Business Operations & Improvement Industrial Placement

Good things this way  

If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems, our Product & Change Industrial Placement provides an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience while exploring a future career in banking. 

Help improve products, services and customer experiences while gaining valuable experience of how change is delivered across a large and complex organisation. 

Whether you're interested in project management, business analysis, product development or customer insight, this placement offers an opportunity to build practical skills while contributing to meaningful business outcomes. 

The experience is designed to help you build confidence, apply your learning and gain valuable insight into how products, services and customer experiences evolve. Along the way, you'll broaden your network, work with experienced professionals and discover where your interests might take you after university. 

Looking for a rewarding career in banking? Good things this way.

Where you’ll be working 

You'll join teams within our Mortgages function, helping support the products, services and change initiatives that shape customer experiences across Nationwide. 

Working alongside experienced professionals, you'll gain exposure to product development, project delivery, customer insight, governance and change management while building a broad understanding of how products and services evolve to meet changing customer needs. 

Location 

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 London office.

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

What you'll be doing on the Product & Change Industrial Placement - Mortgages 

Our Product & Change Industrial Placement is a 12-month programme designed to combine practical experience, professional development and real workplace learning. This isn't a placement spent watching from the sidelines. From day one, you'll contribute to meaningful work while receiving the support needed to learn and grow. 

Your placement begins with induction, development support and structured learning designed to help you settle in, build confidence and understand the role you'll be performing.  Alongside this, you'll join a 10-month collaborative project with other Industrial Placement students from across Nationwide. Development workshops run throughout the placement, helping build project and professional skills, grow confidence and prepare you for your next career step.