GDPR Business Partner – Railway Jobs Near Me In Wellingborough

Overview

Position Title: GDPR Business Partner

Company: East Midlands Railway

Location: Wellingborough, UK

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity to join #TeamEMR as GDPR Business Partner, supporting the delivery and enablement of company GDPR Vision and Strategy and other key business initiatives. Reporting to the GDPR & Business Continuity Manager, you will work closely with EMR and Abellio stakeholders to gain an understanding of business requirements, and document key data protection processes to ensure EMR adhere to GDPR legislation across all functions of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the data protection teams across our holding group through periodic meetings to share best practice and improve assurance and governance.
• Attend Data Protection forums led by the Rail Delivery Group to understand the latest events which are affecting data security across the rail industry.
• Reach out to the Project Management team to provide advice and training on completing and continuous updating of Data Protection Impact Assessments.
• Liaise with Departmental GDPR leads and process activity owners to ensure data within the Information Management System is maintained, and data maps are updated regularly by the data owners for each business function.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders across all departments to support the management of all personal data registers to ensure they are accurate and up to date
• Forge a network across all business functions to raise GDPR awareness across the business, and support customer facing business functions to achieve compliance through delivery of GDPR Training.
• Collaborate with the IT Information Security team to maintain appropriate governance between data security and GDPR.
• Support data breach investigations, offering guidance when notified of a breach and escalating as appropriate to senior management.
• Contribute to the development and review of policies, procedures, and guidance to ensure information assets are adequately protected, and information is managed in accordance with relevant legislation.
• Maintain the Information Management System to ensure all data subject rights requests and data breaches are correctly logged and be first point of contact/support for Data Protection Assistants to ensure all requests are managed appropriately and responded to within the correct timeframes.
• Deputise for the GDPR and Business Continuity Manager as required, this will include annual leave.
• Support the GDPR and Business Continuity Manager with wider priorities and projects, as and when required.

Requirements:

• Recognised GDPR related qualification or demonstrable knowledge of applying data protection principles is favourable to being successful in this role.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to develop and present reports for supporting and covering the GDPR & Business Continuity Manager as required.
• Effective stakeholders management at all levels with a desire to build effective working relationships.
• Good organisation and time management is essential, with strong analytical skills and an ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent IT skills with experience of using Microsoft 365, in particular SharePoint and Teams are key to being successful in this role. Proficiency MS Visio (Data Mapping Tool) would be a bonus.
• Experience of delivering training to support GDPR awareness with persuading and influencing skills is desirable.