National Performance Director, Business Banking at Nationwide, United Kingdom

National Performance Director, Business Banking at Nationwide in United Kingdom. Apply with swipeandhired.

Following Nationwide’s acquisition of Virgin Money, we’re building an ambitious, relationship-led Business Bank with the scale, capability and expertise to support businesses across the UK.
As we build and grow our Business Banking proposition, we’re looking for a National Performance Director (Exco-2) to play a pivotal role in creating the performance, capability and oversight framework that will underpin our success.
This is an opportunity to help shape a national banking business at a defining stage in its development, setting the standards, disciplines and capabilities that will enable our teams to deliver sustainable growth, strong customer outcomes and consistently high-quality lending.
Reporting to the Director of Business Relationships, with a close working relationship with the Director of Large Corporate Lending, you’ll lead the national approach to performance, workforce capability, technical competence and first-line lending oversight across Business Banking. You’ll translate our growth strategy into clear performance expectations and practical plans, creating a consistent national framework while ensuring regional, segment and portfolio priorities remain visible and appropriately supported. Crucially, this isn’t simply a performance management role. You’ll bring together commercial performance, people capability, credit quality and risk insight, helping our leaders understand what is driving performance, where opportunities are emerging and where targeted intervention is needed.

Flexible base location with travel. Proximity to London / Glasgow preferable but not essential.

What you’ll be doing
You’ll design and embed a national performance framework covering customer growth and retention, lending, deposits, fee income, portfolio quality, productivity, conduct and colleague capability.
Working across Business Relationships and relevant Large Corporate Lending activities, you will:

About you
We’re looking for an established leader with significant experience in Business, Commercial or Corporate Banking, ideally within a large-scale, relationship-led or geographically dispersed environment.
You’ll bring a strong understanding of how commercial banking businesses perform, as well as the relationship between growth, customer outcomes, colleague capability, credit quality and risk.
You’re likely to have experience of:

Most importantly, you’ll be comfortable operating in a build environment. You’ll be able to move between strategy and execution, challenge constructively, create structure where it doesn’t yet exist and bring people with you as we establish a new national model.
This is an opportunity to join at a genuinely exciting point in our Business Banking journey.
We have the ambition, scale and opportunity to build something distinctive, combining Nationwide’s customer-led ethos with the commercial banking capability and expertise brought together through Virgin Money.
As National Performance Director, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how that ambition translates into performance across the business, helping us build the capability, disciplines and standards needed to grow sustainably and deliver brilliantly for our customers.
If you’re excited by the opportunity to help build and shape the next chapter of Business Banking at Nationwide, we’d love to hear from you.

Your rewards
We continually review and evaluate our offering to ensure we have a broad range of market competitive benefits available for our colleagues. When you put a lot in, it’s only fair to expect a lot out. So, when you help us do the right thing for our customers, we want to reward you.
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 profit. We put their needs first. Always.
If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about 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.
We are purpose driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next
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