Our Credit Cards teamwork in a fast-paced, exciting environment where no two days are the same. There’s a buzz in the department, and it’s the sound of us delightfully surprising our customers! We provide a fantastic all-round experience for new and existing customers, supporting them with a digital-first attitude and generally impressing them with our credit card support and expertise. Making our customers happy involves us building strong relationships, solving problems and having great conversations through our live chat, telephony, and social platforms.
Our opening hours are from 8am - 6pm, Monday to Friday, and Saturday 9am - 3pm. Shifts fall within these opening times following assigned shift patterns, such as 8am - 3:30pm or 10:30am - 6pm. You would also be expected to work the occasional Saturday shift for which you would be given a day off during the week.
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 be located at our nearest regional office or hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration and in some locations you’ll be expected to spend at least two days a week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, in the office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.
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.
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 be speaking with our customer through various platforms such as Live Chat and over the Phone, supporting them with their queries and questions. You’ll also be actioning changes and requests and providing expert support and information around our Credit Card products and accounts.
Additionally, you’ll work towards, and achieve, excellent customer outcomes managing internal admin procedures whilst having a digital-first attitude so our customers can leave a conversation with the capacity to support themselves moving forward.
You’ll be expected to go the extra mile for our vulnerable customers, providing extra support and showcasing interactions that you wouldn’t get anywhere else.
About you
You will have:
Strong experience delivering exceptional customer service in either a digital or face-to-face environment, with a focus on creating a positive, lasting impression
Telephony experience with the ability to effectively assist customers in a remote capacity
Speed, accuracy, and the confidence to provide expert service
An open mind to learn and adapt to processes within our area
Basic technological expertise in handling multiple applications at once
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
Access to 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.
Once we’ve received your application successfully, we will invite you to the first stage; our online assessments!
Within a few hours you’ll receive a link to your unique candidate hub – here we’ll ask you to complete some online assessments within 48 hours of applying; these include a situational judgement test, checking and numerical assessments – all focussed around what’s important to us in a member facing role at Nationwide.
In your candidate hub you’ll also be able to get hints and tips and watch videos from our colleagues giving you a really good idea of what it’s like to work here at Nationwide.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.