Corporate Services Risk and Data Protection Manager

Location: Greater London

Howden is a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 23,000 employees spanning over 56 countries.

People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It’s what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work / life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.
** About Howden Group
** Howden Group has always been a company with a difference – with employee ownership at its heart and clients at the front of its mind.

Founded in 1994 as a specialist D&O broker, and from the modest beginnings of our first five years reaching into Europe, we are now the largest European insurance intermediary group in the world and the largest outside the US, with over £3bn in revenue and managing premiums of more than £30bn.

The Group comprises  Broking, the international challenger insurance & reinsurance broker, , the largest international MGA and the Howden Group Services division which helps to support all of our operations globally. We are a group of international experts with a local touch and a digital backbone.

With operations in 55 countries across the UK and Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, the US and Latin America. With circa 25,000 employees from Berlin to Brisbane, and growing, Howden Group has grown over the last quarter of a century as the group challenging the status quo for clients every day and in every market in which we operate.

We’re looking for a Data Protection & Risk and Control Manager to work within our Group Services division  to help drive forward, and support, some of our most challenging and interesting Personal Data related projects.
** Howden Group Services - Data Protection & Risk and Controls Manager
** Howden Group Services (HGS) is a central division of the Howden Group that provides a wide range of central services to the organisation worldwide – these services include (not exhaustive):
* Information Technology (IT)
* Human Resources (HR)
* Finance* Corporate Services
* Company Secretarial
* Risk & Compliance
* Data Management & AI Corporate Services is a function sitting within HGS, providing services such as Facilities Management, Procurement, Business Continuity and Health & Safety Given the current growth of the business, and its divisions/functions, as well as its ongoing journey to improve its Risk & Control maturity, we are looking for a Data Protection & Risk and Controls Manager to join an exciting a dynamic company to help support and drive forward our Risk & Compliance agenda.

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* About the role:

** Whilst the role will be responsible & accountable for Data Protection compliance for the HGS division, it will sit within and report to the Corporate Services function and will support that function with developing and embedding its Risk & Control framework.

The role holder will be responsible for managing general Data Protection & Risk matters in line with the Group’s strategy and in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
The role holder will be required to liaise regularly with Risk & Compliance leads across the organisation as well as updating the Group Risk and Group DPO functions.

The role holder will assist with more general BAU matters relating to risk management and data protection compliance such as new projects, contract reviews, DPIA’s, & DSAR’s and support the Business and Corporate Services teams as they embed their control framework.

The role requires a confident, self-starter, who can engage and interact well with our colleagues from across the organisation, and who can apply a risk-based and proportionate approach to these areas of Risk & Compliance.
** Key responsibilities**
* ** Data Protection**  + Manage Data Protection compliance generally across all of HGS, with support and direction from the Group DP Office.  + Establish processes to…