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About the Role
As a Senior Privacy Counsel, you will provide senior legal support for data privacy matters across Entain's multi-jurisdictional operations. You will collaborate with various teams to strengthen governance, risk management, and leadership reporting, ensuring privacy risks and regulatory obligations are effectively managed.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior legal oversight and support concerning the Group's data protection obligations across relevant jurisdictions, including supporting DPO activities and engagement with data protection authorities.
- Oversee, maintain, and support improvements to the Group's data protection framework, including Records of Processing Activities, DPIAs, risk assessments, data subject rights processes, and breach management procedures.
- Oversee the investigation, risk assessment, and resolution of complex privacy complaints, data incidents, and data subject rights matters, providing senior guidance on remediation, risk acceptance, and regulatory notification requirements.
- Oversee all regulatory correspondence, enquiries, and examinations to resolution.
- Advise on complex data disclosures, regulatory information-sharing requests, law enforcement requests, fraud prevention initiatives, and other high-risk data sharing arrangements.
- Contribute to privacy governance, risk management, and executive reporting, ensuring key privacy risks, regulatory developments, and remediation activities are effectively escalated and communicated.
- Collaborate with the Privacy Operations team to partner with Product, Technology, and Data teams to embed privacy by design principles into product development, data management workstreams, and AI initiatives.
- Advise on privacy and data protection aspects of AI and other emerging technologies across relevant jurisdictions, including the EU AI Act and applicable UK regulatory requirements.
- Support and develop privacy intake, triage, escalation, and decision-making processes.
- Advise on data governance, information management, data minimisation, retention, and deletion strategies.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across the Privacy function.
Requirements
- England & Wales-qualified lawyer with significant post-qualification experience and demonstrated senior experience in data protection and privacy.
- Ability to synthesize risk accurately and provide clear, actionable opinions, balancing regulatory compliance with commercial outcomes.
- Experience managing relationships with data protection authorities and other regulators.
- Demonstrated experience advising on data privacy and data protection matters across multiple jurisdictions.
- Ability to identify and navigate differences between local regulatory regimes.
- Deep, applied knowledge of GDPR, including DPIAs, DSARs, breach management, international data transfers, and lawful basis analysis.
- Ability to engage with technical teams on AI, data architecture, and digital product development.
- Familiarity with the EU AI Act and emerging AI regulatory frameworks.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to non-specialist audiences.
Skills
- Data protection
- Privacy
- GDPR
- DPIAs
- DSARs
- Breach management
- International data transfers
- Lawful basis analysis
- AI
- Data architecture
- Digital product development
- EU AI Act
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk management
- Governance
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Significant post-qualification experience
Education Level
- England & Wales-qualified lawyer
Benefits
- Pension contribution matched at up to 6%
- 25 days annual leave and all Bank Holidays
- Extra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days
- Life assurance
- Income Protection
- Private healthcare
- Wellbeing support
About the Company
- Entain is a leading, global sports betting and gaming company with iconic brands including Ladbrokes, Coral, BetMGM, Eurobet and bwin.
- We are a FTSE company focused on increasing player safety and driving performance.
Equal Opportunity
- We're committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and able to be themselves.
- We're an equal opportunities employer.
- We welcome applications from everyone and we do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage/civil partnership, or any other basis.
- We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.