(Intern) Innovation Product Strategist Intern

If you're passionate about helping a Fortune 100 company drive their strategy forward through innovative product development and advancing strategic partnerships to protect customers (and their pets), then Nationwide's Strategy and Corporate Development Office might be the place for you!

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The Innovation team at Nationwide is focused on enabling Enterprise Strategies by developing new or reimagined products, services, businesses, and experiences that solve real customer needs.  We are critical enablers of core business success and also imaginative thought leaders for the organization. We are the group that is charged with taking calculated bets to transform our company and industry before someone else does. 

Role: On the Enterprise Innovation team, your experience and role on the team will include:
•    Immersion: Participating as a team member / contributor directly across one or multiple of our product innovation or advisory teams
•    Development: Learning and developing product innovation / strategy skills while also gaining a broader understanding of Nationwide
Responsibilities: 
Leading real work: Owning multiple projects that move the organization forward, including planning, collaborating and executing a series of analyses. 
Relevant strategic analyses:
o    Market Analysis:  Analyzing the competitive landscape, interpreting marketplace and sector trends, and understanding of economic drivers in a value chain
o    Opportunity Identification:  Identifying underlying business opportunities at the intersection of user needs and potential solutions spaces
o    Hypothesis Development:  Ideating elements of potential business models / products with an outline of critical assumptions that must be true for a solution to work
o    Business Modeling: Designing business model prototypes that bring to life critical assumptions

Skills/Qualifications Desired:
Desired Experience
•    Previous roles / background across business strategy, product management, or financial analysis 
•    Developing business strategies and financial models
•    Leadership on project-based work
Skills Desired
 •    Strategic Problem solving - Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to evaluate opportunities from multiple angles to see a path forward.
•    Financial Modeling – Ability to develop evaluative models that apply strategic and financial assumptions
•    Project Management - Strong project management skills such as organization, planning, interaction, collaboration and motivational techniques.
•    Relationship and Communication - Excellent relationship building skills. Good verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate across various levels of the organization. Operates effectively in an environment of deadlines and high workloads.