# Group Business Resilience Lead

**Company**: Co-op
**Location**: Manchester, Lancashire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £80,000 to £87,000
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

We are seeking a Group Business Resilience Lead to join Co-op in Manchester city centre. The successful candidate will work in a hybrid manner, splitting time between home and the office. The role involves shaping how Co-op prepares for, responds to, and recovers from disruptions across its businesses.

The Group Business Resilience Lead will play a key role in strengthening resilience across Co-op's Food, Funeralcare, Legal Services, Insurance, and Wholesale businesses. This involves developing and embedding a resilience framework, ensuring readiness to respond to emerging challenges while keeping the organisation's purpose at heart.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning the Group Business Resilience Framework and Policy

- Advancing and embedding Co-op's Minimum Viable Company model

- Leading crisis management and business continuity programmes

- Responding to major incidents and coordinating post-incident reviews

- Leading a team of resilience experts and championing resilience across the organisation

- Designing and delivering resilience training and exercising programmes

- Reporting on resilience insights, risks, and trends to senior leaders

- Building strong relationships across the business as a trusted resilience expert

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in business resilience, crisis management, and business continuity, ideally within complex organisations. They should possess a systems-thinking approach, confidence, and charisma, with experience using relevant technology such as GRC tools or resilience platforms.

Benefits include:

- Annual bonus based on personal and business performance

- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays

- Pension with up to 10% employer contributions

- £6,000 car allowance or company car

- Private healthcare for you and your family

- Access to a subsidised onsite gym

- Coaching and training for career development

- Stream app providing access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

## Skills

### Required
- business resilience
- crisis management
- business continuity
- GRC tools
- resilience platforms

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