GC&C Customer Strategy, Propositions & Change Delivery Industrial Placement in Swindon

Our Customer Strategy and GCC Change teams work together to understand what customers need, shape how Nationwide responds and help turn priorities into action. Their work brings customer, market and business insight together with the planning and coordination needed to deliver better outcomes. Across the year, you’ll spend six months in each team.

In Customer Strategy, you’ll use insight and evidence to identify opportunities, support strategic recommendations and help develop inclusive propositions. In GCC Change, you’ll help plan and coordinate change, understand customer impacts, risks and dependencies, and contribute to reporting and decision-making. You’ll attend development workshops and complete a project with other industrial placement students aligned to our Social Impact strategy. By the end of the placement, you’ll understand how customer strategy and change delivery connect, with practical experience and transferable skills to support your future career.

You’ll be part of our Group Customer & Communications function, working across our Customer Strategy and GCC Change teams. Together, they shape how Nationwide responds to customer needs and turn strategic priorities into practical, well-controlled change. You’ll work with colleagues across the function and wider Society, gaining experience of how different perspectives, risks and dependencies come together to support good customer outcomes.

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 Head office.

This is your opportunity to explore how a customer need can grow into an idea and become meaningful change. Across the placement, you’ll play a part in shaping thinking and helping put it into action for our customers. Across two six-month rotations, you’ll gain practical experience of shaping customer strategy and helping turn priorities into action.

In Customer Strategy, you’ll analyse customer, market and business insight, bring findings together in clear presentations and contribute to recommendations and inclusive propositions. In GCC Change, you’ll support the planning and coordination of change, track actions and dependencies, prepare updates for decision-making meetings and work with stakeholders to understand the impact on customers. Working alongside experienced colleagues, you’ll learn how ideas move from strategy into delivery and how change is managed carefully across Nationwide.

Your placement begins with an induction and structured support to help you settle in and understand your role. Throughout the year, you’ll follow a personalised learning pathway and complete a 12-month project aligned to our Social Impact strategy with other industrial placement students, giving you the chance to apply your skills in a different context, build connections and grow in confidence.

Please note, you must be currently in your second year of a university degree to be able to apply for this vacancy. We’re looking for curious, motivated people who enjoy understanding how things work, bringing different information together and working with others to make things better for customers. You’ll share our determination to push for better and be ready to turn ideas into action. You don’t need specialist experience in strategy or change management. What matters is your willingness to learn, ask thoughtful questions and consider different perspectives.

To succeed on this Industrial Placement, you’ll need to show:

• Curiosity and the ability to think critically, connect information and identify opportunities.
• Confidence using evidence to solve problems and form a clear point of view.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to present ideas simply.
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to build relationships with different people.
• Adaptability, good organisation and a willingness to learn as priorities develop.

You must be studying towards an undergraduate degree. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 will 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.