Project Lead at Nationwide, United Kingdom

Project Lead at Nationwide in United Kingdom. Contract. Est. up to $60k. Apply with swipeandhired.

We are looking for a proactive, high-performing, driven Project Manager to join our Change and Delivery team within Workplace, Property and Colleague Enablement. This role will use appropriate frameworks, tools and techniques to shape, plan and lead the end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of change initiatives, adapting approach to manage complexity and drive safe delivery at pace.

The role will work with stakeholders and the supply chain to agree scope, outcomes, plans, dependencies and resourcing needs, ensuring the right capacity and capability are in place to deliver towards the overall change team Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and manage expectations throughout. The role will act as a facilitator and leader who helps and supports delivery teams to perform at their best, aligned to agreed change practices, processes and governance.

Typically, you’ll be managing the full lifecycle from discovery and planning through to implementation, close-down, and benefits realisation. Furthermore, you will ensure that delivery remains aligned with agreed objectives, timelines, and business outcomes.

Additionally, you will own delivery plans, governance, reporting, budgets, and financial controls, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and provide value for money. Alongside this, you will proactively manage risks and issues, putting mitigations in place and escalating concerns where necessary to maintain successful delivery.

This role also includes managing suppliers and third-party partners, defining requirements, monitoring performance against agreed milestones and SLAs, and ensuring effective collaboration with internal stakeholders. Another key aspect is to contribute to strategic planning activities, including change roadmaps, prioritisation, and quarterly planning cycles.

Working closely with Delivery Support and wider teams, the successful candidate will help optimise resources, remove blockers, and promote a culture of accountability and high performance. They will also drive continuous improvement by applying lessons learned and enhancing delivery standards, methodologies, and ways of working

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

This is a 12-month secondment opportunity .

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 role, you'll be based at your nearest regional office or hub. We value time spent together to connect with colleagues for collaboration so there will be a regular requirement to attend our Swindon site approximately once per quarter . If you are based at an office location, you'll be expected to meet our hybrid working requirement of at least two days a week, or 40% of your working time if part-time, in the office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

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 you’re 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 you’ll be doing

This role will involve leading the end-to-end delivery of projects, overseeing governance, reporting, project design, and change control to ensure agreed objectives and business outcomes are achieved.

You will be managing project budgets, financial forecasts, and funding approvals, while tracking benefits and ensuring value is delivered throughout the project lifecycle.

The role will also take ownership of risk management, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, mitigated, and escalated appropriately, while maintaining compliance with organisational standards, policies, and supplier agreements.

Additionally, you’ll be working closely with internal and external stakeholders, and will build strong relationships, contribute to strategic planning and roadmaps, remove delivery barriers, and promote a positive, values-driven culture across all project activities.

About you

For this role, we are looking for:

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:

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:

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.

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