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.

Must Have

• Design, maintain, and further develop the global crisis management policy.
• Coordinate the setup and activation of the AS Crisis Team, including role definitions and decision workflows.
• Establish and refine alerting and communication procedures for fast and structured crisis response.
• Plan, execute, and evaluate crisis exercises and scenario-based simulations across international units.
• Develop and roll out templates, structures, and training materials for consistent crisis preparedness.
• Integrate and optimize digital preparedness tools for real-time situational awareness.
• Lead Global Threat Analysis (GTA) – structured evaluation of geopolitical and global developments.
• Develop foresight methodologies to strengthen long-term resilience and preparedness.
• Monitor geopolitical, societal, and security-related developments.
• Prepare situation reports, early-warning briefings, and decision support materials for senior management.
• Collaborate with international colleagues across the U.S., EU, and Germany.

Perks & Benefits

• Dedicated role owning the Risk Management pillar in a growing international team
• Direct impact on the safety and resilience of leading media brands
• Collaboration with colleagues across Europe and the U.S. in a dynamic environment
• Opportunity to build and shape resilience frameworks with global visibility
• Trainings and learning lunches
• Tech conferences
• Budget for workshops and much more to expand knowledge and skills
• Free breakfast snack
• Free lunch in canteens
• 20% mobile working

Crisis & Resilience Manager (m/w/d)

• Berlin
• Experienced Hire
• Part Time / Full Time

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 impact:

Crisis Preparedness & Response

• design, 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 workflows
• establish and refine alerting and communication procedures to ensure fast and structured crisis response
• plan, execute, and evaluate crisis exercises and scenario-based simulations across international units
• develop 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 awareness

Global Threat & Resilience Analysis

• lead 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 preparedness
• monitor 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 management
• collaborate with international colleagues across the U.S., EU, and Germany, ensuring alignment in threat monitoring and crisis response

What you'll need:

• a strong background in crisis management, security operations, or global analysis
• experience developing crisis policies, alerting systems, and exercise programs
• strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex developments into actionable insights
• understanding of geopolitical risks and their implications for business and media operations
• a proactive, independent, and structured working style combined with a collaborative mindset
• very good English skills; German (min. B2) required
• candidates from diverse professional paths are welcome, provided they have a strong understanding of security and resilience topics

What we offer:

• a dedicated role owning the Risk Management pillar in a growing international team
• direct 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 environment
• the opportunity to build and shape resilience frameworks with global visibility
• your 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 skills
• our free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, we also offer a free lunch in our canteens
• collaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
• from now a permanent full- or part-time position

Axel Springer SE is a family-owned transatlantic media company with offices in Berlin and New York. Our goal is to shape the future of journalism in the free world - because we are convinced that a free and informed society is the prerequisite for a functioning democracy.

With more than 10,000 employees, Axel Springer is active in over 25 countries. Our media brands such as BILD, BUSINESS INSIDER, MORNING BREW, POLITICO and WELT are at the center of our activities. Our portfolio is complemented by the marketing companies Awin, Bonial and Idealo as well as the digital market research institute Emarketer.

In Poland, we operate a joint venture with the media company Ringier, which includes the media brands FAKT, FORBES, NEWSWEEK, ONET and other high-reach offerings.

Questions and answers about the application process

The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq

Diversity 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/rsde

Contact person for this position (reference number REF2616F) is Julia Lange #LI-JL1