This position will provide delivery leadership aligned to our Compensation Product team and be a member of the Agency Sales Enablement leadership team. We are looking for someone with a passion for technology and driving innovative solutions for our business partners, customers, and Nationwide IT. You will have the opportunity to join an amazing team and organization that is continually pushing the boundaries of how we deliver business value for Nationwide and our members.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate the following:

• 5-7 years of experience leading technology delivery
• Demonstrated ability to drive project efforts in a product focused environment leveraging Agile and Lean practices
• Successful delivery in a fast paced, complex, and challenging yet fun environment
• Successful relationships with business and technology partners
• Insurance industry knowledge a plus

What we offer

• An engaging work environment.
• The opportunity to work on a business-critical Nationwide application.  Our P&C Compensation team supports the payout of roughly $1.6B to 41k agents and internal sales associates.
• Direct line of sight between the work you do and business results.  We work very closely with our Compensation partners supporting each of our P&C businesses.
• A Flexible working environment.  We are currently working in a hybrid WFO/WFH environment, and provide a great degree of flexibility to the team

Compensation Grade: G5

Job Description Summary

If you’re passionate about delivering technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Our industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Delivery Leader you’ll be responsible for delivering value and outcomes. Delivery leaders are expected to have an end-to-end vantage point on delivery, manage dependencies, remove blockers, engage partners, manage financials, maximize vendor relationships, and enable an iterative delivery of value. You will need to keep pace with software delivery and organizational change methods and tools. Delivery leaders should also understand relevant Financial and Agile/Lean/DevOps tools and techniques.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Drives the End to End delivery of expected business outcomes, realization of benefits as outlined in the business case, drives incremental value, drives incremental planning, and drives dependency scope definition.

• Responsible for the communication, critical issues, visibility, change management guidance to deliver business outcomes.

• Key contributor in the facilitation of contract negotiations, statement of work development and vendor oversight toward expected goals.

• Drives the prioritization of deliverables, handles moderate to complex issues/risks, governs dependencies.

• Is responsible for the delivery of status/health reports to drive value delivery tracking (ex: KPIs), optimizes the flow of value and ensures demand/capacity is handled.

• Works with medium to large project/product financials.

• Serves as a professional to others around delivering business outcomes, benefit realization, agile delivery, and Lean.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Delivery Leader or Business Solution Area Executive.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education: Undergraduate studies (bachelor’s degree preferred) in management information systems, engineering, math, computer science, data analytics or comparable experience and education strongly preferred. 

License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifications or PMI, SAFE, Agile or Lean designations are encouraged.

Experience: Six or more years of experience in technology or related field. Three years demonstrated proficiency in delivering outcomes/projects. Awareness of emerging technologies and/or industry trends.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Ability to make decisions and recommendations. Aptitude to influence, establish relationships and set priorities. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with all levels of associates, senior management and/or vendors. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus. 

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence. 

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.