The placement offers an opportunity to experience how products, services and change initiatives are developed within a large financial services organisation. Rather than specialising immediately in one area, you'll gain broad experience and develop a better understanding of where your interests and strengths lie. You’ll gain opportunities to understand customer needs, identify improvements and help deliver better experiences for members.

No two days are the same. Activities could include supporting projects, analysing information, contributing to change initiatives, preparing presentations, engaging with stakeholders, coordinating activities and helping solve business problems. You'll work with colleagues across the organisation and gain experience of how ideas are turned into meaningful outcomes.

Exposure to tools such as Microsoft 365, Jira and Confluence will help build practical experience of how teams collaborate, manage work and deliver change successfully.

Along the way, you'll develop transferable skills in communication, stakeholder engagement, project coordination, problem solving, teamwork and business awareness. The placement places strong emphasis on learning, potential and future development rather than previous experience.

There will also be opportunities to explore future career paths in change and delivery while building professional networks across Nationwide.

Who we're looking for on the Product & Change Industrial Placement - Mortgages

We're looking for curious, motivated people who enjoy solving problems, learning new skills and working with others. You'll share our determination to push for better and put customers first in the decisions you make. Whatever your route, this placement will help you gain valuable experience while exploring where a future career in product, change and delivery could take you.

To succeed on our Product & Change Industrial Placement, you'll need to show:

• An interest in business change, project delivery, product development or business analysis.
• Confidence working with people, solving problems and contributing ideas.
• Curiosity about how products, services and customer experiences are improved.
• The ambition to keep growing, take on new challenges and build towards your next career step.
• A logical, methodical approach, with the ability to understand both the detail and the bigger picture.
• The confidence to build relationships and work with colleagues across the business.
• Drive, high performance and a commitment to learning from feedback and setbacks.
• A determination to push for better and put customers first in the decisions you make.

Eligibility

You must be studying towards an undergraduate degree in any discipline. (Add any specific degree requirement here if stated as essential by the business area)

Our customer first behaviours

• 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 development
• Get it done – We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes.

QUALIFICATIONS

The extras you’ll get

High performing and purpose-driven colleagues deserve a rewarding career and competitive benefits to match. We offer you:

• Structured learning, personalised development and hands-on experience to help you build future-ready skills and progress your career in banking
• 25 days holiday each year, which increases over time to 30. Plus, you can ‘buy’ up to 10 extra days
• The opportunity to earn an annual bonus based on your performance
• Private medical insurance to help you access additional healthcare when you need it
• Wellhub access to a range of free and paid fitness and wellbeing options, plus free on-site gyms at selected locations
• A highly competitive pension to help you start building your financial future
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Up to 14 paid hours each year to volunteer for a cause that matters to you
• Life assurance to provide additional peace of mind for you and the people who matter to you

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button, where you’ll be asked to 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. If you are successful, you could be selected to attend one of our assessment centres which run from December 2026.

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If you have any further questions, please contact us at Early.Careers@nationwide.co.uk