Data Protection Officer

What we can offer

• Flexible recruitment process to suit your need
• Excellent salary ( welcome open conversations )
• Referral Scheme – earn up to £1000 for referring a friend to work here
• Employee welfare support with free access to our Mental Health Employee Assistance programme, available 24 hours/365 days’ year
• Length of Service and monthly recognition awards
• Opportunities for career development and progression
• Access to professionally recognised qualifications with the Chartered Institute of Insurance.
• Enhanced maternity / paternity pay

Who we are :

We’re Policy Expert, a Personal Lines insurance provider and we’re on a mission to shake up the personal insurance industry. We feel that insurers have under-served customers for too long with confusing policies, expensive renewals, and frustrating claims processes. It is time to put customers first!

Since we formed in 2011, we’ve been using breakthrough thinking and proprietary tech to provide insurance that’s clear, fair and great value. And people like what we do. So much so that we now have well over one million customers, driven by our double-digit growth. We also take great pride in having been the UK’s No.1-rated home insurance provider for 9 years.

We have big aspirations. Our ‘North Star’ is ‘To be the most successful insurance disruptor people want to stay with for life’. As we grow, we plan on continuing to challenge the norms of an insurance industry whose reputation for customer trust is low, where switching between providers is high and insurance cover is often seen as a costly ‘grudge purchase’.

We aim to build longer and deeper relationships with our customers and to help them see insurance as being a help, not a hindrance.

The role and what youll be doing :

We’re committed to ensuring that our customers’ data is protected and that our work complies with Data Protection legislation. We’re seeking a Data Protection Officer to help our management of potentially sensitive information, conduct regular internal security audits, and serve as the main point of contact between the business and Data Protection authorities.

You will monitor internal compliance, inform, and advise on our Data Protection obligations, provide advice regarding Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and act as a contact point for data subjects and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

We’re committed to ensuring that our customers’ data is protected and that our work complies with Data Protection legislation. We’re seeking a Data Protection Officer to help our management of potentially sensitive information, conduct regular internal security audits, and serve as the main point of contact between the business and Data Protection authorities.

You will monitor internal compliance, inform, and advise on our Data Protection obligations, provide advice regarding Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and act as a contact point for data subjects and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Key Responsibilities: -

· Provide expert advice and educate our colleagues on important data compliance requirements.

· Identify and evaluate the data processing activities within the business.

· Collaborate with key stakeholders to draft new and amend existing internal Data Protection policies, guidelines, and procedures.

· Implementing measures and a privacy governance framework to manage data use in compliance with the GDPR, including developing templates for data collection, assisting with data mapping, and vendor management reviews.

· Conduct audits to ensure compliance and to address potential issues.

· Maintain records of all data processing activities of the company

· Serve as point of contact for Data Protection authorities.

· Monitor our ongoing ability to remain data compliant.

· Monitor data management procedures and compliance within the business.

· Participate in meetings with managers to ensure privacy by design at all levels.

· Maintain records of processing operations.

· Ensure we address all queries from data subjects within legal timeframes (e.g. delete their information from our databases).

· Liaise with other organisations that process data on our behalf.

· Advise and consult with senior leaders on data security laws.

· Offer consultation on how to deal with privacy breaches.

· Arrange for training on GDPR compliance for colleagues.

· Follow up with changes in law and issue recommendations to ensure compliance.

Our Business Values:

We're Innovative - we seek out new ideas and ways that make a significant difference - to our people, our customers and our business. We're curious, creative and open minded.

We're Dynamic - We're proactive, ambitious and agile. We're non-bureaucratic but remain fully compliant with legislation and regulation.

We're Collaborative - We recognise and acknowledge everyone's strengths and we respect other's views. We collaborate freely and foster a phenomenal team spirit.

We're Supportive - We care about our people. We have a positive working environment where constructive challenge is encouraged. We support our customers with fairness and honesty to build lasting relationships.

We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit purely based on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our people backs this up. We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process. Please contact us to request an accommodation on careers@policyexpert.co.uk

Interested in joining an award winning and innovative company? Apply now for a chat with one of the team here!

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Starting from £40,000

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person