Sr Consultant, Voice of Customer Management

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

2d•$122,000 - $214,000•Hybrid

About The Position

If you're passionate about helping a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales drive their strategy forward through innovative product development and advancing strategic partnerships to protect customers, then Nationwide is the place for you! At Nationwide®, "on your side" goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we're looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. We are seeking a Senior Consultant with a proven track record of activating Voice of the Customer insights with business leaders to influence priorities, shape decisions, and drive measurable improvements in the customer experience, moving beyond reporting insights to partnering with the business to define actions, build alignment, and ensure feedback leads to meaningful change. They will also bring thought leadership in Voice of the Customer and customer research, helping evolve how we listen, analyze, and act on feedback across the enterprise through modern methodologies, innovative approaches, and best practices. The ideal candidate will connect customer signals to business strategy and operational execution while bringing forward-thinking ideas, emerging trends, and a future-forward point of view that helps the business stay customer driven and future ready. This role can be worked hybrid from the Columbus, OH campus or remote based upon candidate location. #LI-MS2 Job Description Summary Do you love mining data for insight that will propel an always improving customer experience? If you possess both strategic and analytic capabilities, can push boundaries and reimagine ways to bring the voice of the customer to life at Nationwide, we want to know more about you! As a Senior Consultant, your work will advance Nationwide’s mission to be the most customer-centric protection company. We'll count on you to help develop a strategic framework, capabilities and metrics to implement a comprehensive Voice of the Customer program to transform how we engage with our customers and partners. You'll have opportunities to aggregate customer data and feedback from a variety of sources to find opportunities and share impactful insights to improve and drive customer engagement and lifetime value.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
Eight or more years of progressive experience delivering valuable and impactful customer insights; experience applying human-centered design and innovation frameworks to transform customer experience.
Maintain a high level of expertise on external trends and practices related to customer experience measurement and standard methodologies across and outside our industry; display breadth and depth of knowledge regarding the field and data analysis; ability to partner optimally with key external vendors to establish and maintain strong relationships to ensure the expectations of Nationwide are met.
Familiar with a variety of quantitative and qualitative research tools and the best methods for reaching customers and analyzing behavior.
Ability to work cross-functionally and support multiple projects at the same time.
Impactful verbal and written communication skills.
Willing to take action, customer-focused, with effective prioritization, goal-setting and project management skills.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Responsibilities

Develops and provides solutions to providing a continuous positive customer experience.
Enable associates, business units and partners with the best intelligence and insights that drive innovative experiences for customers and distribution partners.
Collaborates with Finance and Strategy to identify metrics to track and report including customer scorecard, state of the customer report, metrics and targets for specific initiatives; coordinates with business units and Enterprise Analytics to optimize Voice of the Customer spend.
Leads, analyzes and prepares the qualitative and quantitative data from feedback loops and interpret customer feedback to identify themes, insights and implications that provide a comprehensive view of customers’ perceptions of Nationwide.
Creates clear and compelling reports that drive action.
Drives strategy around customer experience competitive intelligence for Nationwide.
Identifies sources of advantages through industry assessment and competitive analysis and disseminates key insights to business partners.
Ensures successful deployment of the customer feedback management system to transform a multitude of customer interactions into customer intelligence that can significantly accelerate Nationwide's ability to improve the customer experience and improve operational efficiencies.
Ensures Nationwide achieves the expected financial benefit through this engagement.
Cultivates strong business partner relationships and helps them identify needs around customer experience and data analysis; assists business with insights that aid in prioritizing initiatives that deliver the most value to their organization.
Partners with key internal partners (Marketing, Product, Nationwide Technology) to help prioritize initiatives based on customer insights.
Manages the budget with VP oversight: supports VP with management of contracts/relationships with key external vendors.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.