Business Operations & Improvement Industrial Placement - Retail

Nationwide; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Annual bonus potential

Private medical insurance

Wellbeing access

On-site gym access

Volunteer hours allowance

Job summary

Nationwide is offering a 12-month Business Operations & Improvement Industrial Placement - Retail in Swindon or Northampton, with hybrid working across the UK. You’ll gain hands-on experience, participate in a collaborative project and benefit from structured learning designed to develop practical skills for a future in banking.

Throughout the placement, development workshops and real workplace learning support your growth, helping you apply learning and understand how data and analytics inform

Qualifications

• Induction and structured learning to settle in and understand the role.
• Collaborative project with other Industrial Placement students.
• Development workshops to build project and professional skills.

Responsibilities

• Support improvement initiatives across Retail operations.
• Learn how data, technology and collaboration drive decision-making.
• Contribute to practical projects to help Nationwide meet goals.

Job description

Business Operations & Improvement Industrial Placement - Retail

• Swindon, United Kingdom
• Northampton, United Kingdom

Good things this way

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

Help improve the way Nationwide operates by solving business challenges, supporting better decisions and contributing to improvements that benefit customers and colleagues.

Whether you're interested in business operations, performance insight, process improvement or stakeholder management, this placement offers the 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 Retail, Customer Operations and Product function, where teams work together to improve experiences, deliver change, solve business challenges and support Nationwide's long-term success.

The Business Operations & Improvement pathway is designed for people who enjoy solving problems, improving ways of working and helping organisations achieve their goals. Through a range of placements, you'll develop skills in business planning, performance insight, process improvement and stakeholder management while learning how data, technology and collaboration can be used to drive effective business delivery.

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 Northampton 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.

Uncompromisingly Customer, whatever our role

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 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 you'll be doing on the Business Operations & Improvement Industrial Placement - Retail

Our Business Operations & Improvement Industrial Placement is a 12-month programme designed to combine practical experience, professional development and real workplace learning.

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 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.

This isn't a placement spent watching from the sidelines. From day