Senior Crisis Management Specialist

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Crisis Management Specialist

• Team: Crisis Management & Physical Security Coordination

• Focus: Group-wide crisis management framework, preparedness, and incident support

Description

You will strengthen and operate a Group-wide crisis management organisation to safeguard security of supply and protect people, critical infrastructure, and assets across the E.ON Group. You will work with crisis management professionals across German and European business units to improve crisis preparedness and response capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously improve the Group-wide crisis management framework, standards, and processes

• Initiate and drive Group-wide crisis management topics, supporting collaboration and knowledge sharing

• Lead crisis preparedness activities, including crisis plans, playbooks, exercises, training, and lessons-learned processes

• Coordinate and support the crisis management organisation during major incidents (activation, situation reporting, escalation)

• Provide structured decision support through situation assessments, scenario analysis, options, and recommendations

• Monitor threats and emerging risks and translate them into actionable situation reports and executive briefings

• Track regulatory requirements, industry developments, and best practices; translate them into practical improvements

• Coordinate and maintain interfaces with external partners such as authorities and emergency services

• Collaborate with Business Continuity, Physical Security, Communications, IT, OT, and other functions to strengthen organisational resilience

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in crisis management in a corporate, critical infrastructure, or similarly complex operational environment

• Proven experience developing and operating crisis management frameworks and supporting or managing crisis response

• Strong understanding of crisis management, emergency preparedness, critical infrastructure protection, and organisational resilience (including ISO 22361 and ISO 22301)

• Experience working with senior management and external crisis partners (authorities, emergency services, industry organisations)

• Experience with crisis management tools, alerting systems, and structured situation reporting (advantageous)

• Understanding of interdependencies between business operations, physical infrastructure, and IT/OT environments (ideally in energy or critical infrastructure)

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to structure complex situations and provide recommendations under pressure

• Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across functions, business units, and countries

• Strategic mindset with a hands-on approach, sound judgement, and strong ownership

• Business fluency in English and German (written and spoken)

• Relevant certifications or qualifications in crisis management or business continuity (advantageous)

Benefits

• 30 days of paid vacation plus Christmas and New Year’s Eve off

• Option to exchange salary for additional vacation or take a sabbatical

• Learning and development opportunities

• Hybrid work and up to 20 workation days per year within Europe

• Company-sponsored health membership

• Car and bike leasing and subsidised Deutschland-Ticket

• Company pension scheme and insurance package