Colleague Engagement Lead Manager - Events

• Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Northampton, United Kingdom
• London, United Kingdom
• Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Swindon, United Kingdom

Are you an experienced events leader who understands how to turn a business strategy into an experience people can see, feel and remember? Can you create events that strengthen customer relationships, build colleague pride and give leaders a powerful platform to communicate? Do you combine creative thinking with the operational discipline needed to deliver complex events brilliantly?

Business Banking is entering an exciting period of transformation and growth. We’re building a new Engagement team to help colleagues and customers understand our strategy, connect with our ambitions and feel part of what comes next.

Events will play a vital role in bringing that strategy to life.

You’ll lead the strategic planning and delivery of high-profile internal and customer events across Business Banking. This will include colleague conferences, leadership engagement, customer conferences, round tables, sector events, relationship events and significant business milestones.

This is an opportunity to shape a new events capability, establish high standards and create experiences that deliver meaningful business, customer and colleague outcomes.

The Business Banking Engagement team brings together communications, events, colleague engagement, culture and learning and development.

The Events team will create one strategic view of Business Banking events, ensuring activity is purposeful, coordinated and aligned with the wider business strategy.

The team’s remit spans colleague events, customer events and leadership engagement. This includes all-colleague calls, conferences, customer round tables, sector events, relationship events, speaking engagements and other significant internal and external appearances.

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 jobyou'llspend at least two days per week, or if parttimeyou'llspend 40% of your working time, based at either our
Glasgow, Edinburgh, London or Northampton office.
Ifyou’rebased 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
. 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 .

Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role, if you’re an internal applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .

Virgin Money is now part of Nationwide

Nationwide acquired Virgin Money in October 2024. Virgin Money continues to serve customers on the high street, and there will be a phased and considered integration over the coming years.

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.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.
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