Sr Actuary Agribusiness Pricing – Remote

Overview

As a team member in the Finance department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor, Internal Audit, and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey! 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.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Actuary/Sr. Actuary to lead our Commercial Agribusiness Pricing portfolio. This role is pivotal in driving modernization and strategic influence within our organization.

• Lead the Commercial Agribusiness Pricing portfolio, managing a team of actuaries.
• Serve as a strategic partner to business leaders across product, underwriting, finance, and claims.
• Drive modernization efforts—introducing structure, templates, and analytics.
• Present regularly to senior executives, providing insights and recommendations.

• FCAS; ACAS with strong experience
• Background in commercial lines or agricultural pricing
• Proven change agent—able to lead transformation and build new processes
• Strong communicator with executive presence
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building from the ground up

• High visibility with senior leadership
• Opportunity to shape and modernize a critical portfolio
• Supportive leadership and openness to innovation
• A chance to make a real impact in a collaborative organization

This role can be staffed fully remote.

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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 a Senior Actuary, you’ll be an expert and will provide leadership direction and oversight for the creation and performance of complex actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. You’ll manage research and direct others to ensure efficient, consistent and integrated data and analysis. We’ll count on you to provide a strategic vision for the team and deliver business recommendations that are crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide our customers.

You’ll work independently and may lead others (directly and/or indirectly).

• Acts as technical expert of actuarial methodologies allowing the ability to source and manipulate data within standard requirements. Identifies new ways to utilize data driving overall strategic vision.
• Conducts complex analyses adhering to actuarial standards by selecting appropriate data sources, making assumptions, recognizing considerations, and developing recommendations. Accountable for resolving unreasonable results/non-optimal solutions using experience and professional judgment. Analysis conducted will be used to influence broad strategic vision of Nationwide.
• Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources and considerations in an organized fashion.
• Creates cohesive presentations and recommendations of actuarial findings that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the OCFO leadership level. May professionally represent company’s position with regulators, auditors and external vendors. May negotiate within defined parameters.
• Responsible for strategic development and oversight of multiple work plans ensuring accurate and timely delivery of product.
• Strategic leader of peer review process. Responsible for driving collaboration cross functionally, identifying gaps in process, recommending and implementing changes as needed to ensure quality work.
• Builds strategic business relationships at all levels of the organization to drive solution delivery.
• Responsible for identifying skill gaps and developing training materials to develop associates skills for future business needs.
• Advises on strategic data mining techniques used to identify…