Business Product Owner Lead, PET Insurance - REMOTE

Role Overview

Business Product Owner Lead (PET Insurance) – Data & Analytics (Consultant, Business Delivery). You will serve as the Product Owner for the Data & Analytics scrum team supporting Nationwide’s Pet line, bridging business needs and IT solutions to maximize value from analytics and data-driven capabilities.

Responsibilities

Product Ownership

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for Pet analytics.
• Partner with business leaders to define business outcomes, success measures, and value priorities.
• Elicit, document, and refine requirements as epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Continuously prioritize backlog based on value, risk, dependencies, and capacity, balancing near-term and long-term strategy.
• Participate in agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, architects, and delivery partners to clarify intent and support delivery.
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements, usability expectations, and data quality/governance standards.
• Support stakeholder communication, alignment, and change readiness for analytics delivery.

Additional Focus Areas (as priorities evolve)

• Business Analysis: Analyze current/future processes and data needs; translate business problems into actionable requirements.
• Business Project Management: Plan and coordinate business-led initiatives (scope, timelines, milestones, risks, dependencies) and provide updates.
• UAT Planning & Execution: Define UAT strategies/test scenarios/acceptance criteria; coordinate execution and defect management; support production readiness and sign-off.
• Business Process & Performance Analysis: Define KPIs, dashboards, and reporting; identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities; support continuous improvement and benefits realization.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience delivering data and analytics solutions including reporting, dashboards, insights, or data-driven capabilities that support business decision-making.

Nice to Haves

• Not specified in the provided excerpt.