About GBG
Enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for genuine people, everywhere.
We make it our mission to ensure more genuine people have digital access to opportunities, and businesses have access to more genuine people. Our technology draws on diverse and reliable data to create a single point of truth for identity and address verification.
With over 30 years of experience behind us our team and technology are focused on enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for everyone. Regardless of age, location or background, genuine people everywhere should be able to digitally prove who they are and where they live.
About the Team
Privacy and Data Compliance Team
The vision for our team is “to enable privacy and data compliance at pace”, This means helping GBG achieve it’s goals, whilst creating demonstrable privacy and data compliance with regulatory and/or licensing obligations. As a fast growing, global business, this team provides a challenging environment with days rarely the same. We continue to promote our key principles to ensure all team members “think privacy” upfront, helping to embed privacy and data compliance into operations.
The Role
Senior Data Protection Executive
You will be responsible for leading a small team and contributing to completing Data Subject Rights (DSR) requests that we receive (under The Data Protection Act 2018)/GDPR and other global privacy laws) along with a variety of other data related requests and enquiries from members of the public and our business customers.
Reporting into the Head of Privacy EU/UK, the role is to manage, co-ordinate and deliver on our smart objectives to ensure that GBG is compliant with applicable legislation, its contractual obligations and provides great service.
What you will do
- Lead and support the Data Protection Executives by co-ordinating delivery on multiple case management activities. You will monitor volumes, provide support on more complex cases/ issues, and provide clear guidance and solutions to enable progress
- Execute delivery on your own DSR case load as part of the overall team workload
- Undertake line management responsibilities and maintain ongoing training and awareness for both direct reports and wider GBG team members to ensure they continue to be aware of what they need to do to be/compliant
- Be a trusted advisor in relation to privacy and data compliance requests, responding to both external and internal requests or questions, ensuring quality and timeliness
- Continually review and enhance internal Data Subject Rights and data enquiry processes to evidence privacy and data compliance and develop operational efficiency
- Nurture high quality relationships with stakeholders and ensure that members of the public have a great experience with GBG
- Produce/develop internal reports, MI and adhoc requests for management to ensure that GBG is adhering to its regulatory requirements and monitors ongoing trends
Skills we’re looking for
- Knowledge and understanding of the requirements of The Data Protection Act 2018 & GDPR in relation to the Rights of Individuals
- Process orientated approach, with the ability to execute accurately and consistently across multiple processes
- People focus and with desire to develop and enable them to be their best
- Confident in making decisions and ensures timely consultation with management where required
- Problem solving skills, puts forwards solutions. Has a drive and determination to establish a full set of facts to support treatment strategies and quality outcomes
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure, to strict deadlines
- Service focused with a continual emphasis to provide excellent results
- Strong interpersonal skills with both external individuals and colleagues, with the ability to persuade and influence others, and experience of managing difficult conversations
- Questioning nature, allowing you to uncover the full picture, which may then enable the correct process elements /responses to be followed with the right outcomes
- Demonstrable evidence you are a quick learner, who can quickly understand complex requirements
Behaviours
- Self-motivated with the ability to lead others, work on own initiative and be a team player
- Plans ahead and works in a systematic and organised way
- Shows evidence of clear thinking
- Applies own expertise effectively
- Communicates and networks effectively
To find out more
As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.
To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we’ll be in touch. You can also find out more about careers at GBG and check out our current opportunities at gbgplc.com/careers.
Unleash your potential and be part of our mission to power safe and rewarding digital lives.