Senior Product Analyst - Business Lending Products

At Nationwide, we’re making banking fairer, more rewarding and for the good of society. Within Business Banking, the Business Lending Products team sits at the heart of the lending experience, supporting UK businesses to grow and flourish by delivering compelling lending propositions.

As a Senior Product Analyst within the Business Lending Products team, you will play a key role in managing, monitoring and reporting the business lending product set in line with our product governance and regulatory reporting requirements. Working in a fast-paced environment you will support customers to grow by delivering rewarding lending propositions that meet the evolving needs of UK businesses.

With a curious mindset, you will proactively apply strong analytical skills to interrogate data and processes, generating insights that deepen understanding of customer behaviour and product performance. This will inform clear actions to support, enhance and develop our products and propositions.

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

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 our Glasgow office. If you’re based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. 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. 

Virgin Money is now part of Nationwide

Nationwide acquired Virgin Money in October 2024. Virgin Money continues to serve customers on the high street, and there will be a phased and considered integration over the coming years.

You’ll be employed by Nationwide from day one, delivering real impact and benefitting from a highly competitive range of benefits. We’re a workplace where you’re rewarded, recognised and celebrated.

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

The Business Lending Products team, is a dynamic, innovative, and growing function responsible for developing, implementing, managing, monitoring, and reporting on the Business Lending product suite. 

Operating across the end-to-end product lifecycle, the team plays a critical role in ensuring products remain fit for purpose for customers and aligned to regulatory standards. We set high standards, ensuring every decision starts and finishes with the customer in mind, challenging the status quo and delivering at pace and with quality.

We are on an exciting journey to build our Business Banking proposition to better serve UK businesses. With the customer at the heart of everything we do, you will be part of a committed team focused on managing Business Lending products that support businesses to start, grow, and flourish. 

About you

As a minimum you’ll have: 

• Experience of working with financial products
• The ability to use data and analytical skills to drive insight, recommendations and actions
• Experience in balancing multiple objectives and priorities
• Excellent communication skills and able to effectively present insight
• A good understanding of policy or regulations within financial services setting

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:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata

• Private medical insurance

• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

• Access to an annual performance-related bonus

• Training and development to help you progress your career

• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

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.

The hiring manager for this role is Matthew Cornes, and the main recruitment contact is Amy Bright.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Senior Product Analyst.