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Compliance Coordinator
£26,500 - £30,500 plus great benefits (Work Level 6B)
Manchester city centre, hybrid working

We’re looking for an Compliance Coordinator to join our compliance team and help us make sure that our Co-op is fully aligned 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 maintaining a safe and healthy workplace for colleagues across the whole of the business.

In this role, 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 a solid understanding 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

• Maintain 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
• Have involvement in ad-hoc project work
• 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

This role would suit people who have

• Experience of working within an asbestos consultancy or asbestos compliance role
• A good understanding 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
• The ability to engage with and influence people at different levels of the business and build positive relationships cross-functionally
• Great communication skills, with the confidence to manage difficult conversations when agreements aren’t being met
• 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
• 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.