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Good things this way
If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems, our Data & Analytics
Industrial Placement provides an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on
experience while exploring a future career in banking.
Help turn data into insight, strengthen risk management and influence decisions
that improve outcomes for customers and colleagues.
Whether you're interested in analytics, AI, risk management or business
improvement, this placement offers an opportunity to develop 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 data and analytics support decision-making. 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 our Risk function, helping identify opportunities, generate insight
and support decisions that strengthen how Nationwide manages risk and delivers
good outcomes.
Working alongside experienced colleagues, you'll gain exposure to data
analytics, business processes, controls, AI and risk management while developing
an understanding of how insight helps improve business performance.
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 Swindon or
Glasgow offices.
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 Data & Analytics Industrial Placement
• Risk
Our Data & Analytics 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.
Throughout the placement, you'll gain hands-on experience while following a
personalised learning pathway tailored to your role. Workshops, simulations and
on-the-job learning will help you continue developing your skills and
confidence.
The placement offers an opportunity to experience how data, analytics and AI
support decision-making across a major financial services organisation. Rather
than specialising immediately in one area, you'll gain broad experience and
develop a better understanding of where your interests and strengths lie.
No two days are the same. Activities could include analysing data, identifying
trends, supporting risk assessments, reviewing controls, improving business
processes and helping colleagues make evidence-based decisions.
Working across teams, you'll help transform information into insight, supporting
improvements that create meaningful value for customers, colleagues and the
wider organisation.
Exposure to analytics, AI and risk management will help build both technical and
professional capability. Along the way, you'll develop transferable skills in
communication, stakeholder engagement, problem solving, analytical thinking and
business improvement.
There will also be opportunities to explore emerging technologies and AI-enabled
approaches while contributing to projects that improve how Nationwide manages
risk and makes decisions.
Successful completion of the placement may help shape future career choices and
could provide a route into one of our Skills Development Programmes after
university.
Who we're looking for on the Data & Analytics Industrial Placement
• Risk
We're looking for curious, motivated people who enjoy solving problems, learning
new skills and working with others. You'll share our determination to push for
better and put customers first in the decisions you make. Whatever your route,
this placement will help you gain valuable experience while exploring where a
future career in data, analytics and risk could take you.
To succeed on our Data & Analytics Industrial Placement, you'll need to show:
• An interest in data, analytics, AI and evidence-based decision making.
• Confidence solving problems and using information to identify opportunities.
• Curiosity about how organisations use insight to improve performance and
manage risk.
• The ambition to keep growing, take on new challenges and build towards your
next career step.
• A logical, methodical approach, with the ability to understand both the
detail and the bigger picture.
• The confidence to build relationships and work with colleagues across the
business.
• Drive, high performance and a commitment to learning from feedback and
setbacks.
• A determination to push for better and put customers first in the decisions
you make.
Eligibility: You must be studying towards an undergraduate degree in a Stem
Subject.
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.
QUALIFICATIONS
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
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.
What to do next
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 20
27.
Visa sponsorship information
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 with 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.
If you have any further questions, please contact us at
Early.Careers@nationwide.co.uk [Early.Careers@nationwide.co.uk]