Senior Actuary - Personal Lines State Pricing - REMOTE

About The Role

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Actuary specializing in Personal Lines Auto & Home Pricing. This pivotal role involves leading and owning pricing decisions for states in our Northeastern region and collaborating closely with business partners. This is a key member of our leadership team, driving a partnership-driven approach.

As a Senior Actuary, you’ll be an expert providing leadership direction and oversight for the creation and performance of complex actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. You’ll manage research and direct others to ensure efficient, consistent, and integrated data and analysis. We’ll count on you to provide a strategic vision for the team and deliver business recommendations crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide our customers. You’ll work independently and may lead others (directly and/or indirectly).

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5-6 pricing actuaries and own pricing decisions for the Northeastern region, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Serve as a mentor and coach to support the career development of the team’s junior actuaries.
• Act as a thought leader on actuarial methodologies, conducting and leading comprehensive analyses and work plans to ensure quality and accuracy.
• Engage with business partners to assess and enhance pricing capabilities in the market.
• Act as technical expert of actuarial methodologies, sourcing and manipulating data within standard requirements, and identifying new ways to utilize data driving overall strategic vision.
• Conduct 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.
• Accurately document assumptions, methods, sources, and considerations in an organized fashion.
• Create cohesive presentations and recommendations of actuarial findings suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the OCFO leadership level.
• May professionally represent the company's position with regulators, auditors, and external vendors, and negotiate within defined parameters.
• Responsible for strategic development and oversight of multiple work plans ensuring accurate and timely delivery of product.
• Strategic leader of peer review process, driving collaboration cross-functionally, identifying gaps in process, recommending, and implementing changes to ensure quality work.
• Build strategic business relationships at all levels of the organization to drive solution delivery.
• Responsible for identifying skill gaps and developing training materials to enhance associates' skills for future business needs.
• Advise on strategic data mining techniques to identify new relationships in data and make recommendations on data and software packages that help drive strategic vision.
• Consult and provide expert advice on new or enhanced product development opportunities, including discussions on data needed for analysis, coding implications, and opinions on viability and profitability of proposals.

Qualifications

• ACAS is required; FCAS is preferred.
• Minimum of eight years of actuarial experience.
• Strong background in pricing and product knowledge; proficiency in SQL and Python are preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment and manage changing priorities effectively.
• Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science, or similar background requiring modeling, programming, or quantitative analysis is preferred.

Skills

• Expert knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software, and databases.
• Expert knowledge of company operations, products, systems, and actuarial methodologies.
• Expert knowledge of company, industry, and regulatory practices.
• Mastery of Microsoft Office products, analytical software, and programming languages.
• Proficient level of organizational agility and conflict management.
• Proficient level of command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective, and accounting.
• Mastery level of perspective, problem-solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, and learning.

Cultural Fit

We seek candidates who are adaptable, proactive, and eager to support a development-focused team culture. The ideal candidate will be a curious consumer of diverse actuarial work products and an effective business partner.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance and short/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 and 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Company-paid pension plan.
• Business casual attire.

Pay

The national salary range for this position is $149,000.00 - $262,000.00. The expected starting salary range is $149,000.00 - $223,000.00. Placement within the actual starting salary range will be determined by skills, education, training, credentials, experience, scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market.

Schedule

This position can be fully remote and is eligible for a remote or hybrid work environment. Overtime eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible).