Taylor Root is pleased to be working with a well-known retail and consumer goods business to help them recruit a Lead Privacy Counsel.

Reporting to the Group Deputy General Counsel, you will have a broad range of responsibilities supporting a number of business units in the continual development of their data protection frameworks. You will also have significant international exposure and will advise on privacy challenges in multiple jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the business to implement their data protection initiatives, which will include running cadence calls and being responsible for allocated business units.
• Provide timely, accurate, quality legal advice on all aspects of data protection to various business units based in the UK and Ireland.
• Assess and advise on compliance gaps; advise on incidents and data breaches, data subject access requests and data retention; review data...