# Assistant General Counsel - Group Data Protection Officer

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal

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## Description

Thomson Reuters is seeking an experienced, commercially minded, and people-focused Assistant General Counsel - Group Data Protection Officer to join its Legal & Privacy function.

The successful candidate will report directly to the Chief Privacy Officer and play a senior leadership role in advancing Thomson Reuters' global privacy strategy, leading a geographically distributed team of privacy lawyers, and ensuring robust data protection and cybersecurity legal compliance across its worldwide operations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Serving as the designated Data Protection Officer under UK GDPR and EU GDPR

- Providing oversight and accountability for the Privacy Operations Lead function

- Championing privacy-by-design principles across the business

- Managing regulatory relationships and incident governance

- Reporting regularly to the Chief Privacy Officer and relevant Board and Audit committees on privacy risk and regulatory developments

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data protection/privacy law or privacy leadership roles, including prior experience serving as a DPO or in a senior privacy leadership capacity at Director level or above.

In return, Thomson Reuters offers a range of benefits, including a hybrid work model, flexibility and work-life balance, career development and growth opportunities, industry-competitive benefits, and a culture that values inclusion and belonging.

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## Skills

### Required
- UK GDPR
- EU GDPR
- data protection law
- privacy leadership
- regulatory relationships

### Nice to have
- AI/automated decision-making
- board-level presentation and reporting experience
- overseeing legal/compliance and technical/engineering functions

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