Consultant, IT Project Mgmt

If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information 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.

The Delivery Leader in this role will lead teams driving the execution of enterprise data strategy initiatives within the EDO organization.  This individual will lead efforts supporting a wide range of enterprise data and analytics tools in the Advanced Analytics space, including Model Factory, and Aporia.

The demonstrated ability to quickly embed with the integrated business / technology team, to establish strong trusted working relationships and to manage multiple complex work streams are critical to success in this role.  The role requires the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across the enterprise with business and technology stakeholders and impacted teams.  This complex and challenging environment demands a confident leader who can quickly understand where to focus to drive this team forward to achieve strategic and tactical outcomes.

The ideal candidate will have the following:
* Strong Project Management Foundation:
Experience managing complex information technology efforts, where multiple business and technology teams are involved.  Solid grounding in waterfall and agile methodologies and ability to operate within a hybrid environment where variations of these and other methodologies are employed.
* Mastery of Nationwide Project / Portfolio / Financial tools and processes:
Demonstrated mastery in the use of Planview and significant experience in management of all aspects of financial management of projects, including the use of DEA, actual labor file data (SCM Reporting), and agile costing.  Experience leveraging tools to manage demand / capacity and an understanding of how project allocations impact demand / capacity is important in the role.
* Executive Presence:
The ability to inspire confidence and command respect through a combination of demeanor, communication skills, and demonstrated competence in role-specific activities.
* Strategic Thinking:
The ideal candidate must be able to understand the broader business context that projects are supporting and must understand how project objectives align with organizational priorities.
* Relationship Building

Skills:

Strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills are critical.  This ideal candidate will have the ability to quickly establish strong, trusted working relationships.
* Effective Communication:
The candidate must be able to articulate ideas clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing, to senior leadership and stakeholders.

* Collaboration:

The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with the SEPM, Agile Leader and Product Owner roles.  Demonstrated experience collaborating in a similar environment with these or similar roles is highly desirable.
* Vendor Management:  The ideal candidate will have experience managing vendor work in this space, including relationship and performance management and risk and cost management for the vendor effort.
* Motivated Driver / Self-Starter: this position requires the candidate to be a self-starter, to understand where to focus given many complex project efforts in flight at any given time and to be able to drive efforts through to completion.
* Stakeholder Management: the ideal candidate will engage with stakeholders effectively, communicate project progress, address concerns, and ensure alignment with business goals.  An understanding of how to accomplish delivery in a complex, matrixed corporate environment is critical.
* Tech Savviness:  As technology plays a significant role, being comfortable with digital tools and software is crucial. The ideal candidate will streamline processes and use technology efficiently.  A mastery of the technology required to engage with teams and individuals remotely is important.
* Facilitation

Skills:

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