Senior Consultant - Portfolio Management & Operations (Early Career Specialist) - 12 month FTC

Nationwide Building Society; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization in the UK as a Talent Manager, supporting diverse early career talent in technology and change. You'll manage stakeholder communications, refine talent processes, and promote an inclusive environment. This role offers hybrid working and a chance to make a meaningful impact in the community.

Benefits

Personal Pension

Paid Volunteering

Life Assurance

Health and Wellness Options

Performance Related Bonus

Training Opportunities

25 Days Holiday

Qualifications

• Experience in talent programmes or technical coaching.
• Background in change, technology, or IT design.

Responsibilities

• Manage communications to stakeholders regarding programmes.
• Support talent processes including attraction and onboarding.
• Provide coaching and feedback to direct reports.

Skills

Communication

Relationship Building

Coaching

Continuous Improvement

Diversity and Inclusion

Job description

Our Chief Operating Office Early Careers team play a critical role in both our Early Career strategy and STEM/Change outreach strategy. We provide a sustainable talent pipeline for our growing IT and change teams. You will be helping attract, develop and flow talent across one of the largest functions in Nationwide.

You can find out more about our Technology and Change Development Programmes below:

Early Careers in Banking | Nationwide Jobs (nationwide-jobs.co.uk)

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

The working hours (per week) for this role can be between 28 and 35 hours.

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 Swindon or London 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.

There will be the expectation to travel to other sites to deliver training outside of the core offices of Swindon and London.

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 will be supporting all types of talent (career changers, graduates, apprentices and interns), from those who could be starting their career through to those who are making a career change.

You’ll take responsibility for the day-to-day pastoral care of talent, along with the longer-term shaping of the programme. You’ll be a strong team player and comfortable with colleagues across all levels of seniority.

Day-to-day you will:

• Manage the communications to internal and external stakeholders of our programmes and partnerships
• Create and maintain change and technology related development materials to deliver agreed outcomes
• Support and refine talent processes, including attraction, onboarding, recruitment, development, business readiness and deployment
• Effective coaching and feedback to direct reports to ensure achievement of agreed outcomes
• Advise individuals on career paths and encourage development of skills and capabilities
• Drive continuous improvement across the scheme, including managing some of our partners and suppliers

About you

• We need someone with a talent management/skills development background who can build and maintain strong relationships with early career direct reports, their line managers and with senior colleagues across the Society
• A background in change, technology, IT design and delivery of training or teaching, testing learning platforms and working with third parties

Additionally, you’ll need:

• A passion for encouraging a diverse and inclusive mix of people to kick start a career in technology and change – ranging from school students, apprentices, interns, industrial placements, graduates, and career changers
• Understanding of early careers offerings, outreach activities and recruitment within the external market
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written; you’ll be documenting and delivering training material to a range of stakeholders; therefore you’ll also need the ability to influence at all levels
• Experience of talent programmes and/or technical coaching background
• Experience of promoting and delivering development events
• Experience of the pastoral care of emerging talent such as a coach or line manager

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.

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