Consultant, Technology Project Manager

Nationwide; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Nationwide seeks a Delivery Leader to oversee end-to-end technology project delivery within the Annuity Modernization Program. You will collaborate with business and technology leaders to drive value, manage dependencies, and ensure secure software practices across teams.

This exempt role requires coordinating multiple projects, managing risks, and communicating with senior stakeholders while optimizing vendor relationships to enable enterprise-scale change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Six+ years of technology experience with delivery leadership.
• Experience delivering outcomes/projects and familiarity with modern tech trends.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of business outcomes and benefits realization.
• Manage dependencies, risks, and issues across multiple teams.
• Coordinate with partners, manage budgets, and report on delivery KPIs.
• Negotiate statements of work and oversee vendor relationships.

Skills

End-to-end delivery

Stakeholder communication

Risk and issue management

Vendor management

Agile/Lean/DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree required

Tools

PMI

SAFe

Agile

Job description

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.

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Wednesdays & Thursdays.

Supports planning, coordination, and execution of complex technology initiatives within Nationwide Financial Technology's Annuity Modernization Program, a strategic transformation focused on modernizing the technology platforms and capabilities that support Nationwide's annuity business. The role partners with business and technology leaders to drive delivery predictability, remove blockers, accelerate value delivery, and help shape the future of a critical business capability.

Responsibilities include project planning, dependency management, milestone tracking, risk and issue management, stakeholder coordination, status reporting, and delivery execution support across multiple teams. This role provides a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-scale change, collaborate with senior leaders across the organization, and contribute to one of Nationwide's most significant technology transformation initiatives.

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 Delivery Leader you’ll be responsible for delivering value and outcomes. Delivery leaders are expected to have an end‑to‑end vantage point on delivery, manage dependencies, remove blockers, engage partners, manage financials, maximize vendor relationships, and enable an iterative delivery of value. You will need to keep pace with software delivery and organizational change methods and tools. Delivery leaders should also understand relevant Financial and Agile/Lean/DevOps tools and techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Drives the End to End delivery of expected business outcomes, realization of benefits as outlined in the business case, drives incremental value, drives incremental planning, and drives dependency scope definition.
• 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.
• Responsible for the communication, critical issues, visibility, change management guidance to deliver business outcomes.
• Key contributor in the facilitation of contract negotiations, statement of work development and vendor oversight toward expected goals.
• Drives the prioritization of deliverables, handles moderate to complex issues/risks, governs dependencies.
• Is responsible for the delivery of status/health reports to drive value delivery tracking (ex: KPIs), optimizes the flow of value and ensures demand/capacity is handled.
• Works with medium to large project/product financials.
• Serves as a professional to others around delivering business outcomes, benefit realization, agile delivery, and Lean.

May Perform Other Responsibilities As Assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Delivery Leader or Business Solution Area Executive.

Typical Skills And Experiences

Education: Undergraduate studies (bachelor’s degree preferred) in management information systems, engineering, math, computer science, data analytics or comparable experience and education strongly preferred.

License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifications or PMI, SAFE, Agile or Lean designations are encouraged.

Experience: Six or more years of experience in technology or related field. Three years demonstrated proficiency in delivering outcomes/projects. Awareness of emerging technologies and/or industry trends.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Ability to make decisions and recommendations. Aptitude to influence, establish relationships and set priorities. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with all levels of associates, senior management and/or vendors. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

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

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the 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

• 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.

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.

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 Project Manager : $118,000.00-$222,000.00 The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Technology Project Manager : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00