Marketing Project Coordinator

Nationwide - UK; Swindon, Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial mutual is seeking a Marketing Project Coordinator to join their Creative Centre of Excellence in Swindon. In this role, you will drive transformation projects, manage key workstreams, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders using your direct marketing expertise and project management skills. The position supports hybrid working options and offers a collaborative team environment committed to customer-first behaviours.

Benefits

Personal pension with generous employer contributions

Life assurance

Paid volunteering days

Health and wellness options

Performance related bonus

Training and career progression

25 days holiday

Qualifications

• Experience in direct marketing channel communications.
• Proven experience with Adobe tools.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and represent the creative team in change projects.
• Optimize processes and create new process documents.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Project Management

Direct Marketing

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Attention to Detail

Tools

Adobe Workfront

Adobe Experience Manager

Job description

This role will be within our Creative Centre of Excellence team, that sits within our broader Customer Marketing team. There are a number of squads focused on delivering marketing activity for specific objectives, and these squads are supported by our Creative Centre of Excellence team. The purpose of our team is to support the creative teams within the squads with achieving personalised communications that are impactful, compelling, and meaningful to our customers to ensure we are driving value in everything we do.

As a Marketing Project Coordinator in the Creative Centre of Excellence team, you will play a key role in delivering our Transformation roadmap. You will act as key workstream lead within wider change projects – being the key representative for the creative team, leading and project managing this through to implementation. You will also support with creating, optimising and streamlining processes impacted by the Transformation project. You will need to build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, as well as be an excellent collaborator. If you are experienced in direct marketing, have previously used tools such as Adobe Workfront and Adobe Experience Manager, and who has strong project management skills, then we want to hear from you.

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 either our Bournemouth or 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.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be working in a small, proactive team that has accountability for leading change projects that support our 5-year vision. You will achieve this through the following ways:

• You will be part of wider change projects, taking the lead and representing the creative team. This will include mapping requirements, shaping the approach and implementing to squads through thorough documentation and training. You will need to be able to work as a team, staying close to the project plan to ensure successful delivery, influencing as required and engaging key colleagues.
• You will be an advocate for our brand, supporting the squads with relevant tools, templates, frameworks, and guidance to ensure best in class creative.
• You will support with optimising ways of working and creating new process documents to ensure our risk and controls remain in a strong position whilst delivering change across the team and training out changes to the squads.
• You will have experience of below the line channels like; direct mail, email, digital prompts in our internet bank and mobile app.
• You will be familiar with Adobe Workfront, Adobe Experience Manager and if possible other tools integrated in a Content Supply Chain.
• You will be part of our Marketing community, but you’ll work with other teams too, including our Brand team, Planning Centre of Excellence and Squads.

About you

We’re looking for somebody who has/is;

• Experience of direct marketing channel communications, best practice, and their place within the marketing mix.
• Project management experience.
• Proven experience with Adobe Workfront and Adobe Experience Manager.
• A good understanding of how a Content Supply Chain works.
• A good communicator and influencer, confident at both writing and presenting, experience in creating engaging communications that capture an audience.
• Demonstrable experience of being able to train out key messages to teams.
• Experience of managing and influencing internal stakeholders, agencies and third parties.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to manage and own multiple competing priorities and deliverables. Able to work within a well governed environment and optimise processes and controls.
• Strong attention to detail and time management skills.
• Proactive and empowered to make decisions within a framework. Resilient in your approach, able to overcome setbacks and have a solution focused mindset.
• Experience in the Financial Sector is desirable.
• A self-starter and highly motivated. Able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.

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.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

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. 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.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role the job title on our internal systems will be Marketing & Corporate Affairs Consultant.

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