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Senior Legal Counsel - Data Privacy & Compliance

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Whitbread Inns

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United Kingdom , Dunstable

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Salary:

90000.00 - 95000.00 GBP / Year

Job Description:

Are you a proactive, solutions‑driven lawyer with a passion for data protection, emerging tech, and building best‑in‑class compliance frameworks? Do you bring positive energy, high ownership, and the ambition to shape the future of legal governance in a complex, consumer‑focused organisation? If you’re ready to take the lead on data privacy and wider compliance at one of the UK’s most recognisable hospitality groups, this is a rare and exciting opportunity to make a significant impact from day one.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead on UK data protection compliance, advising across Whitbread’s end‑to‑end consumer and employee data lifecycle
  • Develop, maintain and embed group‑wide policies, procedures and data governance frameworks
  • Manage and optimise our relationship with the UK’s outsourced DPO
  • Provide best‑practice guidance to operations in Ireland, Germany and China
  • Deliver DPIAs, ROPAs, DSAR handling, and data‑related litigation management
  • Advise on CRM, digital marketing, cookies, and marketing consent
  • Draft and negotiate data processing/sharing agreements
  • Guide IT teams to ensure privacy is embedded from the very beginning of any change or initiative
  • Own and evolve a broad compliance portfolio, including: Code of Conduct governance and communication
  • Competition law risk and training
  • Anti‑bribery & corruption framework and controls
  • AI governance, supporting policy development and advising stakeholders on emerging regulation
  • Supporting the Legal Director with compliance reports for the Audit & Risk Committee and ongoing risk reviews

Requirements:

  • Qualified lawyer, 5+ PQE
  • Deep expertise in UK data protection law (EU desirable)
  • Experience handling large volumes of consumer and/or employee data (B2C essential)
  • Strong policy‑writing skills — capable of building frameworks from scratch and owning them
  • Experience in drafting and implementing procedures, controls and compliance programmes
  • Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders and influencing across the business
  • Ability to operate with a high level of autonomy and enthusiasm
  • Private‑practice background welcome
  • in‑house experience is a bonus, not a requirement
  • Positive, energetic and proactive
  • Pragmatic, commercially minded and solutions‑focused
  • Ready to “pick things up”, create structure, and drive change
  • Excited by the challenge of being the go‑to person for data protection and compliance in a major consumer brand

Nice to have:

in‑house experience

What we offer:
  • bonus
  • 10% matched pension
  • health care

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 10, 2026

Expiration:
January 26, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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