Job Description

Are you passionate about being part of a team that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their retirement? If so, then Nationwide Financial could be the place for you!

This role will be the BDE for the NF Shared Portfolio Pre-Sale workstream. The role will partner and collaborate with various NF Business teams, Nationwide Technology teams, and other functions across the organization. Exceptional communication skills are required. Other desired experience includes managing all aspects of the initiative, budget management, development of business cases and ensuring the business outcomes, creating executive summaries, and communication plans.

The following are high level expectations of this role:

* Responsible for driving business outcomes across multiple workstreams to bring efficiency across the business
* Proactively identify next best opportunities to drive strategic goals within and across the portfolio
* Focus on driving alignment, promoting portfolio awareness, generating overall support for portfolio activities and the achievement of workstream objectives
* Possess a firm understanding of current NF business processes, have a desire to help shape the future of NF, display strong communication and relationship building skills along with ability to influence others
* Familiar with standard project management practices and be well-versed in agile methodology or iterative development
* Proven leadership skills with the ability to collaborate, remove roadblocks, drive alignment and assist with tracking progress against defined business outcomes
* Possess planning skills, decision-making skills, time management skills along with the ability to motivate others, recognize achievements and be that consultative voice to make it simple, and collaborative while driving results
* Ability to create an engaging environment where the team feels valued, appreciated, in a safe space and encouraged to do their best work everyday
* This is an H3 band role

Job Description Summary

JOB SUMMARY: Directs the strategic alignment and success of major corporate programs and initiatives for assigned business units. Prioritizes, approves and ensures the completion of new product development, design of new processes, adoption of new strategies and/or programs within time, budget, and specification constraints. Provides a single point of contact integration for individual projects into larger program management on a corporate-wide basis.

Job Description

Reports to: Officer / VP. May manage project managers through direct of indirect reporting relationship.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Directs the evaluation of proposed business development efforts including the coordination of initial program/project proposals (i.e., high level scope, deliverables, cost estimates and return on investment analysis) and charters. Determines and recommends to senior management if program/project strategically aligns with the organization?s strategy and objectives.

2. Consults with senior leadership and assigned project teams to identify scope/specifications and business needs, writes proposals, prepares risk assessments and establishes budgets and timeframes for major programs and team based activities, with the goal of ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and objectives.

3. Directs the allocation and funding for programs/projects and their initiatives.

4. Directs the development of business perspective work plans to determine needed resources (process, functional, product and distribution channels) to deliver program/project charters, requirements, user acceptance testing strategies, training, and system implementation.

5. Monitors and assesses all projects and strategic initiatives and communicates status to senior leadership. Ensures and manages the communication to and incorporation of feedback from customers on proposed, developing and completed projects and strategic initiatives. Evaluates all related vendor deliverables.

6. Manages the interfaces between projects, acting as a liaison between project managers and directors, to ensure collaboration and coordination between business unit leadership, program/project development staff, senior management, Technology Services, customers, and if necessary, vendors and outside consultants.

7. Identifies technology and human resource commitments across the organization. Provides feedback and makes recommendations to senior management to assist in prioritization, formation of cross-functional and/or customer integrated teams and the reallocation of resources when necessary.

8. Identifies gaps, overlaps, conflicts, and time as well as budgetary and resource barriers, which effect programs and projects individually and as a whole. Facilitates resolution, mitigation, and appropriate elevation. Maintains a log of common issues, risks, and changes to promote organizational learning and proactive response.

9. Identifies endangered and misaligned programs, projects, and initiatives, and represents senior management in leading resulting recovery, revision, or shutdown efforts that may be required.

10. Develops, implements, and maintains a consistent program/project management framework such as methodologies and standards for use in the assigned business unit leadership and associated business units.

11. Consults and coaches leadership and team members throughout business units on new project/program management trends, practices and procedures, and tools.

12. Acts as a liaison to program management staff in other areas of Nationwide and integrates the workflow in these areas in support of company and business unit strategy.

13. Performs other duties as assigned.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Education: Undergraduate degree in business, insurance or related field. MBA or equivalent desired. Project Management Certification strongly preferred.

Experience: Ten years of general management experience including insurance operations, program/project leadership, and involvement/interaction with multiple functional areas such as HR, finance/accounting, systems, legal, and communications.

Knowledge: Proven knowledge of project management tools, concepts, and methodologies (such as PMI and SEI CMM concepts, PERT, CPM Network, MS Project, PIMS, etc). Knowledge of industry, customers and businesses as demonstrated by CPCU, CLU, and/or ChFC highly desired. Must have familiarity with Nationwide?s strategic vision, directions, and values.

Skills/Competencies: Demonstrated competency in key competencies of effective program/project management such as scope, definition, time management, cost analysis and allocation, human resource management, risk assessment and management, procurement, communication and integration management. Must be able to work and manage large, complex programs/projects.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values and Guiding Behaviors.

Staffing Exceptions to the above minimum job requirements must be approved by: Business Unit VP and HR VP.

JOB CONDITIONS:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (exempt).

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Occasional travel. Non-standard or extended work may be required based on project needs.

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.

Job Evaluation Activity: 1/28/04 SJB