Job Description:
Group Senior Legal Advisor - Privacy
London, Leeds or Manchester
Permanent role
Hybrid & part time working considered (28 hours+ with Monday & Friday working requirement)
Competitive salary DOE and generous benefits package
The closing date for all applications is Friday 12th September 2025
We make health happen!
At Bupa, we're driven by a clear purpose: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. With no shareholders, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Data is a key pillar of our strategy, and managing privacy risk effectively is essential to our success.
As our Senior Legal Adviser, Privacy, you'll support our leaders, businesses and functions, and play a vital role in shaping how we help enable use of data whilst governing privacy and digital legal risk across Bupa.
How you'll help us make health happen!
You'll support senior leaders, businesses and functions across Bupa with privacy, digital and AI expertise.
Take the lead SME role on a variety of projects with global reach and strategic impact.
Assist the Group Privacy Counsel with the development and maintenance of the Enterprise Privacy Policy, standards, governance and reporting, to ensure compliance and mitigate risk.
Provide an escalation point for complex technical queries and ensure their effective and commercially sound resolution.
Keep up to date with external best practice and developments in the law to ensure continuous improvement.
Initiate, facilitate and promote activities to foster privacy awareness within the organisation.
Play a role in coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues as and when required
Skills / Qualifications needed for this role
Significant experience as a qualified solicitor / certified privacy professional with in-depth and extensive specialist knowledge of privacy, data, digital and AI law/regulation/issues.
In house experience within a large, global, complex organisation, preferably within healthcare, insurance or healthtech.
Worked in matrixed roles with a high degree of cross-functional dependency.
Strong background in negotiating complex global contracts, e.g. with tech providers providing cloud services.
Proven ability to advise on privacy and digital aspects of strategic, multi-jurisdictional data sharing, cloud and technology projects.
Thrives in a fast-moving and evolving environment, staying resilient and focused on finding practical, business-focused solutions-even if the path forward is unknown or isn't immediately clear.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with a track record of building trusted relationships and collaborating across teams and markets to deliver clear, strategic legal guidance.
Motivated to adopt new technology, including AI productivity tools, to work smarter.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
25 days holiday per year.
Management bonus scheme
Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing
Access to our confidential employee assistance programme
Workplace pension
Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.
Why Bupa?
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
Locations:
Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challeging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.
We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you.
As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.
Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.
Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.