Sr Consultant, Corp Strategy (NF)

Nationwide Mutual Insurance • Columbus, OH

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role provides strategic and advisory support for Nationwide Financial Services with a focus on Annuity and Investment Management Group. It focuses on turning business results, customer and advisor insights, and leadership perspectives into clear insights, strategies, and recommendations for senior leaders. The work requires the ability to use strategic frameworks and processes to gather data, align messaging, and ensure materials are accurate, relevant, and useful for decision-making. Ultimately, the role supports the creation of long-term strategic priorities, which include solution innovation, distribution expansion, customer and partner experience, and the use of artificial intelligence to improve how the business serves customers, advisors, and plan participants. This role can be worked hybrid from the Columbus, OH campus or remote based upon candidate location. At Nationwide, the Office of Corporate Strategy exists to help executive leadership across our businesses - Property Casualty, Financial Services and Corporate Development - approach strategic decision-making to decide how to build the most value for the company in a way that supports Nationwide’s mission and vision. As a Senior Consultant, you’ll advise and guide Nationwide executives through the industry’s most critical challenges. It’s the management consulting experience, without the travel! As an engagement manager to the business, you’ll lead assignments with profit & loss owners and key parties involved that span the full breadth of Nationwide’s business portfolio. Success will depend on your ability to forge positive relationships, distill results oriented strategies out of complex issues and facilitate decisions with support from a group of high-performing professionals. This opportunity allows you to be part of the team at the forefront, driving impactful and positive change at Nationwide.

Requirements

• Demonstrated academic success. MBA or equivalent is preferred.
• Proven knowledge of strategy planning, project management tools, concepts, and methodologies.
• Significant leadership experience with strategic projects, from either a top tier consulting firm or a Fortune 100 strategy planning group.
• Proven ability to use business and industry knowledge.
• Solid understanding of the insurance industry preferred.
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills including the ability to structure problems, identifies core issues, articulate problem statements, lead problem solving discussions, and separate issues into discrete work streams that result in solutions.
• Demonstrated competency in clearly presenting thoughts, ideas and concepts both verbally in individual and group settings and in writing.
• Must demonstrate ability to provide impactful advice/solutions to parties involved and business partners and builds effective partnerships with business partners ensuring priorities are aligned.
• Demonstrated competency in utilization of approaches/tools customary to strategy professionals and demonstrates key areas of effective project management such as scope definition, time management, cost analysis, human resources management, risk assessment and management.
• Able to work and handle large, complex projects.
• Ability to lead and develop engaged, high performing project teams.
• 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 Human Resources Business Partner.
• Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or equivalent is preferred.
• Solid understanding of the insurance industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partners with business leaders to identify, evaluate and pursue strategic opportunities, ranging from organic growth to new business line development to operating model redesign
• Leads strategic projects for the Office of the CEO (OCEO), Management Committee, or business unit leadership teams to successfully realize those opportunities. For each strategy, determines where we will play, how we will win, and what decisions or trade-offs we must make.
• Organizes, facilitates and leads project teams of relevant parties involved from across Nationwide’s corporate and business unit functions to drive business results.
• Advises and coordinates the corporate or business level strategy planning process, which produces a three-year corporate and/or business unit strategic plan tied to financial implications.
• Establishes and implements mechanisms to translate strategic plans into business unit operational plans.
• Interprets financial, statistical and other data to observe the impact and efficacy of Nationwide’s defined strategies
• Coordinates the consultation, preparation and communication of evaluation findings and recommendations to all levels of management, including the Board of Directors, OCEO, Strategy leadership team and business unit leadership teams
• Establishes and maintains external relationships with other industry specialists and thought leaders to facilitate internal innovation and strategic vision.
• Engages in continuous improvement of the department, self and others.
• Actively develops associates in problem solving and communication skills and other areas of thought leadership, collaboration and professional expertise.
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior