Delivery Leader for Nationwide Pet Insurance

Position Overview

• Location Type: Work from anywhere supported
• Job Type: Full time
• Salary: Not specified

Nationwide's Information Technology team is seeking passionate individuals to drive innovation and adopt new technologies. NW Pet is a strategic growth area with a fast-paced delivery schedule for high-visibility projects. This is an opportunity for seasoned delivery leaders to guide development to on-time completions, impacting the Pet and NF bottom line. The role requires strong self-motivation, action orientation, and executive-level communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience working across business units is critical.
• Time management is critical to ensure all work completes on target.
• Experience with insurance, particularly the Pet insurance business, is important.
• Must be able to work across agile and waterfall projects.
• Strong executive-level communications are important.
• Self-motivated and action-oriented / strong driver.
• Scope control to ensure timelines can be achieved.
• Issue and Risk Management / Escalation.
• Strong dependency management and end-to-end schedule development.
• Strong financial management and forecasting accuracy.
• Experience with insurance systems, Salesforce, portals, APIs, and web front-ends are helpful.
• Ability to deliver multiple work items at a time.

Responsibilities

• Drive the end-to-end delivery of expected business outcomes and realization of benefits.
• Drive incremental value and planning, and define dependency scope.
• Apply secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Manage communication, critical issues, visibility, and change management guidance.
• Facilitate contract negotiations, statement of work development, and vendor oversight.
• Prioritize deliverables, handle complex issues/risks, and govern dependencies.
• Deliver status/health reports to track value delivery, optimize flow of value, and manage demand/capacity.
• Work with medium to large project/product financials.
• Serve as a professional resource to others in delivering business outcomes.
• Keep pace with software delivery and organizational change methods and tools.
• Understand relevant Financial and Agile/Lean/DevOps tools and techniques.

Company Information

• Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture.
• Nationwide is committed to delivering extraordinary care to its customers.
• Workday is aligned to the Pacific Time Zone.