Business Intelligence Manager Analytics

We are looking for an experienced Business Intelligence Manager to help shape and scale our Service Journey Orchestration capability using customer events data and decisioning to deliver timely relevant communications and experiences across channels. You will provide functional leadership and lead a portfolio of strategically important cross-functional initiatives ensuring activities are set up for successful delivery and representing the capability with senior stakeholders across Nationwide.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct line management responsibility. You will provide leadership across complex activities and multidisciplinary teams setting direction creating alignment and driving delivery through influence credibility and constructive challenge. You will use data insight and analytical evidence to shape priorities identify orchestration opportunities and support informed decision-making across the capability.

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 Swindon London or Glasgow office. If youre based at our Glasgow office this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. 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 tohybrid working here.

Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role if youre an internal applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.

If youre a colleague on long-term absence (for example on parental leave) or a temporary worker please use your personal email address to submit an application.

What youll be doing

Service Journey Orchestration:

You will lead the function-wide delivery plan for the Service Journey Orchestration capability ensuring a clear and coordinated approach across a portfolio of interconnected activities. This will involve establishing robust delivery plans governance frameworks ownership structures and decision-making processes while proactively managing dependencies risks competing priorities and areas of ambiguity to ensure successful outcomes.

Working across multiple concurrent initiatives you will drive activity from inception through to delivery using continuous learning feedback and analytical insight to improve outcomes and maximise value. You will lead proofs of concept to assess feasibility value risk scalability and routes to production enabling informed decisions about future investment and implementation. Using data and evidence-based insight you will identify high-value orchestration opportunities influence stakeholders and help shape strategic priorities across the capability.

You will work closely with governance risk security privacy and architecture teams to ensure solutions meet all required standards and controls. You will also challenge existing ways of working identifying opportunities for improvement and leading initiatives through to implementation and measurable value realisation.

What Success Looks Like:

Success in this role will be demonstrated through the development of a clear prioritised and achievable roadmap for the Service Journey Orchestration capability that effectively balances business-as-usual activity with strategic change. Teams and stakeholders will have a strong understanding of the services the capability provides how to engage with it and how priorities and decisions are established.

You will ensure complex initiatives progress at pace with clear ownership effective stakeholder alignment and the early resolution of risks and dependencies. Proofs of concept will generate robust evidence to support decision-making with successful ideas progressing through a controlled route into production and delivering measurable business value.

About you

You are an experienced leader who delivers through influence rather than formal authority. You create clarity from ambiguity bring multidisciplinary teams together around shared outcomes and confidently challenge colleagues at all levels. You combine strategic thinking with a willingness to work hands-on where it adds value moving comfortably between discovery planning experimentation and delivery.

Minimum skills and experience:

Experience leading complex data-led portfolios or initiatives across customer journeys communications decisioning orchestration or a comparable environment
A strong track record of coordinating multidisciplinary teams and delivering outcomes through influence rather than direct authority
Experience establishing proportionate governance delivery disciplines and shared ways of working
Strong analytical judgement including using incomplete or evolving evidence to evaluate opportunities and make sound recommendations
The ability to communicate technical or analytical concepts clearly to senior non-technical stakeholders
Demonstrated ownership of initiatives from discovery and experimentation through to implementation and value realisation

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 were 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 dont 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 youll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide including:

25 days holiday pro rata
Private medical insurance
A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
Access to an annual performance-related bonus
Training and development to help you progress your career
A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
Wellhub access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

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What to do next

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The hiring manager for this role is Wullie Grubb and the main recruitment contact is Sameena Rehman.