Jobs at Co-op

Own the end-to-end drafting, negotiation, amendment, signature, storage, and administration of business customer sales contracts. Advise sales, finance, legal, propositions, and operations teams; ensure contracts reflect approved commercial positions; identify and resolve risks, disputes, and compliance issues; and improve contract templates, terms, processes, and governance standards.

Own and develop the organisation’s range optimisation strategy, including range guardrails, store clustering, and range review processes. Lead and develop the Range Optimisation team, collaborate with customer and commercial stakeholders, and translate category strategies into optimised assortments. Use data, insights, tools, and systems to improve product ranges across stores, while supporting tests, trials, and change initiatives that deliver strong customer, commercial, and operational outcomes.

Provides compassionate funeral services by supporting ceremonies, leading teams, guiding clients, meeting service standards and KPIs, and maintaining community relationships. Duties include preparing, transporting, and caring for deceased individuals, conducting funerals, carrying the deceased when needed, and ensuring regulated work is handled by certified colleagues. The role includes evening and weekend on-call duties and requires a UK manual driving licence.

Arrange funeral services and support bereaved families with empathy, professionalism, and discretion. Responsibilities include client communication, scheduling family visits, maintaining a clean and welcoming funeral home, managing documentation and invoicing through digital systems, updating client records, handling coffins, and assisting with the care and preparation of deceased individuals. Full training is provided, including training for manual handling and safe working practices.

Arrange funeral services and support families with empathy, professionalism, and discretion. Duties include client communication, scheduling visits, maintaining a clean and welcoming funeral home, managing documentation and invoicing, updating client records, handling regulated referrals, and assisting with the preparation, care, transportation, and manual handling of deceased individuals and coffins.

Leads Co-op’s commercial relationship with independent cooperative societies across the UK, representing a major trading channel. Manages commercial specialists, drives adoption of promotional and category plans, strengthens supplier and partner relationships, identifies growth opportunities through sales and profitability analysis, and represents partner needs in governance and commercial decision-making.

Provides internal organisation development consulting across Co-op businesses. Partners with senior leaders to diagnose organisational challenges, lead effectiveness projects, design structures and operating models, develop governance and accountability frameworks, analyse qualitative and quantitative insights, and support transformation and change initiatives. The role focuses on systems thinking, organisational performance, collaboration, culture, capability, and practical recommendations for lasting organisational improvement.

Provide technical accounting expertise across the organization, including IFRS reporting, impairment assessments, accounting policies, statutory accounts, and annual and interim financial reports. Advise finance stakeholders and leadership, prepare technical accounting papers and impairment models, collaborate with external auditors, and strengthen financial control processes. The role requires an accountancy qualification, post-qualified experience, strong Excel skills, and the ability to manage complex financial data and competing priorities.

Lead enterprise-wide data architecture across conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Provide strategic and technical direction for major transformation programs, data platforms, governance, integration, and AI enablement. Partner with engineering and business teams to deliver secure, scalable data solutions, while coaching data architects and influencing investment decisions. Apply expertise in master data management, metadata management, and Databricks Lakehouse architecture.

Provides funeral arrangement and client support across approximately 15 funeral homes. Duties include building community relationships, answering questions, arranging family visits, maintaining safe and welcoming branches, managing documentation and invoicing, updating client records, and referring regulated funeral-plan work. The role also involves manual handling, transportation, and preparation of deceased individuals for viewing. Full training is provided, but a UK driving licence, access to a vehicle, empathy, accuracy, IT skills, and independent working ability are required.

Lead creation and delivery of quarterly and annual trade plans to drive sales, market share and customer value. Use sales data, customer insight and market trends to shape promotions, guide category decisions, partner with commercial, marketing and comms, and run post-implementation reviews to improve in-store experiences and consistency.

Arrange and coordinate funerals while supporting clients compassionately in person and by phone. Maintain a clean, safe branch environment, manage documentation and invoicing through digital systems, and uphold regulatory processes. Duties also include transporting and preparing the deceased, moving coffins, arranging family visits, and travelling across North Glasgow. Full training is provided.

Arrange and coordinate funeral services while supporting clients in person and by phone. Maintain welcoming funeral-home environments, manage documentation, invoicing, and client records using digital systems, and refer regulated funeral-plan work appropriately. Duties also include transporting and preparing deceased individuals, assisting with coffin handling, arranging family visits, and maintaining health and safety standards. The role requires empathy, discretion, accurate administration, independent working, driving, and regular travel across assigned communities.

Arrange funerals and support clients in person and by phone while maintaining a welcoming branch environment. Duties include managing documentation, invoicing, client records, family visits, and regulated referrals. The role also involves travelling between locations, manual handling of coffins, and assisting with the care and preparation of deceased individuals. Full training is provided, and a full UK manual driving licence with vehicle access is required.

Arrange funeral services and support families in person and by phone. Maintain a clean, safe, welcoming funeral home; manage documentation, invoicing, and client records using digital systems. Assist with family visits, coffin handling, and the preparation, transportation, and personal care of deceased individuals. Deliver sensitive, professional service while following health, safety, and regulatory procedures.

Lead application and data security architecture across cloud platforms, APIs, applications, and data services. Establish secure-by-design standards using NIST, CIS, Zero Trust, and shift-left practices; lead threat modeling; define security patterns for development, data protection, access management, cryptography, and APIs; and provide governance, assurance, audit, and regulatory support. Collaborate with architects, engineers, and senior stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient, scalable technology.

Maintain accurate product, pricing, promotional, location, and supplier data across Commercial and Supply Chain systems. Process and review large volumes of information, respond to colleague queries, identify inconsistencies and trends, support business change projects, and improve processes. The role requires collaboration across business functions, strong attention to detail, organization, adaptability, and basic Microsoft Office 365 skills. Full training is provided.

Lead IAM security architecture strategy across enterprise platforms, applications, data, and partner ecosystems. Define identity standards, access controls, security patterns, and Zero Trust practices; provide assurance for authentication, authorization, privileged access, and identity risks. Govern IAM solutions, support audits and compliance, guide secure-by-design decisions, and influence senior stakeholders across security, platform, and delivery teams.

Handle high-volume inbound calls from probate clients, answer queries, provide case progression updates, manage expectations, arrange meetings with case managers, maintain task lists, and complete ad hoc team requests. The role requires empathetic communication, strong organization, prioritization, adaptability, and a commitment to positive customer outcomes. Full training is provided, and no legal experience is required.

Arrange and coordinate funeral services while supporting families in person and by phone. Maintain accurate documentation, invoicing, and client records using digital systems. Maintain a clean, safe, welcoming branch and report maintenance issues. Assist with coffin handling, transportation, viewing preparation, and personal care of the deceased. Travel between client meetings and branches, work independently, and provide empathetic, discreet service.