Senior Strategy Consultant - Climate Disclosures in Swindon

This is a great opportunity to join the Sustainability team within Strategy, Performance and Sustainability. We’re looking for a Senior Strategy Consultant to join our team to develop and lead production of our climate disclosures. We are a small team with a wide ranging and varied remit, undertaking important and influential work to very high standards and tight deadlines. You’ll be responsible for helping to develop Nationwide’s climate disclosures, supporting our net-zero ambitions, and communicating our progress clearly to senior internal and external stakeholders.

Climate change, and our response to it, is becoming increasingly important to our members, colleagues, investors, and regulators, and developing and helping to influence our response to it is a crucial part of Nationwide’s strategic driver beacon for mutual good. We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best. The working hours (per week) for this role can be between 28 and 35 hours. 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 Swindon 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.

Responsibilities

In this exciting role, you’ll play a key part in shaping and delivering Nationwide’s annual climate-related financial disclosures, as well as supporting the evolution of our climate targets and net-zero transition plan. Working closely with colleagues across the business, you’ll gather insights, understand progress, and translate complex information into clear, balanced and impactful reporting for members and external stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for leading the production of climate-related disclosures, bringing together climate risk, financed emissions, scenario analysis, governance and data insights into evidence-based communications.

Keeping abreast of regulatory developments, disclosure requirements and industry trends, you’ll help ensure our approach remains relevant, robust and aligned with emerging expectations. You’ll also monitor competitor activity to identify opportunities for continuous improvement. As we continue our journey towards a net-zero economy, you’ll contribute to the development of Nationwide’s transition plan and climate ambitions, helping to define how we respond to changing environmental challenges. You’ll build strong relationships across the organisation, represent Nationwide in industry forums and working groups, and support engagement with external stakeholders to drive positive environmental outcomes and contribute to a greener society.

About you

We’re interested in people who enjoy looking ahead, thinking strategically and seeing the bigger picture. As a minimum, we are looking for:

• Disclosure Development - able to use your outstanding narrative-writing skills to produce high quality climate-related disclosures, aligned with TCFD recommendations, UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, and the wider external landscape supporting the transition to a lower-carbon UK economy.
• Report Writing & Documentation - experienced in writing reports, papers, or disclosures.
• Stakeholder Influence & Communication - an excellent communicator, with the ability to advise, challenge and influence at a senior level within Nationwide.
• Climate Change Expertise - experience in a climate-focused role with good understanding of climate change, and how it affects financial institutions such as Nationwide.
• Ownership & Delivery - proactive, willing to take ownership of yours and others’ work, and to drive it forward, at pace, to meet your goals.
• Problem Solving & Adaptability - comfortable in dealing with ambiguity and a self-starter, with the ability to tackle complex issues and undertake analysis on a broad range of topics.
• Presentation & Engagement - adept at presenting your thoughts to senior leaders and wider audiences, and engaging and responding to queries and challenges.
• Technical Communication Skills - proficient in the use of Excel and PowerPoint and able to create high-quality materials to communicate complex ideas in a clear and engaging manner.
• Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing - a team player, with the ability to translate complex matters and share knowledge of climate change, and Nationwide's response to it, with colleagues across the organisation.

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.

Qualifications

The extras you’ll get There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata.
• 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.

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.

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