Privacy Paralegal

Role: Privacy Paralegal

Type: Remote working with some travel to our HO in Northampton / Offices in London or Manchester

Model: Full Time / 37.50 hours per week / Monday to Friday

Salary: from £45k

Closing Date: Date to be added here 1st November 2026 - All applicants need to attach a full and relevant CV to be considered.

Purpose of Role:

To support the vision and mission of the Global Privacy Department with responsibilities as described below. Our vision is to deepen digital trust with clients, customers, prospects, suppliers, third parties and staff and to create a culture of data confidence across the company that enhances its global reputation. Our mission is to empower colleagues to deliver outstanding care, education and family solutions by protecting business continuity, managing data privacy risks, and using technology solutions to achieve our objectives and goals

What We Can Offer You:

• Our benefits include, but are not limited to;
• Flexible working and holiday entitlements
• Discounted childcare
• Quarterly Employee Appreciation Weeks
• Annual gala award evening
• Fantastic range of discounts on high street retailers, grocery stores, cinema tickets, holidays and more
• Wide range of wellbeing resources, supporting our teams for the ups and downs of daily life

Key Responsibilities

• Manage privacy operations, including rights requests, incidents, DPIAs/PIAs, records of processing activities, and data protection agreements.
• Coordinate and respond to privacy rights requests, ensuring compliance with global privacy regulations and deadlines.
• Support privacy incident investigations, remediation activities, and documentation.
• Maintain and administer privacy management systems (OneTrust), tracking databases, and departmental reporting.
• Develop, maintain, and improve privacy policies, procedures, frameworks, and intranet resources.
• Provide privacy guidance to internal stakeholders and support privacy training initiatives.
• Coordinate governance meetings, maintain records, track actions, and manage the department inbox.
• Process invoices and support general departmental administration.
• Act as a privacy subject matter expert, staying current with global privacy regulations and implementing legal changes.
• Work independently while collaborating with Privacy Counsel and the wider Privacy team on departmental projects and ad hoc activities.

Essential Education and Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ experience working as a paralegal
• Manage large workloads and execute plans from implementation to completion, including managing delivery by colleagues
• Delivering high quality and efficient service, taking account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality
• Outstanding people and relationship building skills enabling collaborative work with colleagues from across the business and all levels of seniority
• Helping to create an inclusive and professional work environment
• Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way
• Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs
• Hardworking, flexible and willing to be available when required to support the business' global offices and deadlines
• Open to change and comfortable suggesting ideas for improvements to the way things are done.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Working legal knowledge of privacy rights under CCPA / CPRA, GDPR

Why Bright Horizons?

Our support functions enable our nurseries to deliver the best possible care and education to over 10,000 children across the UK. Through this support, our nurseries can deliver excellence – with 98% of our 270+ portfolio being rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted.

We’re on a mission to change the future for children, families, and the people we work with, and are committed to progressive working values like flexibility, work-life balance, and wellbeing

Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.

Proud to be a Great Place to Work for 20 years. Apply today!

We look forward to receiving your application.

Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.

Proud to be a Great Place to Work for 20 years. Apply today!

We look forward to receiving your application!

About Us

At Bright Horizons, our culture is built on our commitment to Keeping Everyone Safe and providing world-class care and education, delivered by a world-class workforce. We believe our people’s potential is endless and with this in mind, we aspire to create an environment where our colleagues can thrive and accomplish the things they thought impossible.

Bright Horizons has been recognised as a Great Place to Work by our employees and the Great Place to Work Institute for the last 13 years. We care passionately about what we do, and our HEART values and principles help us support one another in the work that we do each day. These are quite literally at the HEART of our organisation’s ethos and culture as it helps us to provide a working environment that supports professionalism, growth and diversity.
We are passionate about our people’s ongoing learning and development. Our learning and leading with HEART framework supports each Bright Horizons colleague on the first steps of their leadership journey, whether that includes our 'World-Class Welcome' induction or our extensive ongoing training programme. Either way we want you to feel valued and invested in!

Celebrating in the accomplishments of our people is an essential part of our culture. We believe in the power of “thank you” and throughout the year, in ways big and small, formal and informal, we show our appreciation for employees at all levels. We have many ways to acknowledge and celebrate our people, including our very popular “employee appreciation month”. This is a chance for everyone to share their gratitude to one another, across the whole company. Whether it is a “thank you” placed on our website, a chocolate pizza, team lunch or an ice cream van visit, it is our way of showing each other we care and appreciate everything we do. Each year, we have our annual 'Awards of Excellence' events; whether you are an award winner or cheering on a fellow team member, these formal award occasions are opportunities to come together and celebrate one another.

By creating this account you acknowledge that Bright Horizons will collect, store and process any of your personal data provided in respect of your application and employment in accordance with our Employee Privacy Notice.

https://www.brighthorizons.co.uk/statutory-information/privacy-notice-employees.