Senior Corporate Media Relations Manager in London

As Senior Corporate Media Relations Manager, you will play a pivotal role in protecting and enhancing the reputation of the world’s largest building society. You will shape and deliver a high-impact corporate media strategy that positions Nationwide as a leading, purpose-driven financial institution with a distinctive mutual difference.

Operating at a senior level, you will advise executives, lead major media moments, and ensure our voice is clear, authoritative and aligned with our long-term strategic ambitions. You will lead proactive and reactive corporate media activity across UK business and financial media. This includes developing compelling narratives, anticipating issues and risks, identifying opportunities to strengthen Nationwide’s profile, and guiding senior leaders through complex or high-pressure situations.

You will champion editorial excellence, ensure communications are insight-driven, and maintain a calm, solutions-focused approach when the external environment moves quickly. Working closely with colleagues across Corporate Affairs, Group Customer & Communications and the wider leadership team, you will ensure our media engagement is rigorous, well-governed and reflective of Nationwide’s role in society.

You will help shape how the organisation explains its purpose, its performance, and its commitment to members, and support the development of Nationwide’s reputation as a Modern Mutual delivering a fairer, more rewarding banking experience. This role sits within Group Customer & Communications, the team responsible for strengthening Nationwide’s brand and reputation with customers, colleagues and society.

Its purpose is to ensure Nationwide’s voice is trusted and firmly anchored in member interests. By providing expert counsel, shaping high quality media engagement and supporting senior leaders, this role directly enhances public trust and bolsters Nationwide’s standing as a major UK financial institution with a unique mutual mission.

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, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at our London office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

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.

Employee Benefits:

• Access to 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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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.