Virgin Media O2
Tesco Mobile - Data Privacy Counsel
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Summary
Location
- Manchester
- Slough
- Welwyn Garden City
Job Type
- Full Time
Posted Date
- 18-Sep-2026
Ref
- 75417
As Data Privacy Counsel, you’ll play a pivotal role in protecting the privacy rights of Tesco Mobile customers and colleagues while enabling the business to achieve its strategic ambitions. Acting as our Data Protection Officer (DPO), you’ll be the trusted expert for all things privacy, providing commercially focused legal guidance, shaping our approach to data protection, and ensuring compliance in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
This is a high-impact role where you’ll work across a wide range of business areas, influencing decision-making at all levels and helping to embed privacy by design into everything we do. You’ll lead on complex privacy matters, regulatory engagement, incident management and governance activity, while also driving key projects, developing privacy capability across the business, and supporting emerging areas such as AI governance.
Who we are
Tesco Mobile is a totally unique business, a 50/50 joint venture between VMO2 and Tesco that launched back in 2003 and has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services, markets and customer propositions.
Tesco Mobile has more than 5 million customers and is award-winning, instilling agile methodologies and cultivating a fantastic can-do attitude across its teams. We're always on the lookout for the best talent, be that from our two shareholders or the wider industry.
Working at Tesco Mobile means being employed by one of our joint venture shareholders – Virgin Media O2 or Tesco Mobile, our Head Office vacancies are advertised under both brands. Our culture is uniquely Tesco Mobile with a great sense of community, but with all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders as well. We pride ourselves on being a company where everyone’s welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. We not only celebrate diversity but recognise the value and opportunity it brings in helping us to care for human connection – we are supermarket mobile!
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The must haves
In order to be considered, you must have the following experience;
- Qualified lawyer with at least five years’ privacy law experience
- Expert knowledge of data protection and privacy legislation including GDPR, PECR and DUAA
- Proven ability to provide practical, risk-based privacy advice in a commercial environment
- Experience leading significant privacy projects and engaging with senior stakeholders and governance forums
- Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to work independently and act as a trusted advisor
The other stuff we are looking for
We'd also love you to bring;
- Experience working within a technology, telecommunications or digital business
- Experience operating in a regulated environment
- Strong understanding of privacy risk and data processing activities
- Experience developing privacy guidance, training and awareness programmes
- Knowledge of AI governance principles and their interaction with data privacy
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What's in it for you
Our goal is to celebrate our people, their lives and everything in-between. We aim to create a culture that empowers everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work each and every day. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world.
Working at Tesco Mobile means you get a bumper reward package bursting with benefits, and loads of extras you can add if you’d like to. These are designed to support both you and your loved ones, making sure that you’re covered no matter what life throws your way.
We're all about hybrid working here, so expect to have a base location where you'll have the right facilities to enable amazing collaboration and quality time with your team, alongside all the right kit to work from home too.
Next steps
If we feel like a place where you can belong, we'd love to learn more about you as a person and your experience to date.
Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert, therefore we may bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible. If you’re offered a job with us, it will be conditional, based on the passing of background checks. All roles require a criminal record check and some roles need a financial probity check. Your recruiter can provide you with more information if needed.
Thanks for your patience and for showing an interest in joining the Tesco Mobile family.
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