Together, these experiences will help you develop the skills, confidence and connections needed for a successful career.

This role has a direct impact on the experiences and outcomes of Nationwide's customers. By listening to customers, understanding their circumstances and providing appropriate support, you'll help customers access the services and solutions they need.

No two days are the same. Activities could include speaking with customers, understanding their needs, responding to queries, helping find solutions, collaborating with colleagues, reviewing customer feedback and identifying opportunities to improve services and processes.

Through your placements, you'll develop practical customer service skills alongside a broad range of transferable professional capabilities, including:

• Communication and relationship building
• Problem solving and decision making
• Managing sensitive conversations
• Supporting customers experiencing vulnerability
• Customer journey understanding
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Adaptability and resilience
• Customer insight and service improvement

The programme also provides valuable insight into operational processes and the importance of delivering fair outcomes. Along the way, you'll develop a deeper understanding of how customer needs, feedback and experiences help shape products, services and ways of working across Nationwide.

The pace of work is varied, with a mixture of planned activity and changing priorities. You'll often need to balance different customer needs, adapt to new situations and respond confidently to challenges as they arise.

Who we’re looking for on the Customer & Service Excellence Development Programme – Retail

We're looking for driven, curious people with high standards and a genuine interest in Customer & Service Excellence. You'll share our determination to push for better and put customers first, not just in what you deliver, but in every decision you make.

Whatever your route, our Customer & Service Excellence Development Programme will help you build the skills and experience needed for a rewarding career in banking.

To succeed on our Customer & Service Excellence Development Programme, you'll need to show:

• A genuine interest in helping and supporting customers.
• Empathy and the ability to understand different perspectives.
• Patience and confidence when managing challenging conversations.
• 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

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 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 January 2027.

Visa sponsorship information

As a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the applicable Immigration Rules and guidance (which are subject to change). The Skilled Worker route has specific requirements relating to skill level of the role and minimum salary expectations. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited or may not be possible for some programmes.

VISA Sponsorship cannot be offered on this programme.

All successful applicants with need to demonstrate their right to work in the UK on commencement of employment and for the duration of the programme applied for without requiring sponsorship.

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