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Were looking for a Marketing & Corporate Affairs Manager to join our Marketing & Corporate Affairs team on a permanent this role youll lead the planning development and delivery of a wide range of marketing communications and engagement activities that help strengthen our brand build trust enhance our reputation and engage key audiences both internally and externally. Youll work across a variety of projects including marketing campaigns communication initiatives events stakeholder engagement activity and key business announcements ensuring the right messages reach the right audiences through the most effective channels.

You will be responsible for shaping and delivering high-quality marketing and communication outputs using audience insights and data to inform decisions drive engagement and achieve business objectives. Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation and external partners youll create compelling content and campaigns while ensuring all activity aligns with brand governance compliance and accessibility standards. Youll also evaluate performance identify opportunities for improvement and help deliver innovative approaches that enhance audience engagement and business outcomes.

As a key member of the team youll collaborate with senior leaders business stakeholders and specialist partners to deliver impactful initiatives manage competing priorities and support the Societys response to emerging risks issues and opportunities. You will play an important role in protecting and enhancing Nationwides brand and reputation while helping the business adapt to changing customer expectations communication channels and market trends.

To be successful youll bring experience in marketing communications public affairs internal communications event management or a related field along with strong stakeholder management planning and communication skills. Youll be comfortable translating insight into action managing multiple projects simultaneously and working within a regulated environment to deliver high-quality outcomes for members colleagues and wider stakeholders.

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

The working hours (per week) for this role can be between 28 and 35 hours.

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 either our Swindon or 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 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. You can also find out more about our approach tohybrid working here.

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

As a Marketing & Corporate Affairs Manager youll play a key role in shaping and delivering marketing communications and engagement activity that helps strengthen Nationwides brand reputation and relationships with key audiences. Working across a broad range of initiatives youll be responsible for developing and delivering integrated marketing and communication plans that support business objectives drive engagement and ensure consistent impactful messaging across multiple channels.

Youll work closely with stakeholders from across the Society including senior leaders business teams and external partners to plan and deliver campaigns communications events and engagement activity. From initial concept and planning through to execution and evaluation youll help ensure activity is delivered effectively on time and in line with business priorities.

A key focus of the role will be creating compelling and audience-focused communications that inform engage and influence colleagues members and external stakeholders. Youll be responsible for developing high-quality content managing communication channels and ensuring all activity aligns with brand standards governance requirements and regulatory expectations.

Youll use insight performance data and audience feedback to measure the effectiveness of campaigns and communication activity identifying opportunities to optimise performance and enhance engagement. Working collaboratively across Marketing Digital Risk Legal and business teams youll help ensure communications are customer-focused compliant and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Youll also play an important role in supporting the continuous improvement of marketing and communication practices identifying opportunities to enhance processes strengthen stakeholder engagement and improve the effectiveness of delivery. Through strong relationship management and a proactive approach youll help influence decision-making manage competing priorities and support the successful delivery of strategic initiatives.

As a trusted marketing and communications professional youll bring excellent stakeholder management planning and communication skills along with the ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. Through your work youll help enhance Nationwides reputation strengthen audience engagement and support the Societys purpose of delivering good outcomes for members.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Proven experience leading CRM customer engagement or customer value management programmes at scale.
• Strong understanding of customer data segmentation and personalisation with evidence of using insight to improve customer engagement and commercial outcomes.
• Experience developing and delivering multi-channel customer communications programmes in a regulated environment.
• Demonstrable ability to influence stakeholders and coordinate delivery across multiple teams functions and external partners.
• Track record of using performance measurement testing and optimisation to improve customer engagement and campaign effectiveness.

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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As a mutual were owned by our members - those customers who bank save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We dont 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 youre inspired by fairer finances passionate about making a meaningful impact and truly care about our customers youre 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. Youll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

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The hiring manager for this role is Robert Jefferson and the main recruitment contact is Sameena Rehman.