Sr Consultant, Delivery Leader

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Mondays & Wednesdays. Position Summary The Sr Consultant, Delivery Leader is a senior delivery leadership role within Cyber Platform Services responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of large, complex workstreams across cybersecurity platforms, services, and enabling capabilities. This role partners closely with CPS leaders, product owners, architects, and business and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and resilient outcomes that protect Nationwide’s critical assets and support business growth. This leader operates across a diverse cyber platform environment that includes cloud security engineering, data and platform security, identity and access management, customer identity governance services, data management and governance, and cybersecurity edge capabilities. The role requires strong executive presence, clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to lead through changing priorities, cross-functional dependencies, operational complexity, and high-visibility reporting needs. Job Description Summary If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you! As a Delivery Leader you’ll be responsible for delivering value and outcomes. Delivery leaders are encouraged to have an end-to-end vantage point on delivery, manage dependencies, remove blockers, engage partners, manage financials, improve vendor relationships, and enable an iterative delivery of value. You will need to keep pace with software delivery and organizational change methods and tools. Delivery leaders should also understand relevant Agile/Lean/DevOps tools and techniques.

Requirements

Proven experience leading large or highly complex delivery efforts with multiple workstreams, significant stakeholder coordination, and executive-level visibility.
Strong executive presence and excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Ability to understand strategy, translate it into execution, and manage changing priorities across complex team structures.
Experience supporting cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform, or enterprise technology delivery efforts, ideally in one or more areas such as cloud security, IAM, data protection, platform security, or edge security.
Strong financial acumen, including experience with delivery financials, forecasting, budgeting, business case support, or related oversight.
Experience with vendor management, including contracts, statements of work, escalations, renewals, and invoice or forecast oversight.
Experience using core delivery tools and practices such as Jira, dashboards, dependency management, and delivery health reporting; familiarity with Planview or similar portfolio tooling is beneficial.
Demonstrated strength in iterative delivery, process improvement, and helping teams mature toward product-oriented delivery models.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments while maintaining accountability, momentum, and strong stakeholder alignment.
Ten or more years of experience in technology or related field.
Five years demonstrated proficiency in delivering outcomes/projects.
Awareness of emerging technologies and/or industry trends.
Ability to make decisions and recommendations.
Aptitude to influence, establish relationships and set priorities.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with all levels of associates, senior management and/or vendors.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Planview or similar portfolio tooling is beneficial.
Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Technology certifications or PMI, SAFE, Agile or Lean designations are encouraged.
Undergraduate studies (bachelor’s degree preferred) in management information systems, engineering, math, computer science, data analytics or comparable experience and education strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end management of assigned workstreams across Cyber Platform Services products, platforms, and strategic initiatives.
Partner with CPS leaders, product owners, architects, and business or technology stakeholders to deliver expected business outcomes tied to each workstream.
Drive execution across cyber platform domains such as cloud security, identity and access management, customer identity governance, data and platform security, data governance, and cybersecurity edge services.
Manage 30/60/90 day commitments, milestones, dependencies, and coordination across cross-functional teams supporting security platform delivery and operational outcomes.
Track, communicate, and drive mitigation of risks, issues, scope changes, decisions, and action items, including dependencies that impact security posture, platform resiliency, compliance, or delivery timing.
Lead status, health, financial, and value-delivery reporting for key stakeholders, including KPI and OKR-oriented reporting where appropriate.
Support executive messaging, portfolio health tracking, and operational reviews in close partnership with CPS leadership and S&I strategy and planning leaders.
Coordinate delivery across product, engineering, operations, architecture, and vendor teams to improve adoption, stability, and maturity of cyber platforms and services.
Help align delivery plans to broader CPS priorities, including platform modernization, service resiliency, risk reduction, and scalable product-oriented ways of working.
Manage vendor relationships and provide oversight for contract negotiations, statement of work development, forecasting, invoicing, and escalation management for CPS-aligned services and platforms.
Manage and consult on workstream financials, with strong business and financial acumen related to budgets, forecasts, delivery tradeoffs, and value realization.
Help standardize delivery practices and tool usage, including Jira-based workflow, dashboards, delivery health reporting, and project-to-product operating models.
Provide thought leadership, mentorship, and capability uplift across the delivery organization, not only within an assigned effort.
Accountable for the delivery of expected business outcomes, realization of benefits as outlined in the business case, drives incremental value, drives incremental planning, and drives dependency scope definition.
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.
Responsible for the communication, critical issues, visibility, OCM guidance to deliver business outcomes.
Managers the facilitation of contract negotiations, statement of work development and ensures our vendors are making expected progress.
Drives the prioritization of deliverables, manages complex issues/risks, governs dependencies.
Oversees the delivery of status/health reports to drive value delivery tracking (ex: KPIs), optimizes the flow of value and ensures demand/capacity is managed.
Manages and consults on complex and/or project/product financials.
Serves as the top professional to others around delivering business outcomes, benefit realization, agile delivery, and Lean.
May preform 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