Senior Legal & Privacy Manager

Join PetLab Co., a fast-growing international business, as a Senior Legal & Privacy Manager. In this senior role, you will oversee the day-to-day operations of our privacy program and legal operations, independently progressing commercial, consumer, IP, and governance matters. You will act as the coordination point across the legal team, triaging new matters, setting priorities, forming practical recommendations, managing stakeholders, and seeing decisions through to completion. This role requires significant hands-on data privacy experience and strong legal fluency.

• Oversee and coordinate the privacy programme across the UK, EU, US and Canada, advising on new or changed uses of personal data.
• Manage the contract lifecycle from intake to post-signature, working with the General Counsel on higher-risk or strategic agreements.
• Act as the coordination point between the General Counsel, business stakeholders, external counsel and other advisers, improving workflows and knowledge management.

• Strong stakeholder management and the credibility to influence senior commercial and technical colleagues
• Willingness to give and receive direct feedback, and to challenge and be challenged
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation, including managing competing deadlines and separating significant risks from routine work
• A high degree of professional ethics, discretion and integrity
• The ability to investigate an issue, identify the material facts and risks, and present clear options and a practical recommendation
• Substantial in-house legal, privacy or compliance experience, with strong legal literacy and the ability to apply legal and regulatory requirements in a commercial setting
• Experience running legal or compliance workflows and a varied caseload from intake through to closure
• Strong written and verbal communication, translating complex requirements for non-legal audiences
• Strong commercial judgement and the confidence to progress matters independently, while recognising when to escalate
• Significant hands-on privacy and data protection experience across many of the follwing : vendor assessments and DPAs, DPIAs, data subject rights, privacy notices, cookies and consent, incident response, records of processing and data retention
• A law degree, qualification as a lawyer, or another relevant legal or privacy qualification (advantageous, not required)
• A recognised privacy certification such as CIPP/E, CIPM or equivalent
• Experience in e-commerce, D2C, consumer health or another regulated consumer category
• Exposure to US or Canadian privacy, consumer protection or advertising requirements
• Experience reviewing commercial contracts or managing contract lifecycle processes
• Experience with trademark portfolio administration, brand protection or online enforcement