higher education with an emphasis in Business Analytics, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science is especially helpful. We are a versatile group of individuals, working together to meet the needs of our customers. We value knowledge, analytical aptitude and collaboration. If you thrive in a busy, engaging work environment, we want to know more about you! As a Senior Consultant, you'll structure and lead large financial and operational measurement projects across one or more business units and effectively synthesize measurement results to improve business outcomes. You'll be responsible for growing and evolving the business partner relationship and service management profession to maximize effectiveness and may be responsible for the business unit financial and operational measurement strategy or project portfolio.

Requirements

Proficiency with Power BI and/or Tableau
Proficiency with Databricks and/or Snowflake
Experience and business acumen from working directly in or with Property & Casualty Insurance Underwriting, specifically Commercial, Specialty and/or Excess & Surplus Lines Property
Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information, business, mathematics or related field
Typically, 10 or more years of experience in data visualization, financial and operational measurement and data extraction queries.
Detailed experience with data extraction problem solving; working with large structured and unstructured data sets and databases to create understandable and relevant measures.
Sophisticated understanding of and working knowledge to build and maintain ad hoc and standard reports, including data visualization and business intelligence tools.
Advanced knowledge on conducting data management and extraction of data for functional and operational measurement.
Strong communication skills for interactions with others.
Ability to understand functional and operational measurement needs, analyze data requests and interpret business problems into solutions.
Ability to work under tight time constraints.
Capable of developing distinctive and understandable data visualizations.

Nice To Haves

Post-graduate studies preferred.
Professional experience in insurance, financial services or a related industry preferred.
Higher education with an emphasis in Business Analytics, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science is especially helpful.

Responsibilities

Builds and maintains relationships and serves as trusted business advisor to leaders, clients, internal risk partners and other stakeholders.
Creates partnerships across the company to ensure methodologies and assumptions used are aligned with corporate practices.
Crafts, packages and communicates financial and operational measurement work by developing new statistical and visual solutions.
Participates in the development of scope, risk/control matrix, project timelines and assignments.
Owns the development of financial and operational measurement strategies for the business unit.
Consults with business leaders to understand, align and deliver measurement work that supports business objectives and priorities.
Builds business intelligence applications using statistical, database and/or general programming languages and tools.
Uses technology for data management, report automation and/or ad hoc reporting for end users.
Prepares reports and uses information systems, software and related sources of information.
Trains other users on report preparation and database access.
Consults on monitoring external sources, crafting custom reports, compiling and summarizing information, producing supporting documentation and exhibits and verification of information received from external sources.
Manages special projects and serves as data/technical lead and contact for team members and associates from other areas of the company.
Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.