Consultant, Product Development - P&C; Personal Lines, Property

Consultant, Product Development

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. Are you ready to influence product strategy and drive innovation in the Property & Casualty space? Join our Personal Lines Property team as a Consultant, Product Development—a strategic thinker who thrives on turning insights into action.

In this newly created position, you’ll be at the forefront of competitive intelligence and product enhancement, blending data analysis, process management, and continuous improvement to elevate both customer and agent experiences. Your work will directly impact how we deliver value in a rapidly evolving market.

• Lead Key Product Features
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  Own Service Line and Equipment Breakdown products—manage vendor relationships, monitor KPIs, and drive utilization strategies.
• Serve as Property Product SME
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  Act as the go-to liaison for product questions/issues across Personal Lines business units and support enhancements from scoping through implementation.
• Drive Competitive Intelligence
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  Research and respond to requests from Field Product, Product Development, Pricing, and other stakeholders to keep Nationwide ahead of the curve.
• Champion Product Enhancements
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  Coordinate scoping, competitive analysis, recommendations, communication, and monitoring for prioritized initiatives.

• Competitive Intelligence & Market Research
  : S&P Global Market Intelligence
• Data Analysis & KPI Tracking
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  Tableau or Power BI;
  Excel (Advanced)
• Project & Process Management
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  Jira or Asana
• Communication & Reporting
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  Microsoft Teams + Share Point

Our work is essential to helping Nationwide build future capability to serve customer needs. Keeping existing products relevant and marketable and building new products takes research, critical thinking, practicality and collaboration. If you enjoy gathering input and information, working independently and on a team and creating innovative solutions for customers, we want to know more about you.

As a Consultant, you’ll develop new personal or commercial insurance products and make enhancements to existing products. Your work will include designing, leading and implementing all aspects of project work plans, including planning, communication, execution and completion. Your work will focus on driving assigned product growth and profitability. You’ll typically have responsibility for a single product line, e.g., standard auto, power sports, property or commercial.

You’ll have opportunities to work with many areas across the organization regarding product and pricing features.

• Leads new business development and implementation projects. Provides leadership to all functional areas related to product design and management. Makes recommendations based on in-depth functional knowledge and opportunities for improvement.
• Develops and implements strategic business rules that support business requirements. Reviews pricing, design features and associated processes. Partners with underwriting to develop standards and guidelines.
• Develops and drives key initiatives related to growth and profitability. Manages strategies related to multiple product growth and profitability objectives. Coordinates product strategy with sales, agency management, field product and marketing.
• Develops and controls timelines, including regularly re‑assessing risks, throughout project life. Revises project plans on an ongoing basis to maintain alignment with other projects and/or business strategy.
• Leads the process of analyzing market information on competitors. Proactively identifies product opportunities.
• Leads the coordination, development and implementation of new product training.
• Responsible for internal and external resource management, budgeting and cost containment.
• Provides market analysis tools and global data to the regions. Completes a national product analysis regarding performance, financial results, profitability, business mix and…