Senior Data Privacy & Protection Lead (Hybrid)

Domestic & General; Bedworth; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual discretionary bonus

Health cash plan

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Employee savings portal

Cycle to work

Employee discounts

Job summary

Domestic & General is seeking a Senior Data Protection Manager to lead the privacy and data protection programme from our Risk & Compliance team. The role oversees regulatory compliance with UK GDPR, EU GDPR, and PECR across the organisation and coordinates with internal teams and external partners.

You will drive DPIAs, DSars, incident management and privacy by design across projects, helping to safeguard customer data and maintain governance standards.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of UK GDPR, EU GDPR, DPA 2018 and PECR.
• Experience managing privacy operations including DPIAs, DSRs and incidents.
• Ability to translate complex privacy requirements into actionable controls.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Professional data protection qualification (CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day delivery of privacy operations, ensuring records, DPIAs, LIAs, DSRs and incidents progress to standards.
• Own the quality and consistency of privacy processes, templates, records and reporting inputs.
• Provide senior risk-based advice to business teams on projects, suppliers, contracts and transfers.
• Lead privacy risk assessment activities and escalate material risks to the GDPO.
• Prepare and present MI, KRIs and compliance insights for governance oversight.
• Support the GDPO in regulatory inquiries and external engagements with coordination and responses.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and QA to analysts and privacy supports.

Skills

Privacy laws

Privacy ops

Regulatory advisory

Stakeholder mgmt

CIPP/E/CIPM optional

Job description

Domestic & General is seeking a Senior Data Protection Manager to lead the privacy and data protection programme from our Risk & Compliance team. The role oversees regulatory compliance with UK GDPR, EU GDPR, and PECR across the organisation and coordinates with internal teams and external partners.

You will drive DPIAs, DSars, incident management and privacy by design across projects, helping to safeguard customer data and maintain governance standards.