Paid Digital Marketing Consultant

Location

Swindon / Wiltshire

Other Locations

London / Greater London

Salary

Circa £35,000 per annum

Contract

Permanent (Full Time)

Reference

422

Closing Date

23 September 2025

Job description

We\’re looking for a driven Paid Digital Marketing Executive, to join our passionate Paid Digital Team. This is a key role where you\’ll take ownership of our affiliate marketing channel, working closely with our media agency and internal teams to drive performance. From nurturing existing affiliate partnerships to identifying new opportunities for growth, you\’ll be at the heart of our paid acquisition strategy.

You\’ll work cross-functionally with internal and external teams to deliver the annual plans and manage performance, ensuring KPIs and ROI targets are met. You\’ll lead on forecasting, budget and spend management, ensuring all acquisition is cost efficient.

Alongside management of our affiliate marketing channels, you\’ll also play an active role in supporting the wider team across other paid channels include paid search (PPC).

This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated digital marketing professional to take ownership of a key growth channel and make a real impact within a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

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 either our Swindon, London or Bournemouth office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

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.

What you\’ll be doing

In this role, you\’ll be responsible for the day-to-day performance of the affiliate marketing channel, ensuring KPIs and ROI targets are met. Using your stakeholder management and influencing skills, you\’ll build strong relationships with our affiliate partners and media agency, ensuring effective communication and alignment.

You\’ll have an eye for detail and be able to pull together reports and performance updates, as well being able to identify new opportunities for growth and see those ideas through to implementation. You\’ll lead on forecasting, budget and spend management, and ensuring affiliates are paid in a timely manner.

You will play a key role within the wider Paid Digital team by supporting with reporting and assisting with the management of other paid channels including PPC where required.

About you

We\’re looking for someone who has/is:

• Experience in digital marketing, with previous exposure to managing affiliate partnerships highly desirable
• Strong commercial awareness and analytical skills, with the ability to manage performance against KPIs and spot opportunities for growth
• Confident in analysing and interpreting data to identify trends and opportunities and pull together performance reports and charts
• Skilled at managing and influencing both internal teams and external stakeholders
• Highly organised, with excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• A self-starter and highly motivated

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

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

The extras you\’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we\’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the \’Apply Now\’ button. You\’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

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.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role the job title on our internal systems will be Marketing & Corporate Affairs Consultant.