We’re looking for an enthusiastic self-starter to join our team; The Centre of Excellence requires a dedicated member of staff to manage the daily running of critical remediation projects. You’ll hit the ground running, working on multiple projects, influencing key stakeholders and prioritising your workload to ensure you meet tight deadlines.

At Nationwide we aim to get things right first time but when something does go wrong, we pride ourselves in putting it right for our members quickly and fairly.

The Centre of Excellence is a specialised cross community capability who rapidly assimilate knowledge and build an understanding of emerging issues and incidents in order to effectively define the strategy and approach required to remediate impacted members.

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

We’re looking for a self-starter who has prior programme management experience. You will be involved in the heartbeat of the remediation programme. Ensuring all governance targets are met and key milestones and controls in place. This will involve influencing senior stakeholders, providing insight and recommendations for project pathways. Applying continuous improvement measures to inflight initiatives, post programme / project reviews and directly into methodologies.

Owning the governance timeline and ensuring governance packs are of the highest quality to ensure clear audit trails are in place. You will be accountable for the project plans, risks and action logs.

Finally, you will create, maintain, use and adopt methodologies for delivery including traditional methods, agile methods, ACF, set-up-to-succeed.

About you

As a minimum requirement, you will have:

• Prior PMO experience in a financial services institution.
• Proven ability to work on different projects across multiple communities, multi-tasking and prioritising workload
• Clearly able to show proven experience of project management and/or experience of delivering remediation or change programmes
• Good business acumen and influencing skills and be able to articulate your ideas well both verbally and in writing, to key stakeholders
• Understanding of change control standards and guardrails
• Experience in demand, resource, financial and supplier management

We’re also interested in who you are as a person. Why? Because our membership is made up of so many different kinds of people, so we want our employees to be just as diverse. We’d love to hear about:

• Your values, and what makes you who you are
• How you’d make a difference to our members in this role

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

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
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata