Legal Risk Manager

Join Our Team as a Legal Risk Manager

Are you ready to take on a high-impact role where you can shape the way legal risks are managed across a leading group?

Our General Counsel function is seeking a dedicated and experienced professional to join our team as a Legal Risk Manager who will report into the Head of Legal Operations to support them as the main owner of the Society’s legal risk taxonomy.

In this role, you’ll be at the forefront assessing, reporting, and managing legal risks across the Society, while optimizing our enterprise-wide risk management framework and tools, including RCSA, key controls, and risk dashboards. You’ll work closely with Operational Risk and senior stakeholders, ensuring legal risks are clearly defined, proactively monitored, and aligned with our risk appetite.

Beyond risk management, you’ll have the opportunity to lead on key initiatives, oversee critical deliverables for the General Counsel function, and prepare high-impact executive reports for risk committees. You’ll also collaborate directly with the General Counsel Senior Leadership Team, influencing strategic decision-making at the highest level.

If you’re passionate about legal risk, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you!

The role is ideal for someone has professional skills, knowledge, and experience in risk or legal. To be successful in this role it’s essential you have:

Essential experience needed:

• Have experience of working within a Compliance, Risk or Legal Function for a Financial Services Institution
• Successfully developed and implemented firm-wide risk management policies and procedures
• Growth mindset, adapt to new challenges and champion a continuous improvement culture
• You will have a desire to learn so you can assist on a range of matters across the GC function,
• Proven experience of BAU continuous improvement activities and Project Management methodology
• Excellent communication skills, and ability to produce and cascade firm-wide training and guidance material

Desirable experience needed:

• Relevant qualifications in risk management or legal compliance
• Experience in risk-related projects and contentious regulatory matters
• Ability to convey complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. 

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

If you would like to opt in to the scheme please contact our recruitment team when you apply via Get in touch - Coventry Building Society (coventrycareers.co.uk)