Are you passionate about being part of a team that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their retirement? If so, then Nationwide Financial 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.
The Life Sales Enablement team is a group of individuals that leverages digital tools, data analytics and placement coordination in support of our life insurance sales partners. Life Sales Enablement’s goal is to optimize the sales process by strategically identifying the highest potential leads, utilizing technology to plan sales activities and providing hands-on placement support.
This role currently structures and leads campaigns across multiple life distributions using data-driven statistical modeling techniques to maximize sales outcomes and measure the effectiveness of past campaigns. The role is also responsible for partnering with sales associates, peer analytics groups, and external vendors to grow and evolve the effectiveness of the sales process.
Key Responsibilities:
- Builds and maintains relationships with sales leaders and associates to possess the full understanding of the sales environment to effectively advise and plan sales strategies and increase revenue growth.
- Builds and maintains relationships with peer life analytics groups to coordinate the analytical tools and resources being provided to our customers with the goal of a “single source of truth” that is in line with Nationwide’s sales goals.
- Builds and maintains relationships with external vendors to ensure that Life Sale Enablement is leveraging the appropriate technology in support of our sales customers, while considering costs, risk/benefit and overall alignment to sales goals and objectives.
- Gathers requirements, designs, builds, tests and deploys large scale sales campaigns across multiple life distributions utilizing data-driven statistical and predictive methodologies.
- Coordinates with business stakeholders to identify the scope, timeline and success metrics of deliverables.
- Responsible for the attribution metrics of sales activity. Consults with sales leaders to understand, define and deliver insight in support of life sales objectives and priorities.
- Builds customized business intelligence processes and infrastructure, leveraging technologies like SQL, Python, Tableau, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, etc. The role requires extracting and transforming large data sets across multiple platforms, both structured and unstructured like Oracle, Snowflake, Teradata, and AWS to generate insight and advise sales leaders and associates.
- Prepares insights and analytics derived from multiple primary data sources and information systems.
- Trains other users in life insurance products, life data infrastructure and technology.
- Serves as a technical consultant for peer groups and special projects
- Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives.
This role requires a hybrid work schedule at the Plaza One location in Columbus, Ohio. The team is onsite 3 days per week.
Compensation Grade: F4
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Job Description Summary
We are a versatile group of individuals, working together to meet the needs of our customers. We value knowledge, analytical aptitude and collaboration. If you thrive in a busy, engaging work environment, we want to know more about you!
As a Specialist, Business Insights, you'll extract and manipulate internal and external data through R/SAS/SQL/Python, perform diagnostic and inferential analysis, and communicate actionable insights to business partners. You’ll also work with business partners to determine data and information needs to aid the business with decision making and build statistical and visual solutions using sophisticated business intelligence tools. And you may serve as a lead to others for information and data needs. Your focus will be to maximize the insight gained from internal and external data, ensuring that business partners are making decisions in an optimally informed way.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
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Functions as the specialist in data extraction from databases, tables, data warehouses and other sources through R/SAS/SQL/Python. Develops, produces, and maintains inferential, statistical, ad hoc and custom analyses and modeling for functional business areas. May use various data access tools to pull information for reports and solutions.
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Builds and maintains relationships and serves as a trusted financial and operational measurement resource to clients, internal risk partners and other stakeholders.
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Creates and presents financial and operational results. Ensures that insights are action oriented. May develop new statistical and visual solutions for relevant insights.
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Consults with business partners to understand, align and deliver work that supports business objectives and priorities.
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Leverages statistical inferencing when conducting analysis. Communicates significance in findings when working with business partners. May build business intelligence applications using statistical, database and/or general programming languages and tools.
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May assist other associates with preparation of reports and use of information systems, software and related sources of information and may train other users on report preparation and data base access.
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Serves as a single point of contact and consultant for business areas for the intake and prioritization of data, reporting, analysis, and advanced statistical work.
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Leads and serves as a main point of contact for projects. Monitors, reviews and analyzes the external environment to support the research and analysis done with data extracted from internal sources. Presents and discusses these findings with customers.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Manager/Director and does not have direct reports.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education:Undergraduate studies in data or business analytics, computer science, management information, business, mathematics or related field with post-graduate studies preferred
Experience: Six or more years of related experience with data extraction, data manipulation, data visualization analysis, and problem solving; working with large database. Professional experience in insurance, financial services, or a related industry preferred.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:
In-depth knowledge of business policies and procedures, customer service concepts and practices. In-depth understanding of and working knowledge to build data visualization and business intelligence tools. Strong communication skills to interact with others. Ability to understand business processes and the data produced by them. Understanding of functional and operational measurement needs, analyze data requests and interpret business problems into solutions. Ability to work under tight time constraints. Capable of developing distinctive and understandable data visualizations. 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 Resources Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Occasional travel, nonstandard or extended work may be required based on project needs.
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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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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