Data Protection Manager - 12 month FTC

Are you highly technical with experience in Data Protection, Data Privacy law and regulatory compliance? We’ve an exciting opportunity for a Data Protection Manager to join our AXA Health Data Protection team on a 12 month fixed term contract. You’ll provide privacy compliance advice to AXA Health, primarily helping to identify and manage privacy risks arising from strategic change programmes. You’ll also support the operation of the AXA UK privacy compliance framework e.g. advising on breach management, individual rights responses, marketing queries etc. You’ll also enhance the underlying processes themselves including policy review/revision, process updates, communication and training.

The ’Change’ aspect to the role allows the opportunity to work with teams such as Pricing, Customer Services, Data Science, IT and Architecture, Change, Data Platform Engineering, Data Governance, Data Security, Risk and Compliance, Legal, Third Party Risk as well as AXA Group and external third party providers. Initiative to support include Robotic Process Automation, Data Analytics and AI (including GenAI) use cases, company reorganisations, customer service transformations, claims transformation, digital transformation and new product launches.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You’ll work at least 40% of your week away from home at our offices, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide privacy advice to strategic change programmes via DPIAs, papers/presentations and attendance at project meetings, highlighting risks and their potential impact while working with stakeholders on mitigating actions.
• Design/review/enhance data privacy processes (and supporting templates/documentation) that help the Data Privacy Compliance Framework such as breach management, individual rights, DPIAs.
• Keep all documentation up-to-date, clear and accessible to facilitate cross-team working.
• Propose solutions to process inefficiencies and act to remediate, seeking feedback from AXA UK Data Protection teams but also sometimes working with other teams and proposing change with wider impacts.
• Participate in discussions with the AXA UK Data Protection team, providing views on technical questions based on extensive knowledge of DP law/regulatory requirements (kept up-to-date by regular horizon scanning) and experience.
• Review Data Protection clauses with third party providers and corporate clients (unlikely to be a major part of role, but may be required on occasion).

What you’ll bring:

• Data Protection experience in a large commercial group; experience in Health insurance is preferred.
• Ability to achieve consensus with stakeholders on the ‘best’ approach to regulatory compliance in the circumstances– solution driven.
• Highly technical and deep understanding of Data Privacy law and regulatory requirements (including those related to AI).
• Good understanding of Health Insurance business and health and well-being business preferred, and the challenges associated with health data.
• Experience working with healthcare providers and knowledge of their data governance and consent requirements is helpful but not essential.
• Establishing/enhancing Data Privacy compliance frameworks experience and the policies and processes that sit within them.
• Strong commercial experience with the ability to understand & integrate business & Data Protection strategies.
• Experience with new technology, platforms and software solutions (including arrangements and requirements with third parties).

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

• Competitive annual salary of up to £70,000 dependent on experience
• Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• AXA employee discounts
• Gym benefits

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge.

At AXA Health, we help our members be the best version of themselves by providing access to health and wellbeing support for mind and body. We’re transforming our business by developing easy, efficient, digital experiences for our customers.