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Our 12-month placement gives you a valuable first look at what it’s like to work here, with real responsibility and accountability. Choose which discipline best suits your interest and skill set from Marketing, Product Specialist (Investment) and Change.
You’ll be based within one business area throughout your time with us, developing your experience and knowledge. We view our Industrial Placements as a pipeline into our Graduate Programmes.
With all our Early Career opportunities, you will not need to relocate. At Nationwide, where we work is led by what we’re doing. Sometimes that means meeting up at one of our hubs, and often it means working from home or a nearby office.
We don’t ask for you to be studying towards a certain degree subject for our Industrial Placements. However, you must be at university and looking to complete this placement as part of your degree, returning to university for your final year once this placement is completed.
Please ensure you apply early, due to the popularity of our Industrial Placements we will close adverts before the application deadline if sufficient application numbers have been reached.
What you’ll be doing
Marketing Industrial Placement
As part of our Marketing Industrial Placement, you’ll be part of a team which covers all areas of the marketing, communications and public relations mix:
- Working with creative and media agencies to produce brand communications that touch our 15 million members
- Planning and delivering marketing campaigns across all our customer facing channels including digital, social media in branch and through 121 marketing and advertising
- Working with our customer facing channels on the successful implementation of campaigns
- Producing communications for a broad range of audiences, including our 18000 employees through internal communications, as well as industry influencers, government and media through Media Relations
This role will be a hybrid working opportunity in a team located in our Swindon, Bournemouth or London office, with the option to work in a hub located near to you.
You could be placed in one of a number of teams which will help you build your knowledge across Marketing, Communications and Public Relations. We can promise that every role will give you variety, purpose and visibility across the organisation.
Product Specialist (Investment) Industrial Placement
Working within our team of expert product, investment and risk specialists you’ll help us to partner with our distribution colleagues and expert third parties to improve the customer experience. You will be helping to ensure that our propositions continue to give our members a rewarding investment experience and deliver our competitive edge.
This role will suit a candidate with strong analytical ability and good communication skills combined with an enthusiasm for delivering for customers. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to learn about investments and regulated financial planning while making a difference for members. Although this role involves remote working, as a team we try to get together several times a month at one of our Swindon sites.
As a Product Specialist you will have the opportunity of working on a number of assignments and your working week will be varied and interesting. You may be helping to develop a new product or service or using data and feedback to improve an existing proposition. You might be working with Marketing or our Digital team to improve customer communications and member engagement. Whatever the work priorities you will have the opportunity to own your own deliverables and deliver as part of a supportive team.
You’ll be fully trained and supported so you have all the tools you need to succeed.
Change Industrial Placement
As a change professional you will take a hands-on role in shaping and delivering initiatives which deliver value to our Members and colleagues alike, and with opportunities across Member Missions, Cyber Security, Digital, Cloud-based Services, Data & Analytics, Workplace Transformation and Payments, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
You will get the opportunity to see and experience change delivery from the perspective of different roles. This could see you taking responsibility for shaping early ideas for change, capturing and analysing user requirements, engaging and managing stakeholders, managing risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, leading teams to deliver against key outcomes, preparing the business for change and implementing solutions.
You will get out what you put in during your time on the placement, so come with an open mind and a desire to learn as you rotate around the business. We view our Industrial Placements as a pipeline into our Graduate Programme.
About you
We’re all about the power of the collective, so you’ll be using your good communication skills to build strong and lasting working relationships. You’ll be a quick learner, inquisitive, always focused on solutions and have the tenacity to bring them to life. In this digital age, we need people who are familiar with all the apps and devices that make our world go around too.
Our members are at the heart of everything we do, so a passion for providing excellent customer service is a must. The path to the right result is rarely straightforward so you’ll have to be comfortable navigating challenges and managing ambiguity. As a high performing, ambitious deliverer, we’ll rely on you to be decisive, organised and proactive.
We’re also interested in who you are as a person. Why? Because our membership is made up of so many different kinds of people, so we want our employees to be just as diverse. We’d love to hear about:
- Your values, and what makes you who you are
- How you’d make a difference to our members in this role
The extras you’ll get
As well as a fixed-term contract and a competitive starting salary (£19,100 pa), as a valued member of the team we offer you:
- A 12 month placement from Sept 2023 – Sept 2024
- A real job – you’ll be contributing to the organisation while you learn
- A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
- Life assurance worth 8x your salary
- A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Access to an annual performance related bonus
- Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
- 25 days holiday
Why work at Nationwide
We’re different from other financial service providers. We’re a building society, owned by our members. And for over 130 years, we’ve supported those members to make the most of their money and achieve what they want from life.
That’s reflected in the way we work here at Nationwide. We come together to make sure we’re doing things in the best way possible, both for each other and for our members. If you join us, you’ll be part of that. You’ll be able to help us build something really quite special. And you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference.
On top of that, we always want you to be yourself. To use your skills and experience to make our Society stronger. To feel valued for who you are, not just what you do. Because here at Nationwide, we understand that we can do more together than we ever could alone.
What to do next
If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up to date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
We’ll send you our online assessments to complete and there will also be a short video interview to find out more about you. Should your application be taken to the next stage, you’ll then be invited to attend one of our Virtual assessment centres which run from December through to February. More details on our Industrial Placement schemes can be found at https://www.nationwide-jobs.co.uk/early-careers/industrial-placements/
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.
For more information on our application process and useful hints and tips, please visit https://www.nationwide-jobs.co.uk/application-hints-and-tips/
If you have any further questions, please contact us at Emerging.Talent@nationwide.co.uk
Good luck!
