Consultant, Marketing Management (E&S Wholesale Insurance)

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.

Help shape how specialized insurance solutions reach the market.

Nationwide is looking for a Marketing Consultant to help grow our Excess & Surplus Lines (E&S) Wholesale business. In this role, you’ll turn business priorities, market insights, and customer needs into marketing strategies that help wholesale agents and brokers understand the value of Nationwide’s specialized solutions.

You’ll work at the intersection of strategy and execution—developing positioning and messaging, shaping integrated marketing plans, and partnering with experts across product, underwriting, distribution, creative, digital, media, communications, and marketing operations. Your work will help strengthen partner engagement, build awareness, and support business growth in a dynamic and specialized market.

This opportunity is a strong fit for a marketer who enjoys connecting the big picture to the details that bring it to life, is comfortable working with senior stakeholders, and wants to see their ideas move from insight to activation.

What you’ll do

• Develop product marketing strategies and messaging that increase awareness, consideration, and adoption of E&S Wholesale solutions among agents and brokers.
• Translate market research, customer and partner insights, product information, underwriting appetite, and competitive intelligence into clear, audience-focused stories.
• Partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams to identify priorities, define desired outcomes, and recommend marketing investments.
• Create project briefs and guide work with creative, content, digital, media, public relations, and channel partners.
• Support integrated campaigns across email, web, paid media, social, public relations, print, events, and other relevant channels.
• Build thought leadership and partner-facing content that demonstrates Nationwide’s expertise and differentiated value.
• Use performance data and market feedback to optimize campaigns, improve the partner experience, and inform future plans.
• Identify process, technology, and capability improvements that make marketing more effective and easier for partners to engage with.
• Build trusted relationships across marketing, product, underwriting, distribution, and business leadership.
• Stay current on E&S market dynamics, competitive trends, product priorities, and the evolving needs of wholesale partners.

What you’ll bring

• Experience developing and activating integrated marketing or product marketing strategies.

• Strong ability to turn complex products, market insights, and business goals into clear positioning and compelling messaging.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external or internal creative, media, digital, content, or communications partners.

• Comfort using performance data and customer insights to make decisions and improve outcomes.

• Strong communication, project management, and stakeholder-influence skills.

• Insurance, financial services, B2B, partner marketing, or experience marketing to distribution channels is helpful—but not the only path to success.

Why this role

• Make visible contributions to the growth of a specialized business with an important role in the insurance marketplace.

• Work across the full marketing mix, from strategy and positioning to campaigns, events, digital, media, public relations, and measurement.

• Partner with leaders and subject-matter experts across marketing, underwriting, product, and distribution.

• Build deeper expertise in B2B, partner, and product marketing while working in a collaborative environment.

This hybrid position may be based Columbus, OH or Scottsdale, AZ. Candidates located near a Nationwide campus will collaborate in office 2 days per week. Current Nationwide Remote Associates may also be considered.

Job Description Summary

Are you ready to put your marketing savvy, communications skills and data driven approach to work for one of the top brands in the insurance and financial services industry? If you want to influence a large marketing investment spend, drive business growth and profitable results using the best in class marketing technology, we want to hear from you!

As a Consultant, you are responsible for leading and/or assisting the overall development and execution of marketing strategies using highly advanced marketing principles and standard methodologies. You will execute on future business or marketing needs driven by quantitative data/research, competitive insights and/or consumer behaviors. We'll count on you to ensure a strong focus on end-to-end customer experience, delivering outstanding customer experience overall.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists in the development and execution of strategies and plans that ensure long term sustainable growth of the business. Synthesizes data and uses this understanding to support identification and innovation of business building solutions

• Leads projects and processes within area of responsibility to deliver results with multiple target completion dates and shifting priorities.

• Implements digital and traditional marketing tactics and media, including creative development process, planning, and execution.

• Collaborates on and/or may lead creative development, and provides feedback on look and feel. Develops creative briefs.

• Monitors emerging innovative trends in content, design and marketing tactics

• Reviews and uses customer insights and analytics and tools to understand and forecast market, competitor and customer needs and behavior, define appropriate target audiences, evaluate sufficiency, and effectively get results with data-based decisions.

• Ensures programs are on strategy and on schedule.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Manager/Director/AVP. This is an individual contributor role and may have an opportunity to manage a team based on organizational structure; may also lead virtual/project teams.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration or related field preferred. Master’s degree is a plus.

License/Certification/Designation: Technical financial services designations such as FINRA, CPCU, CLU, ChFC, FLMI considered a plus. Additional licensing may be required to hold this position; and associates will need to acquire the required Federal and/or state licenses/registrations within the time period designated by the business unit. Additional licenses/registrations may be required when new products and services are implemented. If an associate fails or is unable to acquire required licenses/registrations within the time period designated by the business unit, the associate will be ineligible to continue in the position.

Experience: Typically eight or more years related professional experience in marketing, strategy, consulting, financial services, or related field.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: In-depth knowledge of marketing methodologies, insurance and/or financial services products, distribution systems, and customers. Knowledge of project leadership concepts and methodologies. Possesses strong verbal and written skills needed to develop and review research studies, communicate research findings, market recommendations based on findings, and maintain relationships. Ability to lead and prioritize projects. Ability to function independently or in a team environment with limited supervision. Demonstrates core marketing proficiencies, including strategy development, utilization of insights and analytics, building brand equity and developing effective marketing communications. Skilled at customer focus, operating capabilities, personal effectiveness, and strategic capabilities.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Ability to work extended and/or non standard hours based on project load. Travel as required.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to the principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some associates assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: 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, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Consultant, Marketing Management : $97,000.00-$180,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Marketing Management : $97,000.00 - $145,000.00