[Hiring] Specialist, Business Insights @Nationwide

Role Description

This role involves extracting and manipulating internal and external data through R/SAS/SQL/Python, performing diagnostic and inferential analysis, and communicating actionable insights to business partners.

• Perform advanced data analysis using SQL, Excel, R, and Python to identify trends, risks, and growth opportunities.
• Translate business questions into analytical frameworks and measurable outcomes.
• Provide proactive insight into performance drivers including growth, conversion, retention, claims, and profitability.
• Support forecasting, scenario modeling, and impact analysis for business initiatives.
• Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade dashboards and semantic models in Power BI.
• Develop scalable and efficient data models sourced from Snowflake.
• Ensure reporting accuracy, consistency, and alignment with enterprise data definitions.
• Optimize performance of datasets and visualizations to support premium capacity standards.
• Partner with data governance and engineering teams to ensure data quality and integrity.
• Identify data gaps and collaborate on remediation efforts.
• Maintain documentation of data definitions, calculations, and reporting logic.
• Support regulatory and compliance reporting as needed.
• Serve as a trusted analytics advisor to business stakeholders.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions and translate needs into analytical deliverables.
• Present insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support strategic initiatives with data-backed recommendations.
• Improve reporting efficiency through automation and process optimization.
• Standardize reporting templates and analytical methodologies.
• Contribute to innovation efforts, including advanced analytics and AI-driven use cases.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate studies in data or business analytics, computer science, management information, business, mathematics or related field with post-graduate studies preferred.
• Six or more years of related experience with data extraction, data manipulation, data visualization analysis, and problem solving; working with large database. Professional experience in insurance, financial services, or a related industry preferred.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of business policies and procedures, customer service concepts and practices.
• In-depth understanding of and working knowledge to build data visualization and business intelligence tools.
• Strong communication skills to interact with others.
• Ability to understand business processes and the data produced by them.
• Understanding of functional and operational measurement needs, analyze data requests and interpret business problems into solutions.
• Ability to work under tight time constraints.
• Capable of developing distinctive and understandable data visualizations.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short and long term disability coverage
• Paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
• Nine paid holidays
• 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
• 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• Company-paid pension plan
• Business casual attire