Nationwide
Colleague Engagement Lead Manager - Events
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Experienced Events Leader Opportunity
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.
Responsibilities
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, roundtables, 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.
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The team’s remit spans colleague events, customer events, and leadership engagement. This includes all-colleague calls, conferences, customer roundtables, sector events, relationship events, speaking engagements, and other significant internal and external appearances.
About You
- Significant experience leading complex internal, corporate, customer, or experiential events, including the successful delivery of high-profile events involving senior leaders, customers, and external audiences.
- An experienced people leader who can motivate teams, build confidence, and maintain high standards.
- A strong strategic mindset, with experience developing event strategies, programmes, and delivery roadmaps that support business, customer, and cultural outcomes.
- Experience managing significant budgets, suppliers, agencies, venues, and production partners, with a strong understanding of event governance, accessibility, health and safety, customer care, and reputational risk.
- Excellent programme management, organisational, and prioritisation skills, with the ability to oversee multiple events and competing priorities simultaneously.
- Confidence influencing senior stakeholders, building trusted relationships across teams and external partners, and constructively challenging activity that lacks a clear objective or audience need.
- Experience in agenda development, speaker management, attendee experience, and event communications, using insight and feedback to measure success and drive continuous improvement.
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Qualifications
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
- 25 days holiday, pro rata
- 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 volunteering a year
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