Vaillant Group UK
Legal Counsel - Compliance (Data Protection)
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Company: Vaillant Holding Ltd.
Location: Belper-GBR
Country: United Kingdom (GB)
Brand: Vaillant
Contract type: Permanent
Working time: Part-time
What We Achieve Together
You will act as the trusted legal advisor on all areas of UK data protection law, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and internal policies while supporting the business through audits, governance activities, and best practice initiatives.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing data subject requests
- Maintaining the UK Record of Processing Activities
- Overseeing Privacy Impact Assessments
- Supporting creation, update, and maintenance of privacy notices
- Overseeing Legitimate Interest Assessments and Privacy Impact Assessments
- Advising and supporting on international data transfers
- Acting as the primary point of contact with the Information Commissioner's Office
- Advising on the compliant implementation of new systems, technologies, and business initiatives (including AI), ensuring that data protection requirements are considered from the earliest stages of project development
- Providing comprehensive legal support on a wide variety of commercial contracts, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating customer and supplier agreements, software licenses, service agreements, and distribution contracts
As part of the Legal & Compliance team, you will:
- Help drive compliance programs and awareness across areas such as anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, antitrust, and artificial intelligence governance
- Engage with relevant regulatory authorities when required
- Develop and deliver engaging training programs to raise awareness of legal and compliance obligations and help build a culture of integrity across the business
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What Makes Us Successful Together
You are a qualified Solicitor with post-qualification experience and have developed a strong foundation in commercial law within a reputable law firm or in-house legal environment.
You have:
- Practical experience advising on UK data protection matters, including interaction with the Information Commissioner's Office and management of data protection compliance activities, including AI risks and mitigations
- Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills with the ability to provide clear, pragmatic legal advice to a wide range of stakeholders across the business
- Experience supporting wider compliance programs, regulatory matters, or technology-related projects, particularly within a commercially focused organization
You are:
- Highly organized, professional, and self-motivated
- Confident in managing competing priorities
- Possess the interpersonal skills to build strong relationships across all levels of the organization
What You Can Count On
We offer our employees an attractive remuneration package, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and bonus opportunities.
We are in the 7% of UK businesses that have received the gold award from Investors in People (IIP).
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Our onsite Bistro and Coffee Bar provide comfortable seating, healthy subsidized meal options, and refreshments during the day.
We pride ourselves on our Family Friendly Policies, designed to support our employees during important life events.
We offer a generous pension scheme, which enables our employees to have greater financial security when they do retire.
For our employee’s peace of mind, we provide a death in service benefit and the option of subsidized private health care.
What Makes Us Special
We take care of a better climate. In every home and our environment. As a successful family business, we have been living up to this claim for over 150 years. We are one of the world's leading providers of heat pumps, digital services, and efficient gas heating appliances and offer energy-saving solutions.
You will find sustainability everywhere at the Vaillant Group. In the office, at the production sites, and on the road. Around 16,000 employees from over 70 countries are committed to this every day. As an international team, we take responsibility - for our future and that of our planet. We promote your personal development so that you can act with passion and together we can ensure a better climate.
Become part of the Vaillant Group and help us shape the future of heating!
We promote equity and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. We value the uniqueness of each individual and encourage all people to apply.
Your Contact:
Amanda Smith
+44 7734 985 093
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