Privacy Analyst

About the Role

Location: London (Hybrid)

Our client is seeking a Privacy Analyst to support the delivery of data protection and privacy compliance across an international organisation. The successful candidate will work with a range of business functions to help ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws, support privacy governance activities, and promote best practices across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and support the organisation's privacy governance framework, including records of processing activities and data inventories.
• Assist with privacy risk assessments, including Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs), and other compliance reviews where required.
• Coordinate the handling of Data Subject Rights requests, ensuring timely responses and accurate record-keeping.
• Support data retention and deletion initiatives in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Provide day-to-day guidance to internal stakeholders on data protection and privacy-related matters.
• Assist in the development, review and maintenance of privacy policies, procedures and guidance materials.
• Work collaboratively with teams across legal, compliance, technology, information security, HR and other business functions to embed privacy by design.
• Support investigations into privacy incidents and assist with remediation activities and reporting where appropriate.
• Contribute to privacy awareness initiatives, including the delivery of training and communications.
• Monitor developments in privacy legislation and regulatory guidance, supporting the implementation of changes where required.
• Assist with broader governance, compliance and risk management projects as needed.

About You

• Previous experience in a privacy, data protection or compliance role.
• Good understanding of UK GDPR, EU GDPR and general data protection principles.
• Experience supporting privacy processes, including records of processing, DPIAs, data subject rights requests and retention programmes.
• Familiarity with privacy management tools (such as OneTrust or similar platforms) would be beneficial.
• Professional privacy certification (e.g. CIPP/E, CIPM or equivalent) is desirable but not essential.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident communicator with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across different business functions.
• Proactive, collaborative and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications; experience with collaboration and project management tools is advantageous.
• Fluent English is required. Additional language skills are beneficial.

Please note: Sponsorship is not available for this position.