Sr Consultant, People Data Scientist - Human Resources

About this role

If you’re passionate about becoming a Nationwide associate and believe you have the potential to be something great, let’s talk. At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

The Senior Consultant, People Data Scientist will advance People Analytics through workforce insight, strategic problem solving, and consultative partnership. In addition to delivering high-quality analytics, this individual will help shape the People Analytics strategy, roadmap, and service offerings to strengthen workforce intelligence and business value.

The ideal candidate uses sound judgment to frame business challenges, determine the analysis needed, and select approaches that balance rigor, practicality, and value. They are comfortable navigating ambiguity and translating complex workforce questions into actionable recommendations.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to: • Apply appropriate analytics tools, techniques, and models to address complex workforce and business challenges. • Leverage people analytics or workforce analytics expertise to understand workforce dynamics and organizational context. • Connect workforce analytics to business outcomes and strategic priorities. • Serve as a trusted advisor with executive presence, strong listening skills, sound judgment, and a consultative approach that builds credibility and influences stakeholders. • Translate complex findings into clear, decision-ready insights through effective communication and data storytelling. • Elevate analytical capabilities through coaching, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. • Demonstrate curiosity, innovation, and a continuous improvement mindset in solving workforce challenges.

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Job Description Summary Are you passionate about leveraging data to drive strategic decisions and business outcomes? At Nationwide, we value highly skilled, engaged, and knowledgeable team members who thrive in a work environment of empowerment, continuous improvement and personal growth and development. We operate with strategic agility and adaptability in addressing complex business problems and identifying new opportunities. If you are driven to innovate and optimize people data and analytics to attract, develop and retain the best talent in the industry, we want to know more about you!

As a Sr Consultant, People Data Scientist in our Human Resources People Analytics team, you will transform data by leveraging sophisticated analytical techniques that provide deeper insights, predict future trends, prescribe actionable recommendations, and enable better decisions. You will have a unique opportunity to make a significant impact by developing sophisticated analytic solutions, managing a quality data infrastructure, supporting cross-functional strategic projects, operationalizing human capital metrics, and delivering high-quality automated solutions and insights. Job Description Key Responsibilities:     

• Leads initiatives and drives innovation and strategic solutions that optimize business decisions . H elps develop and deliver the People Analytics strategy.    

• Provides expert consultation and thought leadership to HR e xecutives, b usiness p artners, and other key stakeholders on advanced analytics and data-driven solutions for key projects and initiatives .    

• Builds and maintains strong relationships with HR leaders, stakeholders, and others to drive strategic and operational initiatives.   

• D evelo ps , maint ains , and ensures compliance of HR data analytical strategy , analytics models, and project portfolio .  

• Leads complex projects using advanced data science tools and methodologies, performs quantitative and qualitative research and analytics, identifies opportunities, and recommends solutions across the associate life cycle.   

• Develops and tests hypotheses around trends and key drivers of associate behavior and performance, ensuring reliability, explainability, ethics, and responsibility.  

• Presents data analytic results , reports, and data visualizations in a simple, compelling manner when communicating findings, insights, and recommendations to HR, leaders, and stakeholders.  

• Partners with team members to manage data demands and help facilitate the implementation of data pipelines to support critical analytics and visualization.   

• Aligns with other enterprise data analytics teams to refine and improve consulting, methodology , competitive analysis, and measurement best practices.  

• Integrates internal and external research, providing key trends, correlations, and insights that enable better, informed decisions.   

• Ensures data quality, accuracy, completeness, and governance across all data analysis and reporting processes, while maintaining data security, privacy, and compliance.  

• Stays current on advanced people analytics and data science methodologies, practices, and tools.   

May perform other responsibilities as assigned .   

Reporting Relationships :   Reports to an AVP , People Analytics. This is an individual contributor role.

Typical Skills and Experiences:     

Education: U ndergraduate or graduate studies in statistics, engineering, math, data analytics, human resources, quantitative social science disciplines or related areas.

Experience: Typically , 10 or more years of related work experienc e performing statistical analy tics and modeling , using quantitative and qualitative applications, techniques , and tools. Expe rience in data visualization and reporting tools; analyzing large and complex datasets, both structured and unstructured; and working with HR systems and technologies .

Knowledge, Abilities, Skills :  Proven knowledge of Workday or similar HRIS systems in addition to people analytics platforms and tools used to house, report, and analyze people data. Understands and demonstrated

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