Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nationwide is a Fortune 100 company with a strong focus on customer care and innovative product development. The Senior Consultant role provides strategic and advisory support for Nationwide Financial Services, focusing on turning insights into actionable strategies and recommendations for senior leaders.
Responsibilities
- Partners with business leaders to identify, evaluate and pursue strategic opportunities, ranging from organic growth to new business line development to operating model redesign
- Leads strategic projects for the Office of the CEO (OCEO), Management Committee, or business unit leadership teams to successfully realize those opportunities. For each strategy, determines where we will play, how we will win, and what decisions or trade-offs we must make
- Organizes, facilitates and leads project teams of relevant parties involved from across Nationwide’s corporate and business unit functions to drive business results
- Advises and coordinates the corporate or business level strategy planning process, which produces a three-year corporate and/or business unit strategic plan tied to financial implications
- Establishes and implements mechanisms to translate strategic plans into business unit operational plans
- Interprets financial, statistical and other data to observe the impact and efficacy of Nationwide’s defined strategies
- Coordinates the consultation, preparation and communication of evaluation findings and recommendations to all levels of management, including the Board of Directors, OCEO, Strategy leadership team and business unit leadership teams
- Establishes and maintains external relationships with other industry specialists and thought leaders to facilitate internal innovation and strategic vision
- Engages in continuous improvement of the department, self and others. Actively develops associates in problem solving and communication skills and other areas of thought leadership, collaboration and professional expertise
Skills
- Demonstrated academic success
- Proven knowledge of strategy planning, project management tools, concepts, and methodologies
- Significant leadership experience with strategic projects, from either a top tier consulting firm or a Fortune 100 strategy planning group
- Proven ability to use business and industry knowledge
- Must have excellent problem-solving skills including the ability to structure problems, identifies core issues, articulate problem statements, lead problem solving discussions, and separate issues into discrete work streams that result in solutions
- Demonstrated competency in clearly presenting thoughts, ideas and concepts both verbally in individual and group settings and in writing
- Must demonstrate ability to provide impactful advice/solutions to parties involved and business partners and builds effective partnerships with business partners ensuring priorities are aligned
- Demonstrated competency in utilization of approaches/tools customary to strategy professionals and demonstrates key areas of effective project management such as scope definition, time management, cost analysis, human resources management, risk assessment and management
- Able to work and handle large, complex projects
- Ability to lead and develop engaged, high performing project teams
- Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values
- MBA or equivalent is preferred
- Solid understanding of the insurance industry preferred
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
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