Group Resilience & Crisis Leadership Lead

Co-op Group; Manchester; Hybride; GBP 80 000 - 87 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual bonus

28 days holiday (32 with service)

£6,000 car allowance or company car

Private healthcare for you and your/21

Pension with up to 10% employer cont.

Onsite gym at Manchester HQ

Career development coaching

Résumé du poste

Co-op Group seeks a Group Business Resilience Lead to shape how we prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruption across our Food, Funeralcare, Legal Services, Insurance and Wholesale businesses. You will embed resilience across functions, lead crisis management, and drive a culture of preparedness through training and continuous improvement.

You will report to senior leaders and collaborate with the Group Board to safeguard our people, operations and customers while delivering on

Qualifications

• Strong experience in business resilience, crisis management and business continuity.
• Systems-thinking approach to complex organisations.
• Ability to spot risks, patterns and opportunities others may miss.
• Confidence and charisma to influence senior leaders and present ideas.
• Experience with relevant tech (GRC tools or resilience platforms).

Responsabilités

• Own the Group Business Resilience Framework and Policy, ensuring alignment with objectives and regulatory expectations.
• Advance and embed the Minimum Viable Company model and catalogue of critical services and assets.
• Lead and improve crisis management and business continuity programmes for effective response and recovery.
• Take a lead role in major incidents, coordinating post-incident reviews and lessons learned.
• Lead and develop a team of resilience experts across the organisation.
• Design, deliver and oversee resilience training and exercising programmes.
• Report resilience insights and trends to senior leaders and committees.
• Build strong cross-business relationships as a resilience expert.

Connaissances

Business resilience

Crisis management

Business continuity

Systems thinking

Influencing leaders

Risk identification

Tech experience (GRC tools)

Outils

GRC tools

Description du poste

Co-op Group seeks a Group Business Resilience Lead to shape how we prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruption across our Food, Funeralcare, Legal Services, Insurance and Wholesale businesses. You will embed resilience across functions, lead crisis management, and drive a culture of preparedness through training and continuous improvement.

You will report to senior leaders and collaborate with the Group Board to safeguard our people, operations and customers while delivering on