AVP, Advanced Analytics – Enablement

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Columbus, OH
Senior level
Insurance
The Role
The AVP, Advanced Analytics – Enablement will lead a team in developing advanced statistical methods and predictive analytics strategies while promoting standards and education within the organization.
Summary Generated by Built In

As a team member in the Finance department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor, Internal Audit, and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey! 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.

Job Description Summary

As the AVP, Advanced Analytic Enablement, you’ll be accountable for researching standardized and governed modeling capabilities across of broad spectrum of AI/ML techniques. You’ll be the subject matter expert of statistical methods, mathematics, and AI/ML algorithms such as General Linear Models, Tree-Based methods, Deep Learning methods, and general optimization methods. You will support the team and broader community with education on methods and algorithms and sets standards for community adherence.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leads a team of Analytic Scientists which are accountable to develop advanced statistical methods and standards for use across the broader community.  

  • Responsible for leading the strategic planning, thought leadership & execution of forward thinking, high impact predictive analytic approaches that will affect and impact strategic initiatives and operational processes within Nationwide’s customer base, distribution partnerships, and business operations.

  • Establishes standards and trains team on methods such as dimensionality reduction, time series and econometrics, Bayesian methodology, model selection including rigorous hyperparameter tuning, and grid search, and model performance estimation including.  

  • Provides expert recommendations on model evaluation metrics, model calibration, and cost-based view of model errors (Type 1 and Type 2).

  • Leads the Enterprise Analytics Office (EAO) in the research of model tuning and diagnostics capabilities including model prediction interpretability (including LIME, Shapley Values/SHAP, etc).

  • Continues advancing Nationwide’s capabilities in methods for modeling unstructured data and acts as lead researcher for next generation capabilities including advanced NLP methods, Generative AI methods, time series methods (including traditional forecasting methodology as well as processing of signal/audio-related series), and image and video analysis.

  • Fosters enterprise test and learn approaches to drive efficiencies and quicker learning/adoption.

  • Oversees associate management including performance management, salary planning and administration, training and development, workflow and organization planning. Supports the recruitment and development of talent. Creates an environment that promotes high performance and engagement. 

May Perform other duties as assigned. 

 

Reporting Relationships: Reports to VP, Chief Advanced Analytics Officer. Leads a team of 4 direct reports and approximately 10-15 indirect reports.  

 

Typical Skills and Experiences 

 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field highly preferred, in areas such as Statistics, Computer Science, Decision Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, or Engineering.  Graduate degree (MBA, MS) strongly preferred. 

 

Experience: Typically, 10 or more years of progressive management and leadership experience in advanced analytics, modeling, customer information systems, and data warehousing environments. A minimum 5 years of people leadership background is preferred. 

 

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Expert level experience with problem solving in a business environment; working with large multi-terabyte customer and prospect databases; and integrating diverse product, geographic, demographic data to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities. Advanced knowledge and experience involving the implementation and use of statistical modeling tools, data integration tools, data cleansing software, household matching and geo-coding applications in very large data environments. Extensive experience in leading concurrent projects utilizing multiple technologies. 

 

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 HR Business Partner. 

 

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values. 

 

Job Conditions 

 

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt) 

 

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.  Some travel may be 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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Data Cleansing Software
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The Company
Columbus, OH
29,597 Employees
On-site Workplace

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.

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