Data Protection Analyst
Responsible to:
Group DPO
Department:
Group Legal
Location:
Role Overview:
Working within the Legal team the Data Protection team works to support all business areas in the UK. The Data Protection Advisor will complete data subject access requests, along with other data requests. Working collaboratively with relevant areas you will investigate data breaches and complaints as well as assisting the business with privacy related queries. You need to be a confident communicator, highly organised and have a clear understanding of Data Protection legislation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be a key part of the team responsible for overall customer contact on data protection related queries
- Coordinate the investigation and resolution of data protection queries and complaints across the JD UK business operations
- Ensure individuals’ data protection rights are satisfied in compliance with data protection laws, including rights to information, of access, to rectification and to erasure
- Ensure that all data is handled in the correct manner when dealing with individuals’ exercising their data protection rights
- Assist the Data Protection Officer and JD Group Legal Team with data protection compliance for the JD Group
- Assist with data protection audits and spot checks to monitor compliance
- Support the business in conducting Data Privacy Impact Assessments
- Assist business areas in maintaining data protection champion relationships, identifying risks and issues
- Ensure the ROPA (Record of Processing activities) is maintained
- Maintain relationships with all JD Group subsidiaries
- Attend data protection training/events to enhance knowledge of data protection laws and practices
Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:
- Well organised with strong attention to detail.
- Good knowledge of UK data protection law
- Experience in handling customer complaints effectively
- Ability to organise and plan your own workload, with an ability to prioritise tasks to be able to meet deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
- Good Microsoft Office skills.
- Able to work individually and as part of a team.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
- Incremental Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
- Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
- Discounted Gym membership
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
- Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
Interested?
If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.
Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion
Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
Thank you again for your time.
What We Do
The Group At A Glance:
Established in 1981 with a single store in Bury, in the North West of England, JD Sports Fashion plc (JD Group) are the leading global multi-channel retailer & distributor of branded and own branded sportswear & fashionwear.
JD Group has a global reach with brands and stores across 19 territories in Europe, North America & Asia Pacific. We are proud to provide our consumers with the latest products from recognised brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face, with strong Own Brand labels such as Pink Soda and Supply & Demand to provide an elevated consumer experience.
JD Group continue to lead the way with successful subsidiaries, including Size?, The Hip Store, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, as well as International Retailers, Sprinter (Spain), Sport Zone as well as JD Finish Line.
Our C:ulture
We inspire our people to reach for higher levels of performance. To achieve these standards, we only recruit the best! All employees are highly skilled, self motivated and in constant pursuit of perfection. Opportunities to progress arise quickly for those people with the right qualities and ambition.
We encourage our people to constantly seek ways to improve our business. This means challenging the way we merchandise, sell and manage the business, being creative and forward thinking in suggesting alternative solutions. Problems are solved and opportunities are seized by people from all levels of the organisation working together.
JD Sports Fashion HQ is situated in Bury, Greater Manchester. JD Sports also have our global Distribution Centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester & its highly decorative Creative Studio in Manchester City Centre
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