Join Us as our GDPR Compliance Manager

We are looking for an enthusiastic and detail-driven GDPR Compliance Manager to become a key member of our UK Risk Team and help champion apetito’s commitment to data protection and privacy, on behalf of our employees and customers.

In this role you will work closely with the Risk Manager/Data Protection Officer and play a central part in strengthening our GDPR compliance across the organisation. You'll be supporting business wide initiatives and changes, ensuring that our Data Asset Registers are kept up to date, and that Privacy Impact Assessments are reviewed in a timely and effective manner enabling positive change.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys collaborating with colleagues across different departments, influencing best practice, and contributing to a culture where data protection is everyone's responsibility.

What to expect:

• A supportive team environment where your expertise is valued
• A role with variety, visibility, and the change to shape how we manage data responsibly
• Office-based onboarding for the first few months to help you settle in, followed by the flexibility of hybrid working.

If you're passionate about GDPR, enjoy problem-solving and want to make a meaningful difference in an organisation commited to doing the right thing, we'd love to hear from you.

This role requires a minimum of 3 days per week in our Trowbridge office, so you must live within reasonable commuting distance or be willing to relocate.

apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

• Supporting the Data Protection Officer specifically in the area of Data Asset Registers, Data Processing Agreements and Privacy Impact Assessments
• Supporting the Data Protection Officer in other day-to-day activities relating to GDPR legislation
• Ensure robustness through providing cover for other team members
• Project coordination and facilitation
• Supporting internal and external audits
• Supporting other team members

Essential:

• Strong understanding of data protection law
• Experience of compiling and updating Data Asset Registers
• Experience of assessing Privacy Impact Assessments
• Experience of reviewing contracts and Data Processing Agreements
• Recognised qualification in data protection e.g. BCS Practitioner in Data Protection certification, CIPP/E
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong analysis skills
• A completer-finisher
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills
• Ability to quickly pick up new digital tools and techniques
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Able to maintain integrity and follow due process
• Self-motivated and able to own and manage workload with minimal supervision
• Full UK driving licence

Desirable:

• Audit experience
• A degree in a business related subject

This role will require some travel, primarily within the UK, however this may be extended toward both European and international travel as required.

• Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future.

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.