Underwriting Advanced Analytics & Risk Selection Specialist; CLESS

Position: Underwriting Advanced Analytics & Risk Selection Specialist (CLESS)
## Underwriting Advanced Analytics & Risk Selection Specialist (CLESS)
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If you’re passionate about helping people protect what matters most to them at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, as well as innovating and simplifying processes and operations to provide the best customer value, then Nationwide’s Property and Casualty team could be the place for you! At Nationwide, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers and partners are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

Join a high-impact data insights team driving underwriting and claims excellence across Nationwide’s
** Commercial, Excess, Surplus, and Specialty
** lines (CLESS). The Advanced Analytics and Risk Selection Team delivers intelligent, actionable analytics, along with AI-driven insights and risk selection solutions that power competitive advantage. We’re looking for a hands-on technical expert who thrives on working directly with data to build scalable, intelligent solutions.
** Role Overview
** You will be deeply involved in querying, synthesizing, and visualizing complex datasets to uncover actionable insights. You’ll support design and delivery of advanced analytics, AI, and predictive solutions that drive strategic decision-making and a competitive advantage for the CLESS business.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Perform hands-on data exploration, feature engineering, and model development.
* Build scalable analytic and AI solutions aligned with underwriting and risk selection goals.
* Translate raw data into clear, consumable insights and visualizations.
* Collaborate across teams to assess business impact and deliver high-value solutions.
** Ideal Candidate
*** Strong technical skills in Databricks, SQL, Python, R, or similar tools.
* Proven experience in data wrangling, visualization, and insight generation.
* Deep understanding of statistical distributions and methods such as hypothesis testing.
* Experience in P&C insurance
* Familiarity with predictive modeling techniques and statistical and predictive modeling packages
* Experience with database querying, data modeling, and analytic engineering
* Ability to work independently and dive deep into complex data problems.
* Comfortable translating technical findings into business-relevant insights.
* Passionate about building solutions that make a measurable impact.
* Strong ability to communicate (written and verbally) complex messages in a business-friendly, consumable manner#LI-AS1#LI-remote
** Job Description Summary
** We are a versatile group of individuals, working together to meet the needs of our customers. We value knowledge, analytical aptitude and collaboration. If you thrive in a busy, engaging work environment, we want to know more about you!
As a Specialist, Business Insights, you'll extract and manipulate internal and external data through R/SAS/SQL/Python, perform diagnostic and inferential analysis, and communicate actionable insights to business partners. You’ll also work with business partners to determine data and information needs to aid the business with decision making and build statistical and visual solutions using sophisticated business intelligence tools. And you may serve as a lead to others for information and data needs.

Your focus will be to maximize the insight gained from internal and external data, ensuring that business partners are making decisions in an optimally informed way.
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* Key Responsibilities:

*** Functions as the specialist in data extraction from databases, tables, data warehouses and other sources through R/SAS/SQL/Python. Develops, produces, and maintains inferential, statistical, ad hoc and custom analyses and modeling for functional business areas. May use various data access tools to pull information for reports and solutions.
* Builds and maintains relationships and serves as a trusted financial and operational measurement resource to clients, internal risk partners and other stakeholders.
* Creates…