Senior Hybrid Data Privacy & Risk Consultant

Howden; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive annual bonus

Life assurance

Income protection

Private medical insurance

25 days leave + 2 days after 5 years

Flexible benefits programme

Job summary

Howden is seeking an experienced Senior Risk & Compliance Consultant / Manager (Data Privacy Consultant / DPO) to work across our Birmingham and Rugby offices with hybrid flexibility. The role is permanent (36.25 hours) with part-time considerations.

You will support a diverse client portfolio, performing proactive privacy advisory work and reactive support for data breaches and DSRs. A strong communicator will explain privacy risks clearly to stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications

• Hands-on privacy advisory and reactive data breach support in multi-client environment.
• Ability to tailor privacy advice to different business models and regulatory contexts.
• Experience handling data breaches and data subject rights requests (DSRs).
• Experience assessing AI and automated processing of personal data.
• Ability to conduct third-party privacy risk assessments.
• Strong written outputs: audit and assessment reports.
• Experience delivering privacy training and awareness sessions.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Broad business understanding to align privacy with operations.
• Experience across regulated and non-regulated sectors.

Responsibilities

• Support multiple client engagements across sectors in a busy consulting environment.
• Proactively assess and improve clients' data protection and privacy posture through DPIAs, audits, risk assessments.
• Advise on privacy implications of AI and automated decision-making.
• Conduct third-party privacy assessments and due diligence.
• Produce clear audit and assessment reports with prioritized recommendations.
• Provide calm, pragmatic advice during data breaches and incident response.
• Deliver privacy education and training for various audiences.
• Act as trusted advisor balancing regulatory requirements with business objectives.
• Collaborate with legal, information security, and business teams to embed privacy.
• Maintain awareness of GDPR/UK GDPR and other guidance.
• Manage a small team of consultants.

Skills

Privacy advisory

Data privacy

Incident response

DPIAs

Audits

Policy development

AI privacy

Third-party assessments

Training delivery

Stakeholder communication

Team management

Job description

Howden is seeking an experienced Senior Risk & Compliance Consultant / Manager (Data Privacy Consultant / DPO) to work across our Birmingham and Rugby offices with hybrid flexibility. The role is permanent (36.25 hours) with part-time considerations.

You will support a diverse client portfolio, performing proactive privacy advisory work and reactive support for data breaches and DSRs. A strong communicator will explain privacy risks clearly to stakeholders at all levels.