Data & Analytics Industrial Placement – Retail

Overview

In this 12-month Data & Analytics placement, you gain hands-on experience shaping how data informs decisions across Nationwide’s Retail, Customer Operations and Product function. You’ll work on real projects, learn through structured development and collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn data into insight. Expect exposure to analytics, reporting and dashboards while building practical skills for a future in data-driven banking. This role offers a clear path to advanced analytics careers within the org, with mentoring and a focus on customer outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• annual bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Wellhub access and on-site gyms
• Competitive pension
• Salary sacrifice benefits

Responsibilities

• Contribute to meaningful analytics work from day one
• Rotate across Data & Analytics teams to gain diverse perspectives
• Analyse data, build dashboards, create reports and visualisations
• Identify trends and answer business questions with stakeholders
• Develop understanding of data management, reporting and governance
• Engage with colleagues to learn how data supports decision-making
• Learn and apply multiple analysis approaches and new technologies

Key requirements

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving
• Curiosity about trends and drivers of business performance
• Ability to interpret information and support decisions with evidence
• Ambition to learn, grow and take on new challenges
• Logical, methodical approach with attention to detail and the bigger picture
• Confidence to build relationships across the business
• Drive, high performance and openness to feedback
• Eligibility: studying towards an undergraduate degree

• Curiosity
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Power BI
• SAS
• SQL

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