Crisis & Resilience Manager (m/w/d)

Axel Springer’s Global Resilience Management team ensures preparedness and resilience across our international media group. Our mission is to protect employees and journalists – including those reporting from high-risk and conflict zones – by providing robust crisis, intelligence, and security frameworks.As Crisis & Resilience Manager, you will take ownership of global crisis preparedness and resilience initiatives. You will develop and refine crisis structures, strengthen alerting and communication procedures, and lead scenario planning and exercises. In addition, you will support global threat analysis and foresight to help Axel Springer anticipate emerging developments and make informed strategic decisions.We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five essentials are the values that unite us and guide us in our commitment to freedom.How you'll make an impactCrisis Preparedness & Responsedesign, maintain, and further develop the global crisis management policy, ensuring clear ownership, escalation paths, and coordination processes and coordinate the setup and activation of the AS Crisis Team, including role definitions and decision workflowsestablish and refine alerting and communication procedures to ensure fast and structured crisis responseplan, execute, and evaluate crisis exercises and scenario-based simulations across international unitsdevelop and roll out templates, structures, and training materials to ensure consistent crisis preparedness across brands and countries and integrate and optimize digital preparedness tools for real-time situational awarenessGlobal Threat & Resilience Analysislead Global Threat Analysis (GTA) – structured evaluation of geopolitical and global developments affecting Axel Springer’s people, brands, and operations and develop foresight methodologies to strengthen long-term resilience and preparednessmonitor geopolitical, societal, and security-related developments, including elections, unrest, terrorism, and infrastructure disruptions and prepare situation reports, early-warning briefings, and decision support materials for senior managementcollaborate with international colleagues across the U.S., EU, and Germany, ensuring alignment in threat monitoring and crisis response What you'll needa strong background in crisis management, security operations, or global analysisexperience developing crisis policies, alerting systems, and exercise programsstrong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex developments into actionable insightsunderstanding of geopolitical risks and their implications for business and media operationsa proactive, independent, and structured working style combined with a collaborative mindsetvery good English skills; German (min. B2) requiredcandidates from diverse professional paths are welcome, provided they have a strong understanding of security and resilience topicsWhat we offera dedicated role owning the Risk Management pillar in a growing international teamdirect impact on the safety and resilience of leading media brands (POLITICO, WELT, BILD, Business Insider, RASP) as well as collaboration with colleagues across Europe and the U.S. in a dynamic environmentthe opportunity to build and shape resilience frameworks with global visibilityyour personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skillsour free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, we also offer a free lunch in our canteenscollaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile workingfrom now a permanent full- or part-time positionQuestions and answers about the application processThe most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faqDiversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsdeContact person for this position (reference number REF2616F) is Julia Lange