Collections Consultant in Northampton

As a Collections Consultant, you’ll be required to speak with our customers respectfully and empathetically to fully understand their circumstances and work through the options available. Using in-depth questioning skills, you will build a great rapport to guide them over the phone to achieve the best mutual outcome.

If you’re a team player, able to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment and demonstrate consistent commitment in putting our customers first, then this could be the role for you.

The team cover our core business hours between 8am-8pm, working Monday–Friday and one in three Saturdays. When you work a Saturday, you'll get this time back elsewhere in the week. You will work contracted shifts on a rotational basis and will be given 8 weeks’ notice of your shift pattern.

Training will be provided for this role and is typically 9 weeks in duration, with the entire first and the 6th week being on site at our office in Northampton. The training will be Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Nationwide will cover the costs of your first week of training if you require accommodation and travel. We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best. This role can be between 28 and 35 hours a week. 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, Northampton, Bournemouth, Dunfermline, Wakefield or Sheffield 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.

At Nationwide we believe in helping others, and that’s where you come in. We’re looking for people with a positive and inquisitive mindset and a commitment to support our customers when they need it most. Your role will be to help our customers who are facing financial difficulty. This will entail having honest conversations about their personal and financial situation to enable you to establish which options are most suitable to get them back on track.

This is a telephone-based role that will involve speaking directly with customers, showing sensitivity and empathy to our customers through what can be difficult and often sensitive conversations. This will require you to have a level of personal resilience.

For this role you’ll need to:

• Be resident and eligible to work in the UK
• Be based within a commutable distance from one of our offices or hubs as per our hybrid working policy
• Be responsible and accountable for always keeping our members' data safe and secure
• Have access to a dedicated workspace free from all distractions
• Have access to a private, stable and fast broadband connection

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.

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

• 25 days holiday, pro rata
• 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

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.

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. Once we’ve received your application successfully, we will invite you to the first stage; our online assessments!

Within a few hours you’ll receive a link to your unique candidate hub – here we’ll ask you to complete some online assessments within 48 hours of applying; these include a situational judgement test, checking and numerical assessments – all focussed around what’s important to us in a member facing role at Nationwide.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.