The Company Village Hotels is a UK-based hotel brand with soon-to-be 34 sites. We uniquely offer a mid-market hotel, a fitness club, and food and beverage options, including a Starbucks coffee retail unit, all under one roof. Our unique concept makes us very successful, often leading the market in revenue and currently growing with several new hotels and extensions planned for 2025. 

The Role As our Data Protection and Compliance Assistant, you'll be a key member of the Legal Team, supporting the organisation's adherence to all relevant data privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You'll work closely with the General Counsel and Compliance Officer, as well as various hotel and central support teams, to manage day-to-day data protection requests and incidents. This is a crucial role in ensuring the privacy and security of our guests' and employees' information. 

Key Responsibilities 

● Manage Data Subject Requests: You will handle all data subject requests (access, rectification, erasure, and "right to be forgotten"). This includes tracking requests from start to finish, ensuring timely completion and compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws. 

● Process Law Enforcement Requests: You'll manage and track Data Access requests from law enforcement agencies, such as the police, ensuring legitimate requests are fulfilled according to legal protocols. 

● Manage Security Breaches: You'll track and manage reported security breaches from internal teams or external customers, promptly escalating incidents to the General Counsel and Compliance Officer for mitigation and prevention.

● Liaise and Collaborate: You'll build and maintain strong relationships with all hotel departments, central support teams, and senior management to coordinate responses, gather information, and ensure a unified approach to data protection. 

● Support Licensing Compliance: With the support of the General Counsel, you'll assist in managing licensing across the portfolio, including premises, marriage, copyright, and PRS/PPL licensing. 

● Manage Legal Invoicing: You'll be responsible for managing the in-house legal invoicing process. 

● A working knowledge of data protection law and practices is essential. 

● Methodical and organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects concurrently. 

● Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

● Able to multi-task and work independently with minimal supervision to meet deadlines. 

● Flexible, proactive, quick to learn, and possessing a can-do attitude. 

Work, Grow, Play! Here at Village Hotels, we're all about embracing personality, individualism, and fun. Forget stuffy hotels built on formality; we create lively, modern spaces for our guests to work, eat, relax, play, and exercise. We have hotels and leisure clubs from Aberdeen to Bournemouth and more opening soon. We rely on you to deliver service that puts us head and shoulders above the competition. 

Join us and we can offer you amazing benefits*, such as: 

● Complimentary Health and Wellness Membership at your home club for you and a family member/friend, worth £1,500 a year. 

● Significant discounts on hotel stays and food & drink at all our locations. 

● Excellent training and development programs, including our Rising Stars and Talent Academy. 

● A fun, supportive, and inclusive work environment with regular team events. 

● Excellent Reward and Recognition incentive schemes. 

● Have your birthday off, guaranteed. 

● Electric car salary sacrifice scheme. 

● Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits and pay. 

● Financial wellbeing support, including salary drawdown via Wagestream. 

● Access to our Employee Assistance Programme and up to 2 mental health days annually. 

*T&C’s apply based on your contract.

The Company Village Hotels is a UK-based hotel brand with soon-to-be 34 sites. We uniquely offer a mid-market hotel, a fitness club, and food and beverage options, including a Starbucks coffee retail unit, all under one roof. Our unique concept makes us very successful, often leading the market in revenue and currently growing with several new hotels and extensions planned for 2025. 

The Role As our Data Protection and Compliance Assistant, you'll be a key member of the Legal Team, supporting the organisation's adherence to all relevant data privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You'll work closely with the General Counsel and Compliance Officer, as well as various hotel and central support teams, to manage day-to-day data protection requests and incidents. This is a crucial role in ensuring the privacy and security of our guests' and employees' information. 

Key Responsibilities 

● Manage Data Subject Requests: You will handle all data subject requests (access, rectification, erasure, and "right to be forgotten"). This includes tracking requests from start to finish, ensuring timely completion and compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws. 

● Process Law Enforcement Requests: You'll manage and track Data Access requests from law enforcement agencies, such as the police, ensuring legitimate requests are fulfilled according to legal protocols. 

● Manage Security Breaches: You'll track and manage reported security breaches from internal teams or external customers, promptly escalating incidents to the General Counsel and Compliance Officer for mitigation and prevention.

● Liaise and Collaborate: You'll build and maintain strong relationships with all hotel departments, central support teams, and senior management to coordinate responses, gather information, and ensure a unified approach to data protection. 

● Support Licensing Compliance: With the support of the General Counsel, you'll assist in managing licensing across the portfolio, including premises, marriage, copyright, and PRS/PPL licensing. 

● Manage Legal Invoicing: You'll be responsible for managing the in-house legal invoicing process. 

● A working knowledge of data protection law and practices is essential. 

● Methodical and organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects concurrently. 

● Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

● Able to multi-task and work independently with minimal supervision to meet deadlines. 

● Flexible, proactive, quick to learn, and possessing a can-do attitude. 

Work, Grow, Play! Here at Village Hotels, we're all about embracing personality, individualism, and fun. Forget stuffy hotels built on formality; we create lively, modern spaces for our guests to work, eat, relax, play, and exercise. We have hotels and leisure clubs from Aberdeen to Bournemouth and more opening soon. We rely on you to deliver service that puts us head and shoulders above the competition. 

Join us and we can offer you amazing benefits*, such as: 

● Complimentary Health and Wellness Membership at your home club for you and a family member/friend, worth £1,500 a year. 

● Significant discounts on hotel stays and food & drink at all our locations. 

● Excellent training and development programs, including our Rising Stars and Talent Academy. 

● A fun, supportive, and inclusive work environment with regular team events. 

● Excellent Reward and Recognition incentive schemes. 

● Have your birthday off, guaranteed. 

● Electric car salary sacrifice scheme. 

● Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits and pay. 

● Financial wellbeing support, including salary drawdown via Wagestream. 

● Access to our Employee Assistance Programme and up to 2 mental health days annually. 

*T&C’s apply based on your contract.