GRC Analyst - Data Protection
| Posting date: | 27 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £45,000.0 to £50,000.0 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Up to £50k |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 April 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 1JP |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4784271_1774628231 |
Summary
GRC Analyst - Data Protection & GDPR Compliance
Fixed Term Contract, 12 months - £45k - £50k
Location: Hybrid - Birmingham
Your new company:
I am looking to recruit a GRC Analyst, focusing on Data Protection and GDPR, to join a leader in the hospitality space, with the role focusing on GRC activities, with a strong focus on information security, privacy, and regulatory assurance across the organisation.
The role responsibilities:
This role focusses on data protection assurance and GDPR compliance, ensuring personal data is processed lawfully, and in line with regulatory and organisational requirements. Key parts of the role:
- Reviewing how personal data is used across systems, business processes, and technology solutions.
- Identifying opportunities to reduce, anonymise, or eliminate personal data processing where it is not essential to business needs.
- Support the review, development, and rollout of information security and data protection policies.
- Contribute to the management of information security, third party, and privacy risk registers.
- Assist with internal and external audits, including GDPR assurance, PCI DSS, and financial audits.
- Track remediation of identified security, privacy, and compliance issues to ensure timely closure.
- Support incident and breach response activities, including investigation, documentation, and follow up actions.
You will need:
- Strong understanding of GDPR, the UK Data Protection Act, and privacy and security control requirements.
- Experience working in GRC, information security, data protection, supplier assurance, or a related compliance role.
- Ability to interpret and assess technical and organisational controls.
- Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Confident written and verbal communication skills, able to engage across legal, technical, and operational teams.
- Experience contributing to incident or breach investigations.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and constructively challenge established processes.
- Minimum 3 years' experience in a relevant role.
- CIPP/E, CIPM, CompTIA Security+, or BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection, desirable.
What you'll get in return:
- Salary of between £45k-£50k
- Hybrid working
- Company discounts
- A pension contribution matched at 1.5x, up to 5%.
- Private healthcare, dental plan, cycle to work, and keep-fit schemes.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
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