Are you passionate about being part of a team at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their future? If so, then Nationwide Financial 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.
Job Description Summary
As the Vice President, you will lead exploration of high-potential priority growth initiatives identified by the Nationwide Financial Leadership Team (NFLT). You’ll help determine where focused, cross-functional effort can generate meaningful, additive growth across Nationwide Financial businesses.
Reporting directly to the President & COO, Nationwide Financial, you will operate at the intersection of customer needs, market opportunity, business capabilities, distribution, economics, and execution. You’ll translate sponsored initiatives into clear opportunity hypotheses, build fact-based recommendations, and mobilize the right partners to test, refine, and advance the most promising concepts. Growth opportunities are expected to complement and expand existing business strategies.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Explore and shape priority growth initiatives Lead exploration of business-line-adjacent growth initiatives, translating broad NFLT direction into focused questions, hypotheses, and choices.
Partner across NFLT to understand current business capabilities, unique business needs, customer opportunities, and potential expansion into new markets or distribution channels.
Assess whether opportunities are strategically attractive, additive to existing business strategies, financially compelling, operationally feasible, and appropriate for further investment.
Incubate, evaluate, and advance opportunities Convert priority initiatives into clear concepts, hypotheses, and testable value propositions.
Lead structured discovery, design, and evaluation work to determine whether an opportunity warrants further investment or should be stopped.
Build concise business cases that articulate the customer problem, strategic rationale, expected additive growth, target economics, required capabilities, risks, milestones, and decision points.
Design and oversee pilots, experiments, or other staged learning approaches that improve the quality and speed of investment decisions.
Establish clear transition criteria for moving an opportunity from exploration to an identified business-unit sponsor, scale, or deliberate stop.
Mobilize enterprise collaboration and decision-making Convene the right leaders and subject-matter experts across Nationwide Financial and the enterprise to assess opportunities and resolve key questions.
Create alignment around priorities, decision rights, milestones, and resource requirements without creating a parallel operating structure.
Prepare clear recommendations and decision materials for the President & COO, NFLT, and relevant leadership forums.
Partner across NFLT to ensure that opportunities are informed by operating realities and, when approved, have an accountable business-unit sponsor.
Surface dependencies, tradeoffs, and barriers early and help leaders make timely choices.
Build a repeatable growth discipline Establish practical methods, governance, tools, and performance measures for opportunity identification, incubation, and progression.
Maintain a transparent portfolio view of opportunities, including stage, owner, investment, expected value, key risks, and next decision.
Capture lessons learned and strengthen the organization’s ability to move from insight to tested concept to scaled business outcome.
Develop the role’s team, partner model, and resource base over time in line with the size and maturity of the opportunity portfolio.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
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