Nationwide is at a transformative stage, planning for the future following the recent landmark acquisition of Virgin Money, while continuing to differentiate in the market through our unique position as the world’s largest building society.
As a Senior Planning Consultant, you will be working collaboratively across the business to bring together insights and strategic thinking, to help set direction for the Society and business areas, creating clear and actionable plans to be tracked and delivered.
This role is within Strategy Development in the Strategy, Performance & Sustainability Function.
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 youll spend at least two days per week, or if part time youll spend 40% of your working time, based at our 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.
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 collaborate across the business to set the Society-wide strategic direction and establish clear and actionable plans for others in the Society to deliver.
You’ll be creating and developing sub-strategies that set the direction and actions to be taken for others across a range of different contexts. This will entail the development of high-quality strategic plans through the application of recognised, professional and robust strategic analysis development tools / frameworks.
You’ll own the formation and communication of strategic plans, including key strategy documents and financial information.
Through this, you’ll be supporting Nationwide’s senior leaders in their development and thinking on strategic topics through the creation of insights, perspectives and recommendations.
You’ll establish strong, collaborative, and effective working relationships with colleagues from across the Society to bring specialist knowledge, resource and leadership to strategy development projects.
You’ll also be responsible for utilising external market, industry, strategy and sector knowledge to ensure that Nationwide strategies are informed with the latest thinking and perspectives.
About you
As a minimum requirement, we’ll need you to have:
* Advanced strategic development expertise and experience with practical experiences of using recognised development frameworks and approaches.
* Experience of working in a strategy environment, such as a consultancy practice or in-house financial services strategy team.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to advise, challenge & influence at a senior level within the business.
* Experience navigating large and complex organisations, including gaining access to key stakeholders and successfully managing relationships.
* Self-drive and commitment striving for excellence.
* Outstanding written skills including the ability to write insightful and engaging content that encompasses clear, compelling communications.
* Strong financial analytical skills with the ability to draw useful insights and recommendations.
Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.
* Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
* Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
* Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.
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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
What makes us different
Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.
As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.
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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