Data Protection Manager - Insurance
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Location
Oxfordshire
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Discipline:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£55,000 - £65,000
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Consultant:
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Email:
kburn@merje.com
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Job ref:
KBU/14598
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Published:
over 2 years ago
A newly created strategic Group role to provide policy, procedures, guidance and oversight for this Group of successful companies on all aspects of Data Protection.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement a strategy for Data Protection legislation adherence – including oversight and testing of data protection and information security controls and processes
- Ensure procedures and processes adopted by the business comply with legal and regulatory requirements, optimise business objectives and minimise business risk
- Manage and maintain an effective Data Protection framework including oversight and monitoring
- Continuously assess and provide assurance on the regulatory risk for the Group and identify and implement appropriate mitigating factors
- Oversight of the Subject Access Request process and quality control procedures
- Responding to regulators with appropriate quality and standard and within mandated reporting schedules
- Analyse, manage and monitor DP risks
- Ensure appropriate risk reporting and escalation processes are in place for all DP related matters within the business
- Identify solutions to resolve potential regulatory barriers to commercial objectives
- Build and manage key stakeholder relationships
- Oversee the SAR process
Key Competencies:
- Possess sound technical understanding of data protection laws and regulations and be the sole source of technical expertise on DP reporting to the Group Compliance Officer
- Understand GDPR and provide relevant guidance about its impact
- Significant experience of Data Protection within the financial services industry
- Holder of ISEB certification or relevant professional DP qualification
- Good level of risk management risk mitigation
- Good understanding of IT processing and systems
- Keep ahead of legislation, professional and technical change understanding implications and shares this effectively with others
- Be able to provide clear, pragmatic advice
- Able to effectively assess priorities and deadlines
- Strong influencing skills, especially at executive level
- Comfortable working as a change agent at all levels
- Good communication and negotiation skills coupled with the ability to build successful relationships
- Commercial acumen
- Decisive, resilient, detail focused and professional