Job Posting Title

Salary Band

Competitive

Grade: BL

Job Description

About the Role 

As our Head of Savings Strategy (NSSL), you'll play a key role in shaping Newcastle Strategic Solution’s understanding of the UK retail and SME savings market. Working closely with senior leaders, you'll bring together market insight, customer trends, competitor intelligence and regulatory developments to help inform strategic decisions and future opportunities. 

You'll act as NSSL's savings market specialist, developing a clear view of the evolving savings landscape and translating complex information into practical recommendations. Through your insight and expertise, you'll support proposition development, client growth, funding strategy and executive decision-making.  

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys combining strategic thinking with market analysis, influencing senior stakeholders and helping organisations make well-informed, customer-focused decisions.  

About You  

You're an experienced savings, deposits or funding professional with a strong understanding of the UK savings market and the factors that influence customer and business behaviour. You enjoy exploring data, identifying trends and turning insight into clear, meaningful recommendations.  

You'll bring experience of working within retail savings, banking or building society environments, along with the ability to communicate confidently with a range of stakeholders, including executive and board-level audiences. 

We're looking for someone who is: 

• Curious about market developments and customer needs. 

• Comfortable analysing information from a variety of sources. 

• Skilled at building positive relationships and influencing outcomes. 

• Able to communicate complex topics in a clear and accessible way. 

• Interested in supporting innovation and future thinking within the savings market.  

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to NSSL's strategic direction while working collaboratively across a wide range of teams and stakeholders. 

About Us  

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities. 

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you. 
 
What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes: 

Financial 

• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 15%, up to a maximum 22.5%) 

• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution) 

• Annual performance related pay reviews  

• Colleague mortgage scheme  

• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme  

• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection  

• Access to our financial advisers  

• Access to a range of high street and online discounts  

Work/Life Balance  

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions 

• 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays 

• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday  

• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based) 

• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood 

Health and Wellbeing  

• Private medical insurance  

• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme  

• Access to an employee assistance programme  

• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s 

• Two paid volunteering days’ each year 

• Cycle to work scheme 

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at kate.wilkinson@newcastle.co.uk

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