Data Protection Analyst

Team – Compliance - UK

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week. 

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Extensive data protection expertise
• Proven privacy risk management
• Strong regulatory judgement

What this role is all about

Join Vitality as a Data Protection Analyst and play an important role in how we protect data across the Group. You’ll manage data protection incidents, advise teams on complex privacy matters and support issues that can extend across our global businesses. Working closely with the Group Head of Data Protection, you’ll provide practical guidance that protects our customers and people while enabling the business to move forward confidently.

What you will be doing

• Provide authoritative data protection advice and challenge across the business, translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, practical and proportionate solutions
• Lead data protection health checks and audits across business areas, evaluating compliance, identifying material risks and driving appropriate remediation and escalation
• Oversee the management of data protection incidents, ensuring breaches are effectively assessed, investigated, remediated and escalated in line with Group requirements
• Take ownership of Data Subject Rights requests across the Vitality Group, ensuring complex cases are managed effectively and regulatory obligations are consistently met
• Assess data protection risks arising from new business activities, projects and strategic initiatives, including Privacy Impact Assessments and the development of appropriate mitigating controls
• Influence stakeholders across the business to embed strong data protection practices and ensure privacy considerations are built into operational and strategic decision-making
• Drive the continued development and improvement of Vitality’s data protection framework, strengthening policies, processes, controls and standards in line with regulatory expectations and business needs
• Develop and deliver effective data protection training and guidance, strengthening understanding and accountability for privacy across the organisation
• Produce meaningful privacy reporting and root cause analysis, identifying trends, emerging risks and areas requiring further action or senior escalation 

What do you need to thrive?

• Extensive working knowledge of UK and EU GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018
• Strong practical experience managing and resolving data protection breaches and incidents
• Proven experience managing Data Subject Rights requests, including complex or technically challenging cases
• Confidence interpreting regulatory requirements and resolving complex data protection queries
• Strong judgement and problem-solving capability within a complex organisation
• Proven ability to influence, advise and constructively challenge stakeholders across different levels of a business
• Ability to assess privacy risk and develop pragmatic solutions that balance compliance, commercial considerations and customer experience
• Experience within regulatory, operational or conduct risk in an FCA or PRA-regulated financial services environment and knowledge of the wider European and global privacy environment would be advantageous

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
• Be there for you when you need us
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.