Product & Project Management Industrial Placement - Mortgages

Good things this way

If you are an ambitious go-getter who enjoys solving problems and learning new skills, our 12-month Industrial Placement provides a clear pathway into a rewarding career in banking.

With no shareholders, you’ll deliver real impact by shaping products and services for our 16 million members.

You’ll build trusted relationships across the organisation and learn from a network of high-performing colleagues, all working to deliver for customers, communities and society. 

We’ll support your development through workshops, simulations, accreditations and on-the-job learning, helping you grow with confidence. You’ll also work on a green and sustainability strategy project work with other Placement colleagues and join an individual learning pathway to continuously develop your skills.  

Get more from your placement year as you thrive within our high-performance culture, experience hands-on learning, tailored training, and a strong support network.

Where you’ll be working

Our Mortgages function brings together 3,000 colleagues, all working towards our mission to provide the best mortgage service in the UK. You’ll work across our high=performing Mortgages Product teams, developing skills in product design, insight creation, and project management. You’ll gain hands‑on experience in pricing, performance, customer research, and process improvement. 

What you’ll be doing

On the Product and Project Management, Mortgages Industrial Placement, you’ll gain the knowledge, skills and network to prepare you for a rewarding career in banking.

You’ll focus on building product knowledge and understanding performance, while contributing to product design, customer research, and process improvement across multiple projects. With rotations across the Mortgage Product team, you’ll gain exposure to areas including pricing, customer insight, product development, and process efficiency, giving you a rounded view of how we deliver impact every day.

During your rotations, you’ll build skills and knowledge across:

• Mortgage pricing, learning how we price our products to meet member needs whilst delivering the right commercial return

• Product development, helping us launch new products to meet member needs

• Data and insight; building skills in data analytics to help us understand our customers better 

• Customer management, ensuring our products meet customer needs, deliver fair outcomes and operate in line with regulations

During the year you’ll develop new analytical skills and commercial judgement, as well as giving you the opportunity to take insight and proposal papers to senior leaders and committees.

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 Bournemouth office.

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.