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At Nationwide we spend over £500m each year introducing new products and services, simplifying our IT infrastructure, complying with new legislation and regulations, and developing innovative new technology.
As a member led organisation, this means delivering change that meets our members’ needs and delivering an excellent member and colleague experience.
We’re also no strangers to innovation having been the first in the UK to launch an internet bank, joint first with Apple pay and implementing leading-edge Cisco technology in our branches. This, coupled with our advancements in agile ways of working and a refreshed change delivery operating model, makes it a very exciting time to start working at Nationwide.
We openly put our 16 million members at the centre of every decision we make as a business. Every role, no matter what it’s doing, is member focused. We need graduates who are go-getters; ambitious, driven, and full of curiosity. And we promise to give you all the opportunities you can handle to continue learning and developing to achieve your career goals.
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. You can find out more about our Happily Hybrid approach in our Future of Work section.
We don’t ask for you to have achieved a certain degree subject or classification for this Graduate role, but you must have a degree (or will have completed your degree by the time you start with us in September 2023) in order to be eligible to apply.
Please ensure you apply early, due to the popularity of our Graduate roles we will close adverts before the application deadline if sufficient application numbers have been reached.
What you’ll be doing
Over the course of this 2-year Graduate programme you will experience a range of change initiatives spanning different strategic themes and varying in size, scale and complexity. You will be exposed to a range of delivery methodologies and concepts, and you will benefit from a wide range of learning and development opportunities.
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, before specialising in the one that’s right for you. 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 programme so come with an open mind and a desire to learn as you rotate around the business.
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.
The extras you’ll get
As well as a permanent contract and a competitive starting salary (£28,000 pa), as a valued member of the team we offer you:
- 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 Change Development Programme assessment centres which run from mid-November through to January.
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!
