Total 2 job vacancies by Co-op Group

Asbestos Compliance Coordinator
£26,500 - £30,500 plus benefits (Work Level 6B)
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 an Asbestos Compliance Coordinator to join our Compliance team and help us make sure that our Co-op is fully compliant with asbestos regulations. You'll support the delivery of asbestos compliance management in our food, funeralcare, logistics and corporate estate areas. You'll be pivotal in making sure that we're optimising our relationship with the preferred asbestos consultants, and in turn maintaining a safe and healthy workplace for colleagues across the whole of the business.

As an Asbestos Compliance Coordinator, you'll act as the bridge between Co-op and the asbestos consultants that we partner with. It'll be up to you to make sure that surveys, analytical monitoring, and remedial works are being undertaken across the estate in a compliant way, and that consultants are delivering against key business objectives. If you have strong knowledge of compliance management in the asbestos arena, along with natural people skills, then we can offer you the opportunity to build your career with a business that puts people at the heart of its strategy.

What you'll do

● Manage relationships with key suppliers, making sure that key service levels agreements are being met
● Have involvement in regular asbestos working groups, providing valuable insight and sharing knowledge to colleagues
● Manage and support compliance in a dedicated part of our estate
● Coordinate and manage asbestos consultant activity and performance
● Deal effectively and efficiently with unforeseen circumstances when they arise
● Collaborate with a wide range of internal colleagues and external partners, building up meaningful relationships
● Monitor supply chain performance and programme delivery, spotting opportunities to improve processes and drive efficiencies
● Have the opportunity to work with highly experienced colleagues and to enhance your personal and professional skills

This role would suit people who have
● Experience of working within an asbestos consultancy or asbestos compliance role, with in-depth knowledge of asbestos compliance management, and familiarity with a compliance management system (such as Verisae or Compliance 365)
● A BOHS P405 qualification, or a desire to work towards this
● Outstanding communication skills both verbal and written, with the confidence to manage difficult conversations when agreements aren't being met
● The ability to engage with and influence people at different levels of the business and build strong relationships cross-functionally
● Strong Microsoft Excel skills including the ability to use Pivot table and VLOOKUPS

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
- 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.

Retail Risk and Compliance Analyst
£37,000 - £45,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6A)
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 Retail Risk and Compliance Analyst to join our Risk Health and Safety team and focus on process optimisation and reviewing our data to make sure we are compliant and trading legally and safely. If you can bring us the amazing analytical skills we need, we can offer you a chance to make a visible impact and build a career with a business that always puts people at the heart of its strategy.

We'll look to you to analyse data, identify trends and issues relating to health and safety compliance and potentially fraudulent transactional activity and develop data solutions that alert the business to fraud and health and safety risks. You'll be working with the development of new automation and processes whilst using the latest Microsoft Power platforms. It's a big job with a lot of responsibility. And it's an even greater opportunity for career development and the chance to make a huge impact leading the Co-op with integrating AI, reducing business loss, and making stores safer for our colleagues and customers.


What you'll do
- Be responsible for compliance reporting to make sure stores are operating safely and legally
- Manage the continued development of PowerBI applications
- Proactively look into automation and streamlining of processes
- Embrace latest business tools and new technology, including Power Automate and Power Apps
- Analyse all transactional data, looking at what's outside the norm and identifying trends and investigating suspicious transactions, collating information together to build a case
- Look at the data to identify opportunities to improve processes or spot training needs
- Complete weekly and period reporting, showing trends and highlighting opportunities for improvement
- Manage cases end-to-end, monitoring an inbox and responding to queries

This role would suit people who have
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Power Platform, with the ability to confidently manipulate data, use basic formulas and functions and produce reports
- Experience working with large sets of data, able to analyse and tell the story behind it
- An inquisitive mind-set, with the ability to spot trends and find solutions
- The ability to use data to tell a compelling story for other areas of the business
- Great communication skills, with a talent for building strong relationships with partners 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.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme