Customer Relationships Manager - York

Nationwide Building Society; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial mutual in York is seeking a Customer Relationships Manager for a 12-month secondment. In this customer-focused role, you will support clients across various channels, identifying needs and guiding them through our product offerings. Ideal candidates will possess excellent communication skills and experience in customer service within financial services. This full-time position offers extensive training and numerous employee benefits, including private medical insurance and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Performance-related bonus

Career training and development

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in addressing customer needs through sales processes.
• Experience in a Financial Services or Retail customer-facing role.
• Excellent ability to explain decisions confidently over the phone and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Support customers via phone, video call, or in person.
• Identify customer needs and help them access products.
• Develop rapport with customers to explain services clearly.

Skills

Customer service skills

Communication skills

Sales processes

Time management skills

Empathy and compassion

Tools

Office applications

Digital tools

Job description

Customer Relationships Manager (CRM)is 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 opportunity working full time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Saturday and it is based at our York Branch.

If this role is advertised as part time the salary will be pro rata.

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

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 referring customers to specialist advisers when you identify a need.

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

Assisting our customers through all channels, you will develop skills to deliver the right outcomes for them, demonstrating 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’ll 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.

About you

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

Motivation and organisation with good time management skills and attention to detail in your work

Empathy, compassion and be able to build good relationships with customers andinternal and external stakeholders, such as other business areas, 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.

The extras you’ll get

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

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

Are you a Virgin Money colleague? Take a look at the Cross-Company Careers Guidance on VMx where you'll find information on how we manage cross-entity hires.

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’d also like to see a portfolio of some of your work.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application. If it’s already been defined please provide an overview of the assessment process and a timeline of when assessments will be.

The hiring manager for this role is Caroline Harrop and the main recruitment contact is Paul Metcalfe.

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