Sr. Consultant, Portfolio Insights Technical Enablement

Nationwide; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide is seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to deliver cross-line insights and enable technical perspectives across Portfolio Insights. You will translate business questions into structured analytics and harden dashboards for executive consumption.

You’ll collaborate with internal teams to consume trusted data, own BI applications, and drive improvement across financial and operational measurement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong data synthesis for low-structure environments.
• Ability to translate analytics for executive and non-technical audiences.
• Advanced dashboarding and analytical tooling (Power BI, SQL, etc.).
• Ability to communicate complex findings clearly to non-technical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains relationships with leaders and stakeholders as trusted advisor.
• Develops financial and operational measurement solutions and dashboards.
• Translates cross-portfolio business questions into structured analytics outputs.
• Drives reporting automation and ad hoc insights for end users.

Skills

Data synthesis

Executive storytelling

Power BI

SQL

Education

Undergraduate studies in CS/MIS/Business/Math

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Job description

• Data engineering or data governance

If you’re passionate about helping people protect what matters most to them at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, as well as innovating and simplifying processes and operations to provide the best customer value, then Nationwide’s Property and Casualty team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers and partners are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This Sr Consultant role provides technical enablement and synthesis across Portfolio Insights, ensuring analytics outputs are trustworthy, executive‑ready, and scalable. This role will not create a standalone Business Insights or data engineering function that duplicates broader data or reporting capabilities.

This role is an exciting new enablement position, focused on 1) delivering cross-line of business insights and 2) enabling the Line of Business Insights leads from a technical perspective.

In Addition To Core Sr Consultant Expectations, This Role

• Facilitates the ongoing development, maintenance, and running of analytical monitoring dashboards (generally in Power BI)
• Translates ambiguous, cross‑portfolio business questions into structured analytical outputs
• Hardens analytics and Portfolio Insights dashboards for executive level consumption
• Partners closely with relevant internal teams to consume trusted internal data
• Absorbs technical execution that would otherwise spread across multiple line of business-focused insights leads
• Acts as a connector across Property, Casualty, and Financial Lines analytics efforts

Explicitly out of scope

• Data engineering or data governance
• Centralized reporting suite to business partners

Core Capabilities

Required Skillsets / Background

• Strong data synthesis skills in low‑structure environments
• Experience translating analytics for executive & non-technical audiences
• Advanced dashboarding and analytical tooling (Power BI, SQL, etc.)
• Ability to communicate complex findings clearly to non‑technical leaders

Preferred Background

• P&C insurance or adjacent financial services experience
• Experience working directly with non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort operating as a senior individual contributor without formal authority

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 Senior Consultant, you'll structure and lead large financial and operational measurement projects across one or more business units and effectively synthesize measurement results to improve business outcomes. You'll be responsible for growing and evolving the business partner relationship and service management profession to maximize effectiveness and may be responsible for the business unit financial and operational measurement strategy or project portfolio.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains relationships and serves as trusted business advisor to leaders, clients, internal risk partners and other stakeholders. Creates partnerships across the company to ensure methodologies and assumptions used are aligned with corporate practices.
• Crafts, packages and communicates financial and operational measurement work by developing new statistical and visual solutions.
• Participates in the development of scope, risk/control matrix, project timelines and assignments. Work may span more than one project or focus area.
• Owns the development of financial and operational measurement strategies for the business unit. Consults with business leaders to understand, align and deliver measurement work that supports business objectives and priorities.
• Builds business intelligence applications using statistical, database and/or general programming languages and tools. Uses technology for data management, report automation and/or ad hoc reporting for end users.
• Prepares reports and uses information systems, software and related sources of information. Trains other users on report preparation and database access. Consults on monitoring external sources, crafting custom reports, compiling and summarizing information, producing supporting documentation and exhibits and verification of information received from external sources.
• Manages special projects and serves as data/technical lead and contact for team members and associates from other areas of the company.
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives.

May Perform Other Responsibilities As Assigned

Reporting Relationships

Reports to Director/Associate Vice President and may have the opportunity to lead a small team of Business Insight professionals.

Typical Skills And Experiences

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information, business, mathematics or related field with post-graduate studies preferred.

Experience: Typically, 10 or more years of experience in data visualization, financial and operational measurement and data extraction queries. Detailed experience with data extraction problem solving; working with large structured and unstructured data sets and databases to create understandable and relevant measures. 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. Sophisticated understanding of and working knowledge to build and maintain ad hoc and standard reports, including data visualization and business intelligence tools. Advanced knowledge on conducting data management and extraction of data for functional and operational measurement. Strong communication skills for interactions with others. Ability to understand 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