Data & Analytics Industrial Placement - Retail

Nationwide; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured learning

Personalised development

25 days holiday

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Wellbeing options

On-site gyms (selected locations)

Salary sacrifice benefits

Volunteer hours

Job summary

Nationwide is offering a Data & Analytics Industrial Placement for Retail, a 12-month programme blending practical experience with professional development and real workplace learning. You’ll start with induction, mentoring and structured learning while joining a collaborative project with other placement students across Nationwide.

You’ll gain exposure to analytics, reporting and data management, with hands-on activities designed to broaden your technical and business knowledge while supporting

Qualifications

• Must be studying towards an undergraduate degree.
• Interest in data analytics, reporting or emerging technologies.
• Curious, motivated and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to turn information into meaningful insight.

Responsibilities

• Join a collaborative project across Nationwide.
• Develop technical and professional skills through workshops.
• Analyze data, build dashboards and create reports.
• Contribute to real workplace projects and decision making.

Skills

Data analysis

Data interpretation

Data visualisation

Reporting

AI & emerging data tech

Data ethics

Creative problem solving

Education

Undergraduate degree in progress

Tools

Power BI

SAS

SQL

Power Apps

Power Automate

Job description

• Swindon, United Kingdom
• Northampton, United Kingdom

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, uncover opportunities and support better decisions that improve outcomes for customers and colleagues.

Whether you're interested in analytics, customer insight, reporting or emerging technologies, 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, solve business challenges and support Nationwide's long‑term success.

The Data & Analytics pathway is designed to develop future professionals who can turn information into meaningful insight. As organisations become increasingly data‑driven, there is growing demand for people who can analyse information, identify trends, solve problems and use evidence to influence decisions.

Through a series of placements, you’ll gain exposure to different teams and perspectives while building a strong understanding of how Data & Analytics supports the wider business.

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.

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 Data & Analytics Industrial Placement - Retail

Our Data & Analytics 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 technical 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 one, you’ll contribute to meaningful work while receiving the support needed to learn and grow.

Throughout the placement, you’ll gain hands‑on experience while following a personalised learning pathway tailored to your role. Mentoring, development sessions and support from experienced colleagues will help you continue building your skills and confidence.

During the placement, you’ll complete a series of experiences across Data & Analytics teams, helping you develop a broad understanding of how information is used to improve decisions, understand performance and identify opportunities across Nationwide.

Activities could include analysing data, building dashboards, creating reports and visualisations, identifying trends and working with stakeholders to answer business questions.

Working with colleagues across different teams will help you understand how data supports decision‑making throughout the organisation. You’ll gain exposure to different approaches to analysis, reporting and data management while building valuable technical and business knowledge.

Examples of technologies you may use

• Power BI
• SAS
• SQL
• Power Apps
• Power Automate

Skills you’ll develop

• Data analysis and interpretation
• Data visualisation and storytelling
• Management information and reporting
• AI and emerging data technologies
• Data ethics and governance
• Creative problem solving

The pace of work is varied, combining project work, reporting cycles, dashboard development and ad‑hoc business requests. This creates regular opportunities to learn new technologies, solve problems and broaden your experience.

Successful completion of the placement may help shape future career choices and could provide a route into our Data & Analytics Development Programme.

Who we're looking for on the Data & Analytics Industrial Placement - Retail

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:

Strong analytical thinking and an interest in using data to solve problems.

Curiosity about trends, patterns and the reasons behind business performance.

Confidence interpreting information and using evidence to support decision‑making.

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.

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.

If you have any further questions, please contact us at [e-mail]

Job Info

• Job Identification 5648
• Apply Before 11/06/2026, 11:55 PM
• Locations Nationwide House, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN38 1NW, GB Kings Park Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 6NW, GB