Role: Senior Ethical Trade Executive – GDPR

Ethical Trade & Environmental Sustainability (ET/ES) Operations: We aim to deliver amazing fashion at amazing prices to Primark customers, whilst maintaining the highest levels of rigour, protecting the people who make our products, ensuring social, environmental and structural compliance. We operate as ‘one team’ with the rest of the business.

Purpose of role:

Day-to-day responsibility for analysis, recording and reporting matters ensuring functional compliance with Primark’s Data Protection Programme

Reports to: Head of Central Support

Location: This role will be home based with some travel to Dublin or Reading where required to meet teams

Key Accountabilities:

• Play a key role in the governance and accountability requirements for monitoring and maintaining compliance with our data protection policy and procedures within ET & ES team
• Identify training and awareness needs and work with the Primark Compliance Team to co-ordinate regional requirements
• Develop and issue privacy notices where required for new projects or initiatives with support from Primark Compliance Team
• Ensure operational procedures and guidance remain up to date
• Regularly review notices to make sure that they are accurate, up-to-date and effective
• Manage subject access requests for the function and regularly review systems/business processes in conjunction with Primark Compliance Team to ensure appropriate for volume of requests received
• Review data retention guidelines and ensure they are adhered to in practice within the function
• Participate and support due diligence checks and risk assessments
• Maintain register of third parties for the function
• Identify any new data sharing / processing arrangements
• To provide a secure environment that supports the requirements of Best Practice and the needs of stakeholders
• To assist in the implementation of Company policies and standards on security matters which embrace all areas of information security risk
• Identify, report and escalate risks/ issues with full support from Primark Compliance Team
• Assist in the ongoing monitoring of compliance and any change in risk levels
• Knowledge & Experience:
• Ability to work across different stakeholders
• Proven compliance and management of processes
• Ability to use MS Office suite and the ability to design and develop reports

Personal Attributes

• Solid relationship management skills
• Strong customer service orientation
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Good written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a focus on listening and questioning skills
• Ability to conduct research into issues and products as required
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Keen attention to detail
• Team-oriented and skilled i working within a collaborative environment