Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nationwide is a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, and they are seeking an experienced actuarial professional for their Professional Lines Pricing team. The Actuarial Sr. Consultant will lead pricing analysis and strategy, acting as a key partner to underwriting leaders, while also supporting broader business decisions and modeling initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead actuarial pricing analysis and strategy support for Professional Lines products and portfolios
- Act as a primary actuarial point of contact for underwriting leaders, helping connect analysis to business strategy and portfolio decisions
- Perform and communicate actuarial analysis in a way that supports changes to the book, pricing recommendations, and broader business decisions
- Partner across actuarial and business functions to evaluate performance, identify opportunities, and influence next steps
- Support modeling-related work over time, particularly as future projects develop across the team’s portfolio
- Acts a technical expert of actuarial methodologies allowing the ability to source and manipulate data within standard requirements
- 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. Begins using results to influence decisions at a higher level
- Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources and considerations in an organized fashion
- Prepares and presents actuarial findings and documents that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the senior Actuarial leadership level. May professionally represent company's position with regulators, auditors and external vendors. May negotiate within defined parameters
- Develops cross functional work plans and ensures accurate work product is delivered
- Leads cross functional peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work and drive innovation
- Builds business relationships and leads cross functional communication with team members, customers and business partners
- Leads onboarding and training for new associates on standard work processes. Assists in creating new training materials
- Applies data mining techniques used to identify new relationships in data and make recommendations based on findings. Has expert ability or knowledge of modeling, validation and predictive modeling. Explores the use of new software packages and makes recommendations
Skills
- Strong actuarial pricing experience in Property & Casualty insurance, with the ability to work independently and operate as a senior business-facing partner
- Ability to communicate effectively with underwriting leaders and other business partners, not just perform technical analysis
- Strong actuarial foundation in technical tools such as Excel, SQL, and Python
- Detailed familiarity with business operations, systems, and actuarial methodologies
- Adept at complex actuarial techniques and work independently to combine advanced actuarial and business knowledge to provide high-level analysis
- Expertise to provide consultation and recommendations on deliverables and maintain detailed documentation of actuarial models and analyses
- Generally six or more years of actuarial experience
- Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis
- Generally attained ACAS and is working towards FCAS or recently attained FCAS
- Detailed knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products, analytical software and programming languages
- Basic competencies including command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective and accounting
- Proficient competencies including business understanding, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results and learning ability
- Professional Lines experience is strongly preferred
- Background in a smaller carrier or similarly hands-on environment where you have needed to work broadly across pricing, strategy, and technical analysis
- Modeling experience, especially for candidates who can pair pricing expertise with broader analytical or predictive-modeling capability
- Experience with Python, R, or similar coding tools
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision
- 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
Company Overview
Nationwide focuses on providing life and commercial insurance benefits along with home, business, renter and auto insurance services. It was founded in 1925, and is headquartered in Florence, Kentucky, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://agency.nationwide.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Nationwide has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2026, 8 in 2023, 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.