Total 33 business management project planning job vacancies in London, Greater London, BR2 8HE

Demand Planning Assistant
£23,400 plus great benefits (Work Level 6C)

12-month fixed term contract
Manchester, hybrid working, minimum one day a week in the office
5/7 working pattern, working up to 12 weekend days a year on a rota basis (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)

We're looking for a motivated Demand Planning Assistant to join our category team. In this role, you'll be supporting colleagues within category teams, helping to make sure that things are running smoothly, and providing high quality administrative support. This is a great opportunity for you to develop your skills, and to gain valuable exposure across Co-op's Supply Chain. It's an ideal role for someone looking to progress their career in this exciting area of our business.

What you'll do

• Support data integrity making sure that compliance to process is sustained
• Provide continued support to categories through reporting and process compliance
• Support a range of ad-hoc administrative tasks
• Work closely with the Demand Planners, supporting with range events and promotions, helping to make sure that compliance is right
• Support supply chain category management, working collaboratively with internal and external partners
• Work on a range of ad-hoc projects to support the team as required and opportunity to investigate and analyse forecasting queries from suppliers and our store teams

This role would suit people who have

• Some previous admin experience with intermediate Microsoft Office 365 skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) with the ability to learn new systems quickly
• Experience of working in an administrative role
• A high level of attention to detail
• Openness to change and a desire to learn and progress your career within the Coop
• Confident communication skills with the ability to engage with a range of colleagues at different levels

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
  * 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
  * A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
  * Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
  * Coaching and training to support your career development
  * Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Business Process Partner - Data
£55,000 to £65,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester City Centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office at least twice a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy.

We're looking for a Business Process Partner to join the Optimisation Centre team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You'll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of 'co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day'.

As a Business Process Partner within data, you'll try and identify improvements in ways of managing data and optimise our current systems. We'll look to you to engage our internal teams and always look for ways we can continuously improve in the future. This new role gives you the opportunity to grow your knowledge and experience within SAP whilst working within our Optimisation Centre supporting our Co-op.

What you'll do

• Lead on the business assurance of efficient and diligent data practices through programmes of change within Co-op
• Deliver efficient data design services, making sure we meet the operational requirements of SAP and other ERP systems data
• Optimise the maintenance and storage of data to support the lowest cost to serve
• Provide business assurance using analytics and information management to optimise large scale multi-year programmes of change within our data landscape
• Make sure technical solutions are developed in accordance with data policies
• Identify and mitigate risk profile in relation to data when scoping programmes
• Communicate with colleagues across the business to explain technical changes in a clear way

This role would suit people who have

• Previous experience of working on ERP and SAP implementations
• Previous experience of data migration on ECC.6 or S4
• Functional understanding or knowledge of SAP modules
• An understanding of Master data and Transactional data objects
• The ability to work and build successful relationships with senior leaders

Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Private healthcare for you
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.
As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.

Estate Planning Solicitor
£32,000-£44,000 plus excellent benefits (Work level 6A)
Full time, 37.5 hours
We're now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home and any of our offices in Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, or Stratford upon Avon. Visit colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy for more information.

We're looking for estate planning solicitors to join our technical Estate Planning team within Co-op Legal Services.

At Co-op Legal Services we do things differently, whether that's continuously innovating our technology to support your delivery or our tailored internal progression framework to support your development. We're committed to providing an exceptional client experience and the opportunity to build a rewarding career with us. In this role you'll manage estate planning cases end to end with a client-focussed approach to targets. You won't need to bring a following of clients with you as we will source new work for you. We've doubled our Estate Planning team within the past few years, and as we continue to grow, there will be plenty of opportunity for progression.

What you'll do

* own caseload of complex Estate Planning cases to include Wills, Trusts and LPAs
* use our case management system to make sure information is recorded accurately
* engage with clients mainly by telephone and email
* work collaboratively with expert support from the team to continually develop your legal skills, administrative support will also be provided at certain case levels
* use your legal knowledge to mentor more junior members of the team

This role would suit people who have

* qualified as a solicitor or chartered legal executive or TEP qualification, with a background in estate planning
* knowledge of tax systems within England & Wales;
* strong attention to detail and the ability to draft documents
* the ability to use your initiative and effectively prioritise your work
* a client-focused approach with the ability to build positive relationships in a remote setting

Why Co-op?

Here you'll do work that matters. Co-op is an organisation with a purpose beyond profit, and by contributing to our success you'll help us to realise our vision of co-operating for a fairer world. You'll also get a package that includes:
* competitive salary
* private healthcare
* coaching, training and support to help you develop
* pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* annual incentive scheme
* Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
* 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
* discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you're successful in your application, we'll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Facilities Management Co-ordinator - Non-Trading
£37,000 - £42,000 plus great benefits (Work level 6A)
Full time, 37.5 hours, permanent
Manchester city centre - We're now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home/remote working and the office. You can find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy

We're looking for a Facilities Management (FM) Co-ordinator to join our property team and support the facilities management for our non-trading estate's portfolio.

At Co-op Property, we have around 2,500 units across 1,000 different locations, and we'll look to you to support us in making sure we're compliant across these portfolios. This is varied role where you'll gain exposure across all our business areas, providing you the chance to develop your skills and build a rewarding career in an exciting area of the business.

What you'll do:

* Support the team to make sure that our non-trading estate is as compliant as possible
* Coordinate the day-to-day running of compliance across the non-trading estate
* Create reports and provide insights to the wider team
* Manage remedial quotations for work that comes from compliance reports across the estate
* Instruct compliance certification and make sure remedial action is taking place.

This role would suit people who have

* A broad understanding of compliance within the property sector
* A background in either residential or commercial property
* Excellent analytical skills with the ability to gather and analyse data from different sources

Why Co-op?

Here you'll do work that matters. We're a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you'll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You'll also get a package that includes:
* coaching, training and support to help you develop
* wellbeing benefits to support your physical and mental health
* pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
* discounts on Co-op products and services

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building an inclusive workplace

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.

Estate Planning Solicitor
£32,000-£44,000 plus excellent benefits (Work level 6A)
Full time, 37.5 hours
We're now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home and any of our offices in Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, or Stratford upon Avon. Visit colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy for more information.

We're looking for estate planning solicitors to join our technical Estate Planning team within Co-op Legal Services.

At Co-op Legal Services we do things differently, whether that's continuously innovating our technology to support your delivery or our tailored internal progression framework to support your development. We're committed to providing an exceptional client experience and the opportunity to build a rewarding career with us. In this role you'll manage estate planning cases end to end with a client-focussed approach to targets. You won't need to bring a following of clients with you as we will source new work for you. We've doubled our Estate Planning team within the past few years, and as we continue to grow, there will be plenty of opportunity for progression.

What you'll do

* own caseload of complex Estate Planning cases to include Wills, Trusts and LPAs
* use our case management system to make sure information is recorded accurately
* engage with clients mainly by telephone and email
* work collaboratively with expert support from the team to continually develop your legal skills, administrative support will also be provided at certain case levels
* use your legal knowledge to mentor more junior members of the team

This role would suit people who have

* qualified as a solicitor or chartered legal executive or TEP qualification, with a background in estate planning
* knowledge of tax systems within England & Wales;
* strong attention to detail and the ability to draft documents
* the ability to use your initiative and effectively prioritise your work
* a client-focused approach with the ability to build positive relationships in a remote setting

Why Co-op?

Here you'll do work that matters. Co-op is an organisation with a purpose beyond profit, and by contributing to our success you'll help us to realise our vision of co-operating for a fairer world. You'll also get a package that includes:
* competitive salary
* private healthcare
* coaching, training and support to help you develop
* pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* annual incentive scheme
* Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
* 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
* discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you're successful in your application, we'll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Head of Business to Business Propositions Development
£100,000 to £115,000 plus great benefits including 10% employer pension contribution, private healthcare for you and your family, and a company car or £6,000 car allowance (Work Level 4)
Manchester City Centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

We're looking for a Head of Business to Business (B2B) Propositions Development to join our Co-op. In Co-op B2B we grow by bringing the best of Co-op to trusted partners. In this role you'll lead the development of new B2B propositions, making sure the total solution meets the needs of our partners and their shoppers. We'll look to you to align the business behind our propositions vision, to partner with different areas of the business to understand their role in this vision and manage the delivery of the key component parts.

In this role you'll be focussed on a wide range of topics - including marketing, ranging, operations, technology, and commercial models - and whilst you don't need to be an expert in these topics, we'll look to you to bring the total solution together through strategic leadership and influencing, giving you great exposure across our matrix organisation.

What you'll do
- Set the vision for our mid- to long-term plans within B2B propositions, articulating opportunities to grow our business
- Spend time with our accounts teams and partners to understand their needs and how Co-op can uniquely service them
- Keep up to date with the external market landscape to ensure that our B2B propositions are positioned to win versus our competitors
- Communicate clearly and engage with colleagues across the business about our vision for B2B propositions and their role in delivering it
- Manage the delivery and regularly interact with internal partners to provide clarity and support the execution of respective parts of the solution
- Define the commercial models of our B2B propositions and the associated target economics to ensure profitability
- Partner with our B2B marketing and sales teams to position our propositions effectively to our target markets.

This role would suit people who have
- Strategic and commercial acumen, with an entrepreneurial spirit
- The ability to build trusted partnerships to align different teams' skills to support a shared vision
- Experience setting up strategic level roadmaps and plans
- The ability to understand a wide breadth of topics, from brand to ranging and technology to operational service - albeit you'll not need to be an expert in any
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to challenge and influence
- An understanding of the B2B market

Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Private healthcare for you and your family
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.
As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.

Finance Business Partner - Funeralcare
£60,000 to £66,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester city centre (hybrid working)

We're looking for a Finance Business Partner to join us in Manchester to work with our Funeralcare Operations colleagues, including our Head of Support Operations, Regional Operation Managers, and Head of Transport. In this role you'll work in a hybrid way - splitting your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

As a Finance Business Partner at Co-op, you'll work closely alongside our Finance and Operations teams and provide useful insights around the financial performance of our funeral homes and look for new opportunities where we can deliver value. We'll look to you to attend periodic business reviews; providing updates on our financial objectives and recommendations as to how we can improve the financial performance of our Funeralcare operations.

What you'll do

• Build and manage effective relationships with colleagues of all levels of seniority within our Funeralcare business area
• Work alongside our Funeralcare Operations teams, helping them to understand our financial numbers, and suggesting ways to improve performance at a funeral home, care centre, and regional level
• Provide actionable insights and reports to colleagues, including those at Director-level, to minimise risks and maximise opportunities
• Lead problem-solving support in a programme/project capacity, ensuring control and achievement of desired outcomes
• Lead the delivery of our financial budget, 4YP, and forecasts for Funeralcare and Central Operations
• Be responsible for our Operations payroll budget
• Carry-out financial modelling to assess proposed initiatives
• Support longer-term scenario planning and resolution of business problems with forward looking insight and business relevant knowledge

This role would suit people who have

• Experience in a Business Partner role
• Experience working in a large-scale and complex commercial environment and managing relationships with multiple partners
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (e.g. PowerPoint and Excel)
• Good communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information to non-finance audiences
• Good relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and challenge people inclusively

Why Co-op?

If you've got the skills and experience we're looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You'll also get:

• Private healthcare
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

Building an inclusive work environment

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.

Business Process Partner - Data

£50,000 to £60,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)

Manchester City Centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office at least twice a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

We're looking for a Business Process Partner to join the Optimisation Centre team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You'll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of 'co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day'.

As a Business Process Partner within data, you'll try and identify improvements in ways of managing data and optimise our current systems. We'll look to you to engage our internal teams and always look for ways we can continuously improve in the future. This new role gives you the opportunity to grow your knowledge and experience within SAP whilst working within our Optimisation Centre supporting our Co-op.

What you'll do

• Lead on the business assurance of efficient and diligent data practices through programmes of change within Co-op
• Deliver efficient data design services, making sure we meet the operational requirements of SAP and other ERP systems data
• Optimise the maintenance and storage of data to support the lowest cost to serve
• Provide business assurance using analytics and information management to optimise large scale multi-year programmes of change within our data landscape
• Make sure technical solutions are developed in accordance with data policies
• Identify and mitigate risk profile in relation to data when scoping programmes
• Communicate with colleagues across the business to explain technical changes in a clear way

This role would suit people who have

• Previous experience of working on ERP and SAP implementations
• Previous experience of data migration on ECC.6 or S4
• Functional understanding or knowledge of SAP modules
• An understanding of Master data and Transactional data objects
• The ability to work and build successful relationships with senior leaders

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Private healthcare for you
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.

Estate Planning Solicitor
£32,000-£44,000 plus excellent benefits (Work level 6A)
Full time, 37.5 hours
We're now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home and any of our offices in Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, or Stratford upon Avon. Visit colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy for more information.

We're looking for estate planning solicitors to join our technical Estate Planning team within Co-op Legal Services.

At Co-op Legal Services we do things differently, whether that's continuously innovating our technology to support your delivery or our tailored internal progression framework to support your development. We're committed to providing an exceptional client experience and the opportunity to build a rewarding career with us. In this role you'll manage estate planning cases end to end with a client-focussed approach to targets. You won't need to bring a following of clients with you as we will source new work for you. We've doubled our Estate Planning team within the past few years, and as we continue to grow, there will be plenty of opportunity for progression.

What you'll do

* own caseload of complex Estate Planning cases to include Wills, Trusts and LPAs
* use our case management system to make sure information is recorded accurately
* engage with clients mainly by telephone and email
* work collaboratively with expert support from the team to continually develop your legal skills, administrative support will also be provided at certain case levels
* use your legal knowledge to mentor more junior members of the team

This role would suit people who have

* qualified as a solicitor or chartered legal executive or TEP qualification, with a background in estate planning
* knowledge of tax systems within England & Wales;
* strong attention to detail and the ability to draft documents
* the ability to use your initiative and effectively prioritise your work
* a client-focused approach with the ability to build positive relationships in a remote setting

Why Co-op?

Here you'll do work that matters. Co-op is an organisation with a purpose beyond profit, and by contributing to our success you'll help us to realise our vision of co-operating for a fairer world. You'll also get a package that includes:
* competitive salary
* private healthcare
* coaching, training and support to help you develop
* pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* annual incentive scheme
* Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
* 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
* discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you're successful in your application, we'll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.

Lead Financial Planning Manager
£60,000 - £70,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester city centre
We're now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between working from home and our Manchester office. You can visit our Hybrid Working Policy for more information https://colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybridworkingpolicy

We're looking for a lead financial planning manager to join Co-op finance and lead the planning and reporting across our Funerals business. You'll be working closely with our senior finance leaders and the wider business, making sure that all strategies, initiatives, risks, and opportunities are accurately reflected in our future plans. We've got a big job on our hands to transform the way we do business at Co-op. And when we get it right, it'll have even bigger benefits for our members, customers, and colleagues.

As a lead financial planning manager, you'll be playing a key part in the team that's responsible for analysing performance and trends, providing insights from that data and forecasting, budgeting, and planning for the future. We'll look to you to co-ordinate delivery across the team and act as the glue that binds our planning and reporting activities together in line with our finance strategy. If you can bring us the great people skills and strong technical knowledge that we need, we can offer you the chance to build your career with a business that puts people at the heart of its strategy.

What you'll do

* lead the planning and reporting across the Funerals business
* engage with senior teams across the business to make sure any financial impacts, risks, and opportunities are understood and reflected in the budget and forecast
* co-ordinate the team delivery of periodic latest views, together with more formal budgets and forecasts, as well as co-ordination of the multi-year plan, making sure that the correct assumptions accurately reflect how we expect to outturn
* present accurate and meaningful insights into the data, telling the performance story and informing our strategic decision making
* produce clear planning and reporting communication packs for a range of audiences up to senior level
* have a focus on continuous improvement and drive innovation in processes and outputs

This role would suit people who have

* an accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA etc.)
* experience working as a finance manager in a similar role, with a focus on planning, analysis, and reporting
* proven experience managing budgets and forecasting
* strong communication skills with the ability to present to financial and non-financial audiences, challenging and influencing to senior level
* good knowledge of finance systems and processes, including general ledger and/or BI tools
* the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a culture of continuous change
* a track record of owning key projects and working as a team to deliver them

Why Co-op?

Here you'll do work that matters. We're a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you'll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You'll also get a package that includes:
* competitive salary
* private healthcare
* coaching, training and support to help you develop
* pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* annual incentive scheme
* Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
* 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
* discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you're successful in your application, we'll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.

Estate Planning Solicitor
£32,000-£44,000 plus excellent benefits (Work level 6A)
Full time, 37.5 hours
We're now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home and any of our offices in Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, or Stratford upon Avon. Visit colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy for more information.

We're looking for estate planning solicitors to join our technical Estate Planning team within Co-op Legal Services.

At Co-op Legal Services we do things differently, whether that's continuously innovating our technology to support your delivery or our tailored internal progression framework to support your development. We're committed to providing an exceptional client experience and the opportunity to build a rewarding career with us. In this role you'll manage estate planning cases end to end with a client-focussed approach to targets. You won't need to bring a following of clients with you as we will source new work for you. We've doubled our Estate Planning team within the past few years, and as we continue to grow, there will be plenty of opportunity for progression.

What you'll do

* own caseload of complex Estate Planning cases to include Wills, Trusts and LPAs
* use our case management system to make sure information is recorded accurately
* engage with clients mainly by telephone and email
* work collaboratively with expert support from the team to continually develop your legal skills, administrative support will also be provided at certain case levels
* use your legal knowledge to mentor more junior members of the team

This role would suit people who have

* qualified as a solicitor or chartered legal executive or TEP qualification, with a background in estate planning
* knowledge of tax systems within England & Wales;
* strong attention to detail and the ability to draft documents
* the ability to use your initiative and effectively prioritise your work
* a client-focused approach with the ability to build positive relationships in a remote setting

Why Co-op?

Here you'll do work that matters. Co-op is an organisation with a purpose beyond profit, and by contributing to our success you'll help us to realise our vision of co-operating for a fairer world. You'll also get a package that includes:
* competitive salary
* private healthcare
* coaching, training and support to help you develop
* pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* annual incentive scheme
* Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
* 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
* discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you're successful in your application, we'll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.

Project Officer
£39,500 to £43,500 plus great benefits (Work Level 6A)
Manchester City Centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office when required (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).
12-month secondment / fixed-term contract

We're looking for a Project Officer to join the Talent Acquisition and Development team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You'll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of 'co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day'.

As a Project Officer you'll be aligned to different SAP projects that come to our Talent Acquisition and Development team and manage them end-to-end. We'll look to you to be part of these bigger transformation activities, collaborating and updating our senior leaders across a variety of business areas. If you can bring us the skills we need with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment we can offer you a great opportunity to gain exposure to SAP systems and the wider Co-op business.

What you'll do
- Create and maintain a range of complex project and programme plans/trackers
- Work closely with a broad range of colleagues, partners, and external contacts
- Collaborate with SAP Content Designers to make sure we can provide design progress updates
- Support the critical business partnership with the Optimisation Centre and SAP security teams
- Achieve plan deliverables on time and to the highest possible quality
- Look for ways to continuously improve and strengthen our internal processes related to SAP learning
- Manage any potential risks or issues that may arise, making sure they are appropriately flagged and resolved

This role would suit people who have
- Experience in project management or knowledge of P4CM, PRINCE 2 or equivalent
- Proficient with Office 365 applications, with advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- A collaborative approach with the ability to build strong relationships with internal partners, customers, and external contacts
- An understanding of project management methodologies
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present back ideas and engage internal senior leaders

Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

Business Process Partner - Finance
£50,000 to £60,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester City Centre, in this role you'll split your time between home and coming into the Manchester office at least twice a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

We're looking for a Business Process Partner to join the partnering team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You'll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of 'co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day'.

We'll look to you to be part of a new team in our Optimisation Centre (OC) offering a service to our new SAP S4 HANA Solution to our colleagues, making sure our integrated solutions meet our business requirements. Through service partnering, you'll link all the relevant areas of the business and look to continuously improve the Businesses SAP End to End processes. If you have an analytical approach and an awareness of end-to-end processes, this is a great opportunity to develop your skills.

What you'll do
- Develop and optimise the 3 main end-to-end business processes, supported by business subject matter experts, BPPs, Process Analysts and Technical Specialists
- Partner with senior leaders and their teams to make sure initiatives needing OC support are understood and fed into the triage process to support roadmap planning and prioritisation
- Attend governance forums and planning sessions to understand future direction, potential requirements, and wider sources of change from other programmes
- Partner with teams of business analysts and subject matter specialists to deliver improvements
- Drive knowledge transfer between the OC and the business areas, acting as the point of contact for end users
- Represent the team on large transformation programmes, providing the relevant input to process or solution design decisions and ensuring alignment with the OC roadmap
- Work with monitoring analysts to develop key performance metrics
- Provide advice on specific training needs and the development of training materials
- Identify risks and issues, taking ownership of delivering solutions and mitigation

This role would suit people who have
- A finance background with knowledge and understanding of Finance end-to-end processes
- Great communication skills, with the ability to engage and present to technical and non-technical audiences in a compelling way
- Good influencing skills, with the ability to constructively challenge when necessary
- A talent for building positive relationships with partners at all levels across the business

Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Private healthcare
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
- YuLife app - rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

Head of Planning & Member Experience
£160,000-£170,000 plus benefits including healthcare, car allowance and an annual bonus (Work Level 3)
Manchester city centre
In this role you'll work in a hybrid way, splitting your time between home and 2 days a week in our Manchester office

We're looking for a Head of Planning & Member Experience to join our Membership & Customer team here at Co-op.

In this role, you'll own the vision, design principles and recommendations for our end-to-end member user experience and support the strategic co-ordination and alignment of pan-Co-op comms planning.

You'll be joining at an exciting time as we re-introduce Co-op to the nation through a bold new campaign highlighting the unique power of our co-operative, member-owned business model.

By improving the planning, visibility and efficiency of Membership & Customer comms, budget and spend across Co-op, you'll contribute to the growth of our membership and our businesses over the years to come.

What you'll do

* Own the end to end Customer and Member Experience, providing clear visibility of the short, medium and long-term Member-Owner experience vision, and drive cohesive delivery across our businesses
* Business & communication planning, overseeing the strategic coordination of communications, making sure we're clear on what we are saying, when and to whom, and aligning to form a coherent narrative that drives the commercial and customer KPIs
* Align functions together, driving planning visibility and use actionable insight to ensure functional connectedness: you'll have a dotted line connecting you to heads of marketing across our Life Services, Nisa/Wholesale and Franchise business areas
* Work with the Group Insight team to develop learning plans and share actionable (market, customer, member and colleague) insight across the business
* Drive effectiveness and efficiency, making sure we get best value from the pan Co-op marketing investment, working with commercial finance, data science and insights team and using insight to understand how we drive value through the Co-op ecosystem

This role would suit people who have

* Either a background in a retail planning, analytics and insight or customer experience, at a leadership level, where analytics and 'turning insight to action' have been a key part of your role
* Demonstrable experience in leading an organisation with data driven arguments
* The ability to have successful analytically driven conversations with senior partners
* Strong commercial insight with the ability to size and impact assess commercial and customer centric recommendations
* Experience in business planning and market optimisation
* The ability to build and leverage strong collaborative relationships across a matrixed organization, leading the thinking of both senior leadership and those who they may or may not be functionally connected to.

Why Co-op?

At Co-op, we co-operate to build more value for our member-owners every day. We're owned by our members and our colleague-members. And because we're owned by you, we can do right by you.

If you can help lead our Membership & Customer team, we can offer you an excellent salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You'll also get…

* An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
* 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
* A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* Private healthcare for you and your family
* A car or car allowance worth £6,000 per year
* Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)

Building an inclusive working environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

Find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy.

Workforce Management Analyst - Funeralcare
£38,000 - £42,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6A)
Manchester city centre - hybrid working between home and the office

We're looking for workforce management (WFM) analyst to join our Funeralcare central operations team to make sure our business is running as efficiently and smoothly as possible.

In this role, you'll be working on a variety of projects across the Funeralcare estate, from design through to deployment. We'll look to you work with our senior leaders and insight teams to develop and maintain the labour model and WFM application. You'll focus on delivering a fair, accurate and trusted application, driving continuous improvement and ongoing development of the application. If you have the analytical skills that we need, we can offer you the opportunity to make a real impact on the future of our Funeralcare business in this varied role.

What you'll do

* analyse data to design strategies, documentation and activities to engage and educate field teams in the use of the WFM application
* manage the WFM application, making sure all organisational labour requirements are aligned to the operating model
* work closely with key partners and colleagues across the business to gather feedback and mitigate issues
* analyse current operating processes across our Funeralcare business and identify areas we can improve
* engage with front line colleagues across the Funeralcare business to better understand how we can make improvements
* model, trial and evaluate scenarios to understand the impact of different change initiatives

This role would suit people who have

* previous experience in an analyst role
* strong analytical skills - you're comfortable working with data and numbers
* good communication and influencing skills
* the ability to build meaningful relationships with colleagues and senior leaders across the business
* a flexible approach to their work

Why Co-op?

Here you'll do work that matters. We're a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you'll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You'll also get a package that includes:
* competitive salary
* coaching, training and support to help you develop
* pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* annual incentive scheme
* 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 32 in line with service)
* discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.