Actuarial Consultant, Property Pricing

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Nationwide is hiring an Actuarial Consultant to join Personal Lines Pricing. This role will have a focus on the Homeowner's line of business, where actuarial insight helps shape pricing strategy, manage risk, and support profitable growth across personal lines.

In this role you will have the opportunity to influence business decision through recommendations on catastrophe and weather pricing, rate making assumptions, planning and forecasting, and monitoring emerging loss trends.

Reporting to PL Actuary Pricing Leader, this is a collaborative, high-visibility team that values curiosity, continuous learning, practical problem-solving, and innovative approaches to pricing decisions.

As an Actuarial Consultant, you will help turn complex insurance data and evolving risk dynamics into clear pricing recommendations and business decisions. You will contribute to the continued modernization of personal lines pricing while building strong partnerships across actuarial, risk, and business teams.

• Perform and support actuarial analyses that inform personal lines pricing weather loss and trend assumptions.
• Partner with Risk Management on catastrophe, reinsurance, and profit assumptions for pricing
• Support innovation, refinement, and documentation of property pricing methodology
• Contribute to planning and forecasting activities, including the development and delivery of pricing opinions.
• Monitor loss trends and emerging experience, identifying implications for current year financial results and opportunities to improve pricing assumptions.
• Translate technical analysis into clear recommendations for business partners and pricing leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, or another related quantitative field.
• ACAS designation, or significant progress toward achieving actuarial credential preferred.
• Growth in actuarial experience, ideally in P&C pricing, personal lines property, catastrophe pricing, or a related insurance discipline.
• Working knowledge of traditional actuarial pricing methodologies and the ability to apply sound analytical judgment to complex business questions.
• Experience using data to evaluate loss trends, support pricing decisions, or develop recommendations for business partners.
• SQL experience, or the ability and interest to learn SQL quickly.
• Exposure to Python, R, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar analytical tools is beneficial.
• Experience with homeowners pricing, catastrophe and weather risk, or planning and forecasting is a plus.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

It is our intention to fill this role in Columbus, OH, Scottsdale, AZ or Des Moines, IA. However, applications from candidates working remotely who bring critical industry skills and relevant experience may be considered.

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Our Property and Casualty (P&C) Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. If this sounds like a place you could thrive, then we want to know more about you!

As an Actuarial Consultant, you'll need to be adept at actuarial functions and know P&C products to perform complex, quantitative actuarial analyses. In addition, we'll count on you to provide expertise, including consultation and recommendations, on actuarial models and issues.

Which will give you the potential opportunity to work on various actuarial, analytics, and risk management teams to learn and develop across different actuarial functions. Should you choose to participate in the program, you will participate in two to three rotations of two years each. Full program details will be provided to you upon your start date.

• Has in depth knowledge of actuarial methodologies with the ability to source and manipulate complex data within standard requirements.
• Conducts complex analyses, adhering to actuarial standards, by selecting appropriate data sources, making assumptions, recognizing considerations, and developing recommendations. Resolves unreasonable results/non-optimal solutions using experience and professional judgment.
• Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources, and considerations in an organized fashion.
• Prepares and presents actuarial findings and documents that are suitable for technical and non-techni