Overview
Data Subject Rights Assistant – Leeds, LS11 5AD
Job Title
Data Subject Rights Assistant
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Quality Assurance – SF
Closing Date
9 October 2025
Find your role:
Legal & Compliance is recruiting for a Data Subject Rights Assistant within the Data Protection Team. It’s a great opportunity to develop your skills and learn about the world of privacy compliance.
The Data Protection Team is a fast-paced environment where new challenges come up all the time. Your role will be to help ensure that Asda stays compliant with GDPR when it comes to fulfilling rights requests from colleagues and customers. You will be supported by a Data Protection Specialist, who you will report to.
What you’ll do
Be the first point of contact for customers and colleagues who want to exercise their data subject rights (for example, making a subject access request or asking for their data to be deleted).
Review those requests and triage them to ensure that they are dealt with promptly and effectively within the legal deadline.
Have responsibility for logging requests on the team’s database and tracking them through to completion.
Action requests: gather documents and information from the relevant parts of the business, review the information to ensure the right level of detail is shared.
Communicate with individuals in relation to their requests.
Work with the team to resolve challenges and issues as they arise.
How you’ll do it
We’re looking for someone who wants to do the right thing by our customers and colleagues, who can communicate well with others and who relishes being part of an energetic and hard-working team. You should have a happy to help attitude, be able to pick things up quickly and will need to work well under pressure. You’ll need to be passionate about delivering great results and enthusiastic about learning and developing the role.
Lets find out about you:
– Customer service experience (useful but not essential);
– Good attention to detail;
– Confident written communication skills;
– Ability to develop strong working relationships;
– Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload;
– Great time management;
– Ability to work under pressure;
– Ability to proactively seek out better ways of doing things and offer up ideas and solutions;
– Comfortable using Microsoft programs such as Outlook, Word and PowerPoint and learning how to use new software (the team uses One Trust).
Everything you’ll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
