Product & Project Management Industrial Placement - Mortgages

Job Description

If you are an ambitious go-getter who enjoys solving problems and learning new skills, our 12-month Industrial Placement provides a clear pathway into a rewarding career in banking. With no shareholders, you'll deliver real impact by shaping products and services for our 16 million members. You'll build trusted relationships across the organisation and learn from a network of high-performing colleagues, all working to deliver for customers, communities and society.

We'll support your development through workshops, simulations, accreditations and on-the-job learning, helping you grow with confidence. You'll also work on a green and sustainability strategy project work with other Placement colleagues and join an individual learning pathway to continuously develop your skills. Get more from your placement year as you thrive within our high-performance culture, experience hands-on learning, tailored training, and a strong support network.

Our Mortgages function brings together 3,000 colleagues, all working towards our mission to provide the best mortgage service in the UK. You'll work across our high-performing Mortgages Product teams, developing skills in product design, insight creation, and project management. You'll gain hands-on experience in pricing, performance, customer research, and process improvement.

On the Product and Project Management, Mortgages Industrial Placement, you'll gain the knowledge, skills and network to prepare you for a rewarding career in banking. You'll focus on building product knowledge and understanding performance, while contributing to product design, customer research, and process improvement across multiple projects. With rotations across the Mortgage Product team, you'll gain exposure to areas including pricing, customer insight, product development, and process efficiency, giving you a rounded view of how we deliver impact every day.

• Mortgage pricing, learning how we price our products to meet member needs whilst delivering the right commercial return
• Product development, helping us launch new products to meet member needs
• Data and insight; building skills in data analytics to help us understand our customers better
• Customer management, ensuring our products meet customer needs, deliver fair outcomes and operate in line with regulations

During the year you'll develop new analytical skills and commercial judgement, as well as giving you the opportunity to take insight and proposal papers to senior leaders and committees.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected. For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, based at our Bournemouth office.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

About you Please note, you must be currently in your second year of a university degree to be able to apply for this vacancy. We're looking for ambitious, purpose driven candidates who want to build a rewarding career in banking. You'll have a determination to push for better, and a focus on delivering for our 16 million members. You'll thrive in our high-performing culture, if:

• You're bold in living our customer first behaviours, you are innovative and have a growth mindset.
• Development is something you expect and embrace.
• You push for high performance - from yourself and those around you.
• You have a high standard of numerical, written, IT and verbal communication skills.
• You will have the ability to use your analytical skills to problem solve to identify trends, challenges and propose solutions.
• You can plan and deliver work with attention to detail.
• You have experience of trend identification, data science or tool development would be useful but not essential as training will be provided.

You must be studying toward an undergraduate degree in any discipline.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers' shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think - we're honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don't settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal…