The Senior Legal Counsel is an integral part of our dynamic legal department, providing strategic legal advice and support across a range of operational matters, ensuring compliance with regulations, mitigating risks, and enabling the organisation to achieve its business objectives. This position reports directly to the Associate General Counsel, who leads the Operational Legal Services team, and will collaborate closely with various internal stakeholders to deliver legal solutions that drive operational excellence.

The Role:

• Responsibility for MU’s compliance with all applicable data protection laws (including UK and EU GDPR)
• Advising on contractual relationships where MU is appointing data processors (on-shore, EU based and outside EU)
• Responsibility for data protection policies, audits and training
• Maintaining MU’s data map and ensuring best practice in all elements of MU’s use of personal data
• Management of all data subject rights processes (e.g. SARs, deletions etc.)
• Statutory liaison with ICO (e.g. data breaches, data subject rights etc.)