Sr Consultant, People Data Scientist - Human Resources
Nationwide
People & HR, Data Science
Columbus, OH, USA
USD 138k-206k / year
Sr Consultant, People Data Scientist - Human Resources is central to advancing People Analytics from reporting toward stronger analysis, modeling, and decision support. It combines technical depth, business acumen, and stakeholder partnership to turn people data into actionable insight.
In practical terms, the role will accelerate several priority outcomes:
Foundational analytics and modeling for Retirement and other priority workforce questions
2026 strategy to stabilize foundations, scale insights, and launch predictive pilots
Partnership and integration of HR’s predictive and advisory capability
The preferred candidate will bring advanced analytics expertise, consulting presence, business acumen, and sound judgment in handling sensitive people data. They should be able to translate complex analysis into decision-ready insight, influence stakeholders effectively, and connect their work to measurable business outcomes.
The preferred candidate should bring strength in the following areas:
Drives faster delivery of analytics by translating complex work into timely, decision-ready insights
Leads Retirement analysis and other high-priority predictive efforts that support workforce and business decisions
Builds confidence with leaders through strong stakeholder navigation, clear communication, and trusted advisory support
Applies advanced analytics and modeling to solve complex people and business questions with practical impact
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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. Helps develop and deliver the People Analytics strategy.
Provides expert consultation and thought leadership to HR executives, business partners, 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.
Develops, maintains, 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: Undergraduate 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 experience performing statistical analytics and modeling, using quantitative and qualitative applications, techniques, and tools. Experience 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 experience using machine learning, regression analysis, sampling methods and other quantitative and qualitative statistical applications, approaches, and techniques. Possess consulting, influencing, facilitation, and storytelling expertise in articulating data insights. Proven expertise to analyze, interpret and connect data to business outcomes that supports business goals and objectives. Advanced proficiency with Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint. Advanced and applied knowledge to consult and advise around complex situations or business needs. Demonstrated expertise of project management skills including effectively planning and managing diverse initiatives to achieve desired results.
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 Human Resource Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not eligible)
Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Some travel may be necessary.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people 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.
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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 Sr Consultant, People Data Scientist - HR : $138,000.00-$243,000.00The expected starting salary range for Sr Consultant, People Data Scientist - HR : $138,000.00 - $206,000.00