The ideal candidate for this role with has experience in Property and Casualty Insurance. Personal Lines (auto and home) experience is highly preferred.
This role can work in a hybrid capacity from the Columbus, OH offices but remote work arrangements will be considered for candidates located outside the Columbus area.
This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.
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Job Description Summary
Are you agile across all stages of product development - initiation, solution design, launch, and ongoing maintenance of products? Can you balance strategy, design, profitability and growth? If so, then we want to know more about you!As a Senior Consultant, Innovation Product Manager, you'll work to ensure customer needs are translated successfully into new products and customer experiences across the value chain. We'll count on you to align to business strategy, identify customer needs and be a key contributor to establishing the vision and defining the roadmap for innovation solutions that solve customer needs and deliver business value. You’ll be working with a cross-functional team to lead opportunity assessments that balance desirability, feasibility and viability. You will independently lead research and concept design and ultimately shepherd the opportunity through build and incubate. We’ll count on you to make recommendations about feature set, scope, go-to-market plans, pricing and design features. Throughout the entire innovation process, you will lead the coordination across the enterprise, including technology and design resources as well as Legal, Compliance and Marketing.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Communicates and collaborates across the organization with cross-functional teams such as Technology, Marketing, Sales, Public Relations, Enterprise Risk, data and analytics organizations, technologists, business and finance leads to ensure the best outcome.
Translates business, consumer and end-user needs into products, services, and experiences that solve needs and deliver value. Leverages desirability, viability, feasibility and build/buy/partner frameworks in the development of solutions.
Working with key business partners, identifies digital product vision and feature roadmap, accordingly.
Manages solution discovery process, including development and execution of the learning plan through primary and secondary research, rapid prototyping, MVP development and in in-market experimentation and iteration.
Ensures learning plan is aligned with intended business outcomes, has set KPIs and leading/lagging indicators and that actual results are measured and compared to plan to facilitate pivots and decision-making.
Partners with User Experience (UX) to align on customer usability of solution, User Interface design, and user research efforts to gain customer validation and make adjustments to solutions based on results.
Prioritizes and leads solution development by directing the agile development team in alignment with the developed roadmap.
Partners with UX and Nationwide Technology to establish and deliver development of products and customer experiences in alignment with the roadmap, balancing speed, cost and quality to ensure learning objectives as well as business outcomes are met.
Acts as a source of expertise for direction, mentoring and guidance for less experienced associates. Provides dotted line leadership to more junior Product Managers, Product Analysts and agile teams.
Keeps a pulse on industry movement and activities to serve as an organizational expert on the product operating model and emerging technologies.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Director, Innovation Product Management. This is an individual contributor role.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education:
Undergraduate studies in business administration, digital marketing, human-computer interaction, product management and design, data science, statistics, user experience or related subject area, MBA preferred.
Experience:
Typically, 10 or more years of customer-facing consumer or business product development and product management experience, including defining, launching and optimizing products and services. Professional and management experience in digital sales, website and mobile application development and/or research. Experience leading large, company-wide projects
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:
Proven general knowledge of product development and lifecycle management processes, the ability to think strategically and execute methodically, and deep customer empathy and curiosity that’s paired with knowledge in how to gather and synthesize consumer needs. Deep understanding of agile planning and delivery methodologies in a digital product management environment. Outstanding written and verbal communications. Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions. Demonstrated ability to steer enterprise-wide change such as change in business model, restructuring operations, new technologies, mergers, major collaborations, etc. Strong project and process management skills. Able to adapt to a fast-paced environment. Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills. Capable of negotiating and interacting with senior leadership, internal and external partners. Strategic problem solver with the ability to identify innovative and creative ways to bring digital experiences to life and solve key business problems.
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 Resource Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not eligible)
Working Conditions: Normal office environment.
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.
This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states.#marketingSmoke-Free Iowa Statement: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries comply with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act. Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed areas on or around company premises as well as company issued vehicles. The company offers designated smoking areas in which smoking is permitted at each individual location. The Act prohibits retaliation for reporting complaints or violations. For more information on the Iowa Smokefree Air Act, individuals may contact the Smokefree Air Act Helpline at 888-944-2247.For NY residents please review the following state law information: Notice of Employee Rights, Protections, and Obligations LS740 (ny.gov) https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2022/02/ls740_1.pdf
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 Senior Consultant, Innovation Product Manager : $124,000.00-$238,000.00The expected starting salary range for Senior Consultant, Innovation Product Manager : $134,000.00 - $202,000.00
What We Do
Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the United States. Nationwide is rated A+ by both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor’s. An industry leader in driving customer-focused innovation, Nationwide provides a full range of insurance and financial services products including auto, business, homeowners, farm and life insurance; public and private sector retirement plans, annuities and mutual funds; excess & surplus, specialty and surety; pet, motorcycle and boat insurance. For more information, visit www.nationwide.com.
