Head of Complex Lending Products - Business Banking

Head of Complex Lending Products - Business Banking

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Northampton, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Head of Complex Lending Products is accountable for shaping, delivering and managing Nationwide’s complex business lending proposition across SME and corporate segments. The role leads product strategy, roadmap, commercial performance, customer outcomes and end-to-end lifecycle management across lending solutions including term lending, revolving credit, asset finance, invoice finance, trade finance, working capital and specialist or structured lending. Working closely with Credit Risk, Coverage, Digital, Data, Operations, Finance, Legal, Compliance and Transformation, the role ensures our complex lending products are competitive, scalable, well controlled and aligned to Nationwide’s mutual purpose.

This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to help build the UK’s first full-service mutual business banking function and shape how Nationwide supports SMEs and corporates with the finance they need to grow, invest and trade with confidence.

Reporting to the Director of Group Business Products, you will lead the strategy, design, delivery and in-life management of our complex lending portfolio, ensuring we combine the speed, simplicity and digital experience customers expect from the best challenger banking institutions with the relationship expertise, credit discipline and structuring capability of leading established banking organisations.

You will be the senior product leader for lending propositions that matter to businesses at different stages of growth: from SMEs needing fast, transparent access to working capital through to larger corporate customers requiring more tailored, structured or sector-specific finance.

The role spans the full product lifecycle: market insight, customer discovery, proposition design, credit-risk alignment, pricing, business requirements, delivery, launch, distribution, servicing, portfolio optimisation and controlled exit where required.

You will modernise complex lending for customers and colleagues by simplifying origination, improving decisioning and workflow ensuring our propositions deliver fair value, responsible lending and long-term business resilience in line with Nationwide’s mutual model.

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, or if parttime you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our London, Glasgow or Northampton office.
If you're based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. Alternatively, you'll be located at our Edinburgh hub
. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events, this is expected to be weekly in Edinburgh. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

You’ll be employed by Nationwide from day one, delivering real impact and benefit ting from a highly competitive range of benefits. We’re a workplace where you’re rewarded, recognised and celebrated.

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.

• Private medical insurance
• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development to help you progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Up to 2 days of paid…