Job Description

Good things this way

If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems, our Data & Analytics Development Programme - Mortgages provides a structured route into a rewarding career in banking.

Help turn customer, product and market data into insights that influence decisions, improve customer outcomes and shape the future of Nationwide's mortgage business.

Whether you're a graduate ready to make an impact, or a career changer looking for a new challenge, you'll gain hands-on experience, develop future-ready skills, and contribute to projects that deliver banking that's fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

You'll follow a tailored learning pathway designed to build the skills you'll need for the future of financial services. Through digital learning, interactive workshops, insights from leaders and industry experts, and hands-on experience in your role, you'll have plenty of opportunities to put your learning into practice. You'll also learn alongside colleagues from across Nationwide, helping you build your network and understand more about how our business works.

We'll support your development through structured learning, personalised development and hands-on experience, helping you grow with confidence.

Looking for a rewarding career in banking? Good things this way.

Where you'll be working

You'll join our Mortgages function, helping turn data, customer insight and market intelligence into meaningful actions that influence products, pricing and customer experiences. Working alongside experienced colleagues, you'll help uncover trends, identify opportunities and support decisions that improve outcomes for customers and the business.

Exposure to customer behaviour, market trends, pricing performance and data-driven decision making will help build a strong understanding of how insight supports the development of mortgage products and services.

Location

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, based at our Swindon office.

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.

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing on the Data & Analytics Development Programme - Mortgages

Our Data & Analytics Development Programme intake date is 6th September 2027.

During the programme, you'll join high-performing teams that support customer insight, analytics, product performance and data-driven decision making.

You'll start with an induction, where you'll learn more about Nationwide, connect with colleagues and build the foundations for your role. You'll then join your team and follow a personalised learning pathway that brings together hands-on experience, role-specific training, digital learning and interactive workshops. You'll also hear from leaders and industry experts, giving you fresh perspectives and practical ideas you can apply in your day-to-day work.

The programme provides opportunities to work with customer, product and market data, helping build specialist expertise while gaining an understanding of how data and insight support strategic business decisions.

No two days are the same. Activities could include analysing customer and product data, identifying trends, generating insight, supporting pricing decisions and helping shape improvements to products and customer journeys. Working with colleagues across Mortgages, you'll help translate information into actions that create better outcomes for customers.

The programme develops expertise in analytics, problem solving, stakeholder engagement and commercial awareness. Along the way, you'll gain valuable insight into how data influences decisions relating to products, customer experience and business performance.

There will also be opportunities to explore emerging technologies, machine learning and AI-enabled approaches that support insight generation and better decision making.

Build the experience, skills and confidence to progress towards Assistant Product Manager or related specialist roles within the Mortgages function.

Who we're looking for on the Data & Analytics Development Programme - Mortgages

We're looking for driven, curious people with high standards and a genuine interest in Data & Analytics. 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 Data & Analytics Development Programme will help you build the skills and experience for a rewarding career in banking.

To succeed on our Data & Analytics Development Programme, you'll need to show:

• An interest in data, analytics and customer insight.

• Confidence interpreting information and using evidence to support decisions.

• Curiosity about customer behaviour, market trends and business performance.

• 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 December 2026.

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