Consultant, Technology Analyst | PPM Product Owner

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be 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.

Product Owner – Plan & Build PPM

Are you passionate about shaping how we plan, fund, and deliver Technology efforts? If so, we have two Product Owner roles that will focus on the PPM capabilities that power our Plan & Build lifecycle and help define the future of portfolio and financial management across Nationwide Technology.

We are looking to fill 2 positions. In this role, you will become a subject matter expert in PPM tooling and practices, partnering closely with leaders from product, finance, and delivery to unlock better visibility, smarter decisions, and more consistent outcomes.

Key Focus Areas

• Own the PPM product vision, roadmap, and backlog

  • Partner with stakeholder to create and maintain the vision for portfolio and project management experience

  • Align PPM capabilities to Nationwide’s product operating model

  • Collaborate with the Plan & Build modernization team to design how PPM capabilities evolve

  • Manage and prioritize backlogs for portfolio, resource, timesheet, and financial planning capabilities in Smartsheet and Planview

• Drive standards, governance, and education for PPM

  • Become the go‑to SME on how portfolio planning, financial forecasting, Agile Costing, and capacity planning are executed in our tools.

  • Establish and maintain standard configurations, usage patterns, and golden paths for portfolio and project management.

  • Create and curate education materials, job aids, and office hours that help teams adopt consistent, outcome‑oriented PPM practices.

Preferred Attributes

• PPM & financial acumen

  • Experience with portfolio/project management, financial planning, or technology investment processes (e.g., business cases, funding cycles, capacity planning).

• Tool and process curiosity

  • Comfortable learning the details of Planview and Smartsheet and how they interact with other platforms

  • Enjoys mapping current‑state processes, spotting friction points, and experimenting toward simpler, more resilient patterns

• Strong facilitation and stakeholder skills

  • Clear communicator who can translate between business needs, portfolio constructs, and tool configuration

• Continuous improvement mindset

  • Demonstrable history of problem solving and incremental improvement, especially in complex, enterprise environments

  • Comfortable using Lean thinking and data to target and validate improvements

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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 Technology Analyst you will partner with the business to understand business needs and outcomes as well as provide all types of analysis skills related to understanding and meeting business outcomes. You will translate business outcomes into solution requirements using techniques such as facilitation and visual management. A Technology Analyst should have broad technology and analysis experience including: facilitation with large stakeholder groups, managing the complete requirements lifecycle, conducting structured analysis using both quantitative and qualitative techniques, analyzing data and application suites, and problem-solving using a collaborative style. Technology Analysts are engaged in work efforts at all scales ranging from minor defect fixes and enhancements to development of new applications. You will also work on all types of solution approaches (e.g. custom development, package implementation) and domains (e.g. all application types, data warehouses, Web, and Cloud).

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• With strong knowledge, partners with the business leaders and other technology professionals to understand business needs and outcomes.

• Translates multiple business outcomes into solution requirements.

• 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.

• Manages complex requirements and ensure business alignment using facilitation and visual management techniques.

• Leads and/or executes the preparation of detailed documentation and clarifies moderate to complex work products requirements.

• Provides complex analysis related to understanding and meeting business outcomes.

• Drives with others to verify, trace and manage functional and non-functional requirements.

• Possess a strong understanding of the applications used to support the business in a specific Business Solution Area(s) (BSA).

• Conducts multiple quality improvements by providing complex analysis of relevant data.

• Drives the complete requirements lifecycle from idea through implementation.

• Leads requirement sessions with business leaders and other technology professionals using visual facilitation techniques.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships:  Reports to Technology Manager or Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education:   Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or a related field is preferred.

License/Certification/Designation:  Technology certifications or designation are not required but encouraged.

Experience:  Eight years of relevant work experience including software delivery or educational experience within a technology domain. Experience with delivering Technology and/or business solutions across industries, platforms and/or lines of business (LOB) within the insurance and/or financial services industries. Demonstrated capability in managing the requirements lifecycle, including facilitation, elicitation, and documenting requirements. 

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:  Master analytical and communication skills, knowledge of planning.  Ability to influence, negotiate and set priorities needed. Ability to facilitate requirement sessions using visual techniques with senior leaders.  Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership or technical skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values:  Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility:  Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions:   Normal office environment. Some travel maybe required. 

ADA:  The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job.  Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties. 

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: 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, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

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NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Consultant, Technology Analyst : $118,000.00-$222,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Technology Analyst : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00