Customer Relationships Manager

Location

Eastbourne / East Sussex

Salary

25750

Contract

Temporary (Full Time - 12 months)

Reference

1299

Closing Date

03 December 2025

Customer Relationships Manageris an exciting, multi-skilled and customer focused role, where you'll focus on developing more rewarding relationships by supporting our customers to access our products and services through a variety of ways. Having a flexible approach, helping our customers face-to-face in branch and supporting them remotely via the phone or by video call means you will be maximising your existing knowledge, whilst learning new skills.

This is a 12 month secondment / fixed term contract 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 job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at Eastbourne Branch. 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.

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.

Supporting our customers is at the heart of this role whether it's via phone, video call or face to face. By using our range of products, services and propositions, you'll help to identify their needs and support them in accessing our product range. You'll be able to answer a wide range of customer enquiries, including complex topics and refer customers to specialist advisers when you identify a need.

You'll be an SME within your branch location, to support colleagues with quality customer conversations. You will be available to support our vulnerable customers, using this specialist knowledge to be there for them when they need extra help.

Supporting our customers through all channels, you will develop skills to deliver the right outcomes for our customers. You will need a willingness to learn as you develop your understanding and skills across our non-advised product range. Being a good communicator is crucial, as you build a rapport with each customer to gain a better understanding of the different ways we can help them. By asking the right questions you will be able to discover the options open to them and explain our products and services in a way they understand. This is a fast paced and challenging role that we're sure you will find rewarding.

You will have previous experience in identifying and meeting the needs of customers using your excellent knowledge of Nationwide's products which are predominantly Credit Cards, Personal Loans, General Insurance and Current Accounts.

This role is jam-packed full of opportunities to use your existing knowledge and experience as well as benefiting from a comprehensive training and support package so you can grow and develop.

You'll need to have:

• Relevant experience in addressing the needs of customers through skilful, principle-based sales processes and addressing holistic customer needs
• Customer service skills in face to face, telephony or digital channels
• Experience in a Financial Services or a Retail customer facing role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to explain decisions confidently and clearly over the telephone and in writing
• Computer skills and be comfortable using digital tools, such as mobile devices, online calculators, etc and multiple 'Office'/database applications for member service needs
• Be motivated and organised with good time management skills and attention to detail in your work
• Empathetic, compassionate and able to build good relationships with customers and internal and external stakeholders, such as other business areas within the Society and local groups or individuals within the community

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.

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 25 days holiday
• From January 2026, all Nationwide colleagues will benefit from 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

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.

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 Hayley Devi and the main recruitment contact is Paul Metcalfe.