Senior Actuary - Personal Lines State Pricing - REMOTE

Senior Actuary - Personal Lines Pricing

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer.

About the Role:

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Actuary specializing in Personal Lines Auto & Home Pricing. This pivotal role involves leading & owning pricing decisions for states in our Western region and collaborating closely with business partners. This is a key member of our leadership team, driving a partnership-driven approach.

• Lead a team of 5-6 pricing actuaries & own pricing decisions for the region, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Serve as a mentor and coach to support the career development of the team’s junior actuaries.
• Serve as a thought leader on actuarial methodologies, conducting & leading comprehensive analyses & work plans to ensure quality and accuracy.
• Engage with business partners to assess and enhance pricing capabilities in the market.
• 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 vison 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 oversite of multiple work plans ensuring accurate and timely delivery of product.
• Strategic leader of peer review process.
• Responsible for driving collaboration cross functionally, identifies gaps in process, recommends and implements 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 new relationships in data.
• Makes recommendations on data and software packages that help drive strategic vision of P&C actuarial and business success.
• Has expert knowledge of modeling, predictive modeling, and software applications.
• Consults and provides expert advice on new or enhanced product development opportunities, including discussions on data needed for analysis, coding implications and opinions of the viability and profitability of proposals.
• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

• ACAS is required; candidates with FCAS are preferred.
• Minimum of eight years of actuarial experience.
• Strong background in pricing and product knowledge.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python are preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment and manage changing priorities effectively.

Cultural Fit:
We seek candidates who are adaptable, proactive, and eager to support a development focused team culture. The ideal candidate will be a curious consumer of diverse actuarial work products and an effective business partner.

Be part of a forward-thinking team that values innovation and collaboration. Enjoy the flexibility of a remote or hybrid work environment while contributing to impactful projects. This position can be fully remote.

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…