Gross monthly salary between € 5.994 and € 10.794 (scale 10-11).
Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
10% Employee Benefit Budget
EUR 1,400 development budget per year
Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution
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(Sr.) Crisis Management Expert (Business Resilience Specialist)
Strengthen Rabobank’s crisis management capabilities by enhancing preparedness, coordination and response across the bank. Help protect critical services, support operational resilience, and maintain financial stability during disruptive events and crises.
You & your role
As a (Senior) Crisis Management Expert, you contribute to Rabobank’s preparedness for, response to and recovery from disruptive events or crises. You help develop and maintain crisis management frameworks, procedures and playbooks, support crisis exercises and readiness activities, and advise crisis teams during incidents. By ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations, and by working closely with internal and external stakeholders, you help strengthen resilience, protect critical operations, maintain stakeholder confidence, and support financial stability during disruptive events and crises.
Examples from practice
You act as a trusted expert on crisis readiness, identifying developments that could impact Rabobank and driving initiatives that enhance crisis readiness before disruptions occur.
You drive crisis management training and exercising programmes for senior leaders and crisis teams, strengthening crisis leadership, decision-making and organisational preparedness.
During a major incident or crisis, you support crisis leadership by maintaining situational awareness, coordinating information flows and helping ensure an effective and timely response across the bank.
Facts & figures
36 hours per week
Over 48,000 Rabobank colleagues worldwide.
Top 3 responsibilities
Contribute to the continuous enhancement of Rabobank’s crisis management capability by driving initiatives that strengthen crisis readiness, response and recovery across the bank, taking into account emerging risks, industry developments and best practices across the wider financial sector.
Act as a trusted advisor to crisis leadership during major incidents and crises, providing expert guidance, strategic challenge and actionable insights to support effective decision-making and response coordination.
Strengthen crisis management oversight through reporting, lessons learned, after-action reviews and expert challenge, driving continuous improvement of crisis readiness and response capabilities.
As part of the Crisis Office within Business Resilience, you help drive initiatives that improve crisis readiness, support effective crisis coordination and strengthen decision-making during disruptive events.
Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of differences. By combining people's differences, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you will bring to our team at Business Resilience. “ Collaboration is our way of working; as one expert team within Rabobank.”
The team of Business Resilience help Rabobank anticipate, withstand and recover from disruptions. Collaboration is our way of working; as one expert team within Rabobank. We combine strategic thinking, practical implementation and strong collaboration to help ensure resilience remains embedded in the way Rabobank operates and serves its customers.
Work on yourself & the world around you
For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That is why we want to invest in you and work together to create a better world. We summarize this in one sentence: “at Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you simultaneously.”
This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment and a good work-life balance. You can also contribute to meaningful societal challenges while helping Rabobank fulfil its mission of Growing a better world together.
Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank
At Rabobank, we are working toward a culture where everyone feels welcome. We value our differences and use them to collaborate more effectively and make better decisions. By being open to different perspectives, we are creating an environment where colleagues feel heard and respected.
You & your talent
Academic working and thinking level.
Approximately 7–12 years of relevant professional experience.
Extensive experience in Crisis Management, with knowledge of Business Resilience, Business Continuity Management or related disciplines considered an advantage.
Strong analytical, conceptual and structuring capabilities.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Strong communication skills with fluent English; Dutch preferred.
We recognise that resilience expertise can be built through different career paths. We are particularly interested in professionals who bring experience in one or more of the following areas: Business Resilience, Business Continuity Management, Crisis Management or related disciplines; Strategy development, transformation delivery or organisational change; Governance, organisational steering and management reporting; Technology resilience, IT continuity, disaster recovery or related risk domains; Framework development, regulatory implementation or organisational improvement initiatives.
You & the application process
For substantive questions about this role: Geertje van Es, NL Business Resilience Officer – Crisis Office via geertje.van.es@rabobank.com
Questions about working at Rabobank and the procedure? Milou Stoop, Recruiter FEC via Milou.stoop@rabobank.nl
If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule the interviews.
You can find answers to frequently asked questions here
Assessments can be part of the application process.
A reliability assessment is part of the procedure. We respect your privacy
Rabobank is a cooperative bank with a mission. Our goal: to help customers realize their ambitions. We serve about 10 million customers in 47 countries. As an international financial institution, we work on the well-being and prosperity of millions of people. In the Netherlands, we serve individual and business customers. Globally, we focus on the food and agriculture sectors. For big or small challenges, in every area, people join forces in search of solutions. Rabobank has been doing this for 125 years, and we will continue to grow a better world together.
As an employer, we support the growth of colleagues every day. At Rabobank, you can work on your own development & shape the world around you. This is reflected in your own development budget, our hybrid work environment, and a good balance between your work and home life. You can work on banking matters for our individual and business customers, as well as on societal issues such as food and energy transitions.
