Marketing Strategy Internship in Swindon

On our redesigned 10-week immersive Summer Internship, you’ll gain real experience, grow your confidence, and develop the skills and behaviours needed to thrive in a future Early Careers programme such as a 2027 Industrial Placement or Skill Development Programme. On our Marketing Strategy Summer Internship, you’ll work within our Group Customer & Communications function focusing on Strategy & Business Support. You’ll contribute to impactful work and learn from expert colleagues, taking part in workshops, networking events, and activities designed to accelerate your development. This internship is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact, understand Nationwide’s culture and build the foundation for a career that’s fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

Where you’ll be working: You’ll spend the full 10-week programme on-site, five days per week at our Swindon office. This supports immersive learning, strong team integration, and your development into a confident future early-career professional.

About you:

• Have a genuine interest in developing skills in Strategy & Business Support
• Are curious, ambitious, and proactive learners
• Are strong communicators with good attention to detail
• Enjoy solving problems and thinking creatively
• Thrive in a collaborative, high-performance environment
• Can organise and take accountability for their work
• Want to make a positive difference for our customers and communities

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.

To be eligible for this internship:

• Be a student with the right to work in the UK
• Currently be in your first year of university and available to start an Industrial Placement as part of a university sandwich-course in September 2027
• Be available to complete the internship from July through to September 2026

The extras you’ll get:

• Access to learning and professional development resources
• Opportunities to network with leaders, mentors, and fellow interns
• Paid volunteering time to support causes you care about
• Experience within a high performing Early Careers culture

Post-programme Opportunities: At the end of your internship, if you’ve demonstrated strong potential, you’ll be fast-tracked to final-stage assessment centres for relevant 2027 Industrial Placements.

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: Click Apply Now to get started. You’ll complete online tests and a short interview, and successful candidates will be invited to a final-stage assessment centre. If you have any questions, please reach out to Early.Careers@nationwide.co.uk.

What you’ll be doing: Group Customer & Communications are a driven, creative team focused on putting customers first and turning Nationwide’s mutual status into growth, advocacy and brand leadership. In a world where most banks exist to please shareholders, we’re different. We’re the UK’s first mutual, full-service bank, which means we’re able to focus entirely on the people who bank with us. Our goal is to understand our customers better than anyone else, create experiences that feel personal, and build a brand that stands out in financial services. We want to prove, through real action, that being a mutual leads to fairer outcomes, greater value, and ideas that change the game. Throughout the programme, you will:

• Work on meaningful tasks that contribute to your team’s goals
• Build baseline technical and professional skills relevant to the function you join
• Take part in structured development activities across the 10-week programme
• Grow your understanding of Nationwide’s culture, expectations, and ways of working
• Demonstrate your aptitude, performance, and potential through real tasks and shadowing
• Build a professional network