Nationwide is establishing a data-driven culture across the Society that will support our business modernisation and transformation goals. We are looking for an enthusiastic data professional who is passionate about how improved data quality can help us meet our strategic goals and can embed good data management practices across Retail Products. As a Senior Data Management Consultant, you’ll support the Data Steward for Retail Products to champion the Society’s data culture, strengthen our data governance maturity and ensure the data we use conforms to the Society’s data governance framework.

Retail Products look after the banking and savings of 16 million members and business customers by offering competitive propositions that meet core needs, reward loyalty, broaden & deepen relationships and ensure the long-term sustainability of the Society. We’re looking to add to our talented and experienced team that support the data and insight needs that underpin much of the decision-making across our product ranges.

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.

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, London, Bournemouth or Northampton 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’ll support in continually assessing our adherence to the Society’s Data Governance Framework, making recommendations for improvements in our data controls and implementing these in a sustainable way and in line with the ways of working and tooling approach defined centrally.

We’ll need you to use your experience with data management controls, such as data lineage mapping, metadata management and data quality outputs (such as dashboards and scorecards) to ensure the data we use across Retail Products and reports is well understood and optimised for its purpose.

You’ll use your engagement and collaboration skills to work alongside subject matter experts in Retail Products to identify critical data and document this in a central metadata repository, ensuring the Society’s most important data is well managed, controlled and clearly understood.

About you

You will be a data governance professional who can speak to data and business people alike to help them understand what data governance and data quality means for them and how it can add value for the Society and our Members.

As a minimum you’ll need to have:

• Proven hands-on experience implementing data controls in a large organisation – e.g. development and rollout of data dictionaries, lineage documentation, data quality scorecards, including reporting and resolving data quality issues.
• Data Quality profiling experience.
• Experience of profiling data to help inform business rules, establishing a basis for what good data looks like for the Society.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of data governance frameworks and industry best practice.
• Experience of Microsoft Excel and Power BI or similar.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, ensuring a positive data culture is promoted and controls become a business-as-usual activity.
• Experience of working in a team of data professionals.
• Some coding experience for example: - SAS, SQL, VBA or experience using analytical tools such as Teradata or Databricks.

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.

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