AVP, Strategic Planning - Property and Casualty

If you're passionate about helping a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales drive their strategy forward through innovative product development and advancing strategic partnerships to protect customers, then Nationwide is 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.

This AVP, Strategic Planning role will place particular emphasis on deep expertise in one or more areas critical to advancing the P&C business: E&S (non-admitted), specialty insurance, or distribution across the full P&C landscape. The ideal candidate will use that expertise—along with a broad understanding of the insurance industry—to identify opportunities, challenge conventional thinking, and help shape strategies that accelerate business performance and long-term growth.

The successful candidate will connect internal and external insights to develop compelling points of view and influence executive stakeholders through sophisticated, multi-stage storytelling and stakeholder engagement.

The role also requires a track record of setting a high bar for talent and developing associates through candid coaching, meaningful exposure, and empowerment.

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At Nationwide, the Office of Corporate Strategy exists to help executive leadership across our businesses - Property Casualty, Financial Services and Corporate Development - approach strategic decision-making to determine how to create the most value for the company in a way that supports Nationwide’s mission and vision. If you are a big-picture thinker and a consultant at heart, we want to know more about you!

As an Associate Vice President, you’ll advise and guide Nationwide executives through the industry’s most critical challenges. It’s the management consulting experience, without the travel! You’ll have a platform to directly engage senior leaders within projects that span the full breadth of our business portfolio. To succeed, you’ll need the ability to forge trusted relationships, distill results-driven strategies out of complex issues and facilitate impactful decisions with support from a group of high-performing professionals.

This role allows you the opportunity to be part of the team at the forefront, driving the direction of meaningful and positive change at Nationwide.

• Partners with business leaders to identify, evaluate and pursue strategic opportunities, ranging from organic growth to new business line development to operating model redesign.
• Manages strategic projects for the Office of the CEO (OCEO), Management Committee or business leadership teams to successfully realize opportunities. For each strategy, figures outs 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 partners from across Nationwide’s corporate and business unit functions to drive business results.
• Advises and is responsible for the corporate or business level strategic 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 monitor the impact and efficacy of Nationwide’s defined strategies
• Leads all aspects of 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 leadership teams.
• Establishes and maintains external relationships with other industry experts and vision leaders to facilitate internal innovation and strategic thinking.
• 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.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.