Data Protection Manager

Time left to apply: End Date: January 20, 2025 (8 days left to apply)

Job requisition id: R-025835

Job Title

Data Protection Manager

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Fixed Term

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Compliance/Audit

Closing Date

19 January 2025

“Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. As such, we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business, and our belief in the empowerment of the individual mean opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“Everything you'll love.”

• Hybrid and flexible working – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda has it on point.
• Discretionary bonus – rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – looking forward to the future.
• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – making sure you take time for yourself.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares about the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people.
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George – with extra discounts running throughout the year.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes – we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours.

Plus, much more!

“That's more like it.”

This is a 12-month fixed term contract.

“Find your role”

Are you looking for an exciting role supporting an ever-changing business to get data protection right? Can you help bring data protection concepts to life and explain how data protection principles work in reality?

We have an exciting new role for an experienced data protection professional to join the Asda Data Protection Operations team in our award-winning Legal and Compliance Function. This role will manage the data protection operations processes including information requests, incident response, and regulator contacts. This is a fixed term role covering a 12-month period to cover maternity leave.

Working within a dynamic and supportive team, you will:

• Business partner with areas to provide risk-based data protection advice and training to enable data protection by design.
• Complete Data Protection Risk Assessments and manage Records of Processing Activities for specified areas.
• Create and manage Data Protection related policies, standards, procedures, and Privacy Notices.
• Liaise with Asda’s Cyber Security and Data Governance teams to support aligned ways of working across risk assessment processes, policies, standards, and training.
• Oversee the data subject rights process, addressing escalations and providing advice.
• Manage incident response process including maintaining records.
• Manage regulatory contacts process including responding to inquiries and referred data subject complaints.
• Manage a data protection coordinator who administers data protection operations processes.

“Let's find out about you.”

• Holds a degree level education in a relevant subject, or equivalent level of experience.
• Has an expert level of understanding of relevant UK Data Protection Laws and previous experience working in a data protection role.
• Holds a recognised data protection certification e.g. CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT.
• Preferably has previous experience of working with data protection management software.
• Attention to detail and the ability to work well as a team player.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-moving, dynamic business.
• The willingness to offer ideas and solutions to the ever-changing needs of the team and business.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage your own diary effectively.
• Great interpersonal skills and willingness to reach out to cross-functional colleagues.

“Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

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Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose where you’ll be the most effective.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• £5,700 company car or car allowance
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking, and many additional rewards.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.

About us

Asda is Reimagining Retail. It’s hard for anyone to imagine how many different career possibilities there are at Asda. Ours is a big business, and beyond the roles you might be familiar with, there are hundreds more you don’t often get to see. In fact, because our business is changing, we're creating new roles all the time! So take the time to look around. Once you’ve had the chance to explore our current open positions, apply to the ones you feel suit you best.