Location: Hybrid with National Travel when RequiredThe Company Village Hotels is a UK-based hotel brand with soon-to-be 34 sites. We uniquely offer a mid-market hotel, a fitness club, and food and beverage options, including a Starbucks coffee retail unit, all under one roof. Our unique concept makes us very successful, often leading the market in revenue and currently growing with several new hotels and extensions planned for 2025.The Role As our Data Protection and Compliance Assistant, you'll be a key member of the Legal Team, supporting the organisation's adherence to all relevant data privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You'll work closely with the General Counsel and Compliance Officer, as well as various hotel and central support teams, to manage day-to-day data protection requests and incidents. This is a crucial role in ensuring the privacy and security of our guests' and employees' information.Key Responsibilities● Manage Data Subject Requests: You will handle all data subject requests (access, rectification, erasure, and "right to be forgotten"). This includes tracking requests from start to finish, ensuring timely completion and compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws.● Process Law Enforcement Requests: You'll manage and track Data Access requests from law enforcement agencies, such as the police, ensuring legitimate requests are fulfilled according to legal protocols.● Manage Security Breaches: You'll track and manage reported security breaches from internal teams or external customers, promptly escalating incidents to the General Counsel and Compliance Officer for mitigation and prevention.● Liaise and Collaborate: You'll build and maintain strong relationships with all hotel departments, central support teams, and senior management to coordinate responses, gather information, and ensure a unified approach to data protection.● Support Licensing Compliance: With the support of the General Counsel, you'll assist in managing licensing across the portfolio, including premises, marriage, copyright, and PRS/PPL licensing.● Manage Legal Invoicing: You'll be responsible for managing the in-house legal invoicing process.Person Specification● A working knowledge of data protection law and practices is essential.● Methodical and organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects concurrently.● Excellent written and oral communication skills.● Able to multi-task and work independently with minimal supervision to meet deadlines.● Flexible, proactive, quick to learn, and possessing a can-do attitude.Work, Grow, Play! Here at Village Hotels, we're all about embracing personality, individualism, and fun. Forget stuffy hotels built on formality; we create lively, modern spaces for our guests to work, eat, relax, play, and exercise. We have hotels and leisure clubs from Aberdeen to Bournemouth and more opening soon. We rely on you to deliver service that puts us head and shoulders above the competition.Join us and we can offer you amazing benefits*, such as:● Complimentary Health and Wellness Membership at your home club for you and a family member/friend, worth £1,500 a year.● Significant discounts on hotel stays and food & drink at all our locations.● Excellent training and development programs, including our Rising Stars and Talent Academy.● A fun, supportive, and inclusive work environment with regular team events.● Excellent Reward and Recognition incentive schemes.● Have your birthday off, guaranteed.● Electric car salary sacrifice scheme.● Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits and pay.● Financial wellbeing support, including salary drawdown via Wagestream.● Access to our Employee Assistance Programme and up to 2 mental health days annually.*T&C’s apply based on your contract.About Company: Work, Grow, Play! Here at Village Hotel Club we are all about embracing personality, individualism and fun. Forget stuffy hotels built around formality, pomp and ceremony. We create lively, modern spaces for our guests to work, eat, relax, play and exercise. With hotels and leisure clubs Aberdeen to Bournemouth and more opening soon, we rely on you to deliver service that puts us head and shoulders above the competition. Join us and we can offer you benefits* such as… - Complimentary Health and Wellness Membership at your home Club for you and a family member/ friend worth £1,500 a year. - Discount on all overnight stays at Village Hotels, meaning you can experience our hospitality from £35 with a friend and even grab an excellent breakfast. - Friends and Family discounted stays from £49 including breakfast - 50% discount on Food and Drink purchased on or off shift at any Village Hotel Pub & Grill - 30% discount on and off shift in our Village Hotel Starbucks stores - Excellent training and development including our Rising Stars and Talent Academy programmes - A much more exciting way to train across several areas in the hotels, utilising our exciting Mobile Gaming training platform. - Discounts and cashback offers on many High Street Brands and Supermarkets. - A range of Well-being and Healthcare benefits and monthly well-being programmes for all employees to support your mental health - Putting your Mental Wellbeing first with Mental Health first aiders and up to 2 mental health days to utilise annually. - Financial wellbeing support and salary drawdown via Wagestream - Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering support and counselling - Flexible working hours - A fun, supportive and inclusive work environment with regular team events - Excellent Reward and Recognition Incentive schemes - Anniversary rewards for key milestones of service - Electric car salary sacrifice scheme - Have your birthday off guaranteed - Discounted Health Cash plan and Sick pay Insurance. - A host of BIG People Days to celebrate, reward and recognise our wonderful employees and their local communities. - Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits and pay - Company Pension scheme - Life Insurance *T&C’s apply based on your contract
