Product, Change & Delivery Industrial Placement - Retail

If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems, our Product, Change & Delivery Industrial Placement provides an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience while exploring a future career in banking. Help improve products, services and customer experiences while gaining valuable experience of how change is delivered across a large and complex organisation. The pathway is designed for future professionals who want to understand business and customer needs, design effective solutions and help turn ideas into reality. Whether you're interested in product development, business analysis, project delivery or process improvement, 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 customer and intermediary experiences are delivered. 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. 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. What you'll be doing on our Product, Change & Delivery Industrial Placement, Retail Our Product, Change & Delivery Industrial Placement is a 12-month programme designed to combine practical experience, professional development and real workplace learning. 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. 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 10-month collaborative project with other Industrial Placement students from across Nationwide. Throughout the placement, you'll gain hands-on experience while following a personalised learning pathway tailored to your role. Workshops, simulations and on-the-job learning will help you continue developing your skills and confidence. During the placement, you'll complete a series of experiences across Product, Transformation, Change, Delivery and Process Improvement teams. These placements will help you build a well-rounded understanding of how ideas move from concept to implementation while developing the skills, knowledge and professional network needed for a successful career in Product, Change & Delivery. No two days are the same. Activities could include attending team meetings, collaborating with stakeholders, contributing to projects and change initiatives, reviewing customer and business insights, supporting process improvement activity and helping to plan or track delivery of work. You'll gain exposure to a variety of tools and platforms used to support collaboration, project delivery, change management and business improvement. The specific technologies will vary depending on the team you're working with, helping you build broad experience across different environments. Along the way, you'll develop practical skills in: Product thinking and management Business analysis and requirements gathering Project and programme delivery Change management Process improvement Customer journey mapping Stakeholder management Communication and relationship building Creative problem solving and critical thinking Successful completion of the placement may help shape future career choices and could provide a route into one of our Skills Development Programmes after university. Who we're looking for on our Product, Change & Delivery Industrial Placement, Retail We're looking for curious, motivated people who enjoy working with others, solving problems and learning new skills. 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 Product, Change & Delivery could take you. To succeed on our Product, Change & Delivery Industrial Placement, you'll need to show: An interest in understanding business challenges and identifying opportunities for improvement. Curiosity about how products, services and organisations are designed, improved and delivered. The ability to think critically and analyse information to support decision-making. Confidence building relationships and working with different people. Curiosity about how businesses understand and respond to customer needs. The ambition to keep growing, take o