Assistant Product Manager

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to develop their career in Product Management, working in the Mortgages team. You’ll be designing and launching exciting new propositions, looking for gaps in the market where Nationwide can improve our product offering and genuinely make a difference to our mortgage members.

At Nationwide we openly put our customers at the centre of every decision we make as a business. Every role, no matter what it’s doing, is customer focused. Your role will focus on Product Management activities covering a range of topics including: analysing and understanding market trends, developing solutions to market opportunities, working closely with a range of colleagues from across the Society to make this happen by shaping change and undertaking the day-to-day running of the product.

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

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, Northampton or Bournemouth 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

As part of the Mortgage Product team, you’ll play a key role in reviewing and developing existing and new propositions. You’ll work with colleagues across a wide range of teams to identify, shape and deliver changes to our products which help us better meet member needs and commercial targets.

You’ll be bringing new mortgage products to market, designed to respond to key market trends and taking advantage of opportunities. These will be based on a strong level of insight, balancing a customer focus with the need to achieve key financial and risk targets.

You will own projects from inception to completion as a central point of contact to provide subject matter expertise on expected product design, shaping our product change agenda in consultation with key stakeholders from across the business.

You will present to stakeholders across the business and will need to successfully influence these colleagues.

About You

The minimum requirements for the role are:

• Able to demonstrate a strong working knowledge of the UK mortgage market
• A background in financial services and/or propositional development – basing your ideas on a strong level of analytical research, taking these through to proposal and delivery
• Be a strategic thinker - able to piece together complex management and market information into a coherent picture and propose the best way to resolve issues and find opportunities
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to build relationships and collaborate successfully with a wide range of stakeholders
• Strong PowerPoint skills and good knowledge of Excel & Word to be able to analyse data and produce MI and reporting
• Experience of working with complex datasets and be able to translate these into meaningful insights
  
  

Role

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.