Director, Business Insights (Agribusiness)

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. This Director, Business Insights role is dedicated to Nationwide Agribusiness (NWAG) and will lead the existing data enablement team while owning the build and execution of NWAG’s Data Strategy. The preferred candidate would be a data leader with 10+ years of progressive experience translating enterprise or business-unit strategy into execution, supported by deep knowledge of data architecture, data models, modern data platforms, and governance. The role requires strong executive presence and close partnership with the enterprise and technology teams to align priorities, secure leadership buy-in and deliver capabilities that improve business outcomes. Preferred candidates should bring a demonstrated track record of leading complex data transformations and influencing senior stakeholders across business and technology. The person in this role will work in a hybrid work environment from either the Des Moines, IA, Scottsdale, AZ or Columbus, OH offices.

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 Director, Business Insights, you’ll lead a team responsible for extracting and manipulating internal and external data through R/SAS/SQL/Python, performing diagnostic and inferential analysis, investigating complex business concerns using data, technical techniques, analysis or visualization techniques, and communicating key findings to business partners. Your focus will be for your team to maximize and effectively communicate insight gained from internal and external data to ensure that business executives are making decisions in an optimally informed way. And we’ll count on you to establish, grow, and evolve relationships with the business to maximize effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities: Builds and maintains relationships and serves as a trusted business advisor to business executives, clients, internal risk partners and others. Creates partnerships across the company to ensure methodologies and assumptions used are aligned with corporate practices. Leads team performing data analysis and modeling on extracted data sets to craft, package and communicate actional insights and recommendations to business partners and executives. Directs team responsible for crafting, packaging and communicating internal/external insights to business partners.  Ensures that insights are positioned to be action oriented. Plans and advises team regarding work which may span more than one project or focus area. Owns the development of the scope, risk/control matrix, project timelines and assignments. Drives the development of strategies for the business unit. Influences business executives to understand. Directs the team to align and deliver analysis that supports business objectives and priorities.  Leads team in building business intelligence through tools such as R, Python, SAS, SQL, Tableau, etc. May lead training on report preparation and data base access. Leads training on analysis, problem solving, and statistical inferencing. Leads a portfolio of special projects for both team members and members from other departments. Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives.  Leverages statistical inferencing when conducting analysis.