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Role type: Permanent Location: London, hybrid, 2 days per week Reporting to: Director of Legal & Compliance About Hometree Join Hometree at the most exciting moment in our story. Founded in 2015, we've become one of the fastest-growing challengers in the UK home services market, spanning home cover that protects the essential systems in the home, renewable installations like solar, batteries and heat pumps, and the financing that makes them affordable. Together, we help homeowners look after their homes and move to greener, lower-carbon living. We're now going through the biggest step change in our history. By acquiring OVO Energy's Home Services division, including the trusted CORGI HomePlan and HomeHeat brands, we're becoming one of the UK's leading home services groups, with fresh investment to fuel our next phase of growth. It's a genuine inflection point, and we're looking for people who want to help us build what comes next. Key Achievements 🏆 UK's third-largest home cover provider: our latest acquisition makes us the third-largest provider of home cover in the UK. 🏆 7 Acquisitions - We've expanded our operations by acquiring 6 key companies across financing (Hometree Finance - formerly Bewarm), Home Cover (Your Repair) and energy services (Geowarmth, The Little Green Energy Company, IMS and GreenGen). And we have most recently announced the acquisition of OVO Home Services and CORGI Homeplan (subject to FCA approval). 🏆 500k Homes Covered - We cover over 500 hundred thousand homes across the UK 🏆 550+ Employees - We have over 550 passionate employees transforming the industry across the Group, one home at a time The Role This is the first dedicated Head of Data Protection role at Hometree, and a chance to shape the next phase of how a P.E.-backed, scaling, FCA-regulated group continues to place personal data protection at the heart of everything we do. We have solid foundations to build on; you’ll own data protection day to day across the Group and take our programme, systems and processes to the next level as we integrate our biggest acquisition so far. Reporting directly to the General Counsel & Director of Compliance and working with a high degree of autonomy, you’ll be the person the business turns to on data protection – across multiple brands, business models and legal entities – installations, financing and home cover. A particular focus will be partnering our Commercial teams to grow Hometree’s cross-selling ambitions in a safe and sustainable way: helping us use customer data responsibly and well, being an enabler, not a blocker. We’re after a high-agency operator who has genuinely been central to a data protection programme and knows how to mature systems and processes as a business scales. You may be someone ready for the next step up in seniority or perhaps be looking for a level of agency that you may not have in your current role. You’ll be pragmatic, commercially-minded and confident holding your own with senior stakeholders, turning good data protection into a competitive advantage rather than a gate. You’ll be a trusted, senior member of the Legal & Compliance team and the clear owner of data protection for the enlarged Group. Responsibilities: Own data protection day to day: be the Group’s go-to owner for data protection across every brand and entity, giving the business clear, practical answers while keeping us safe and compliant. Run and mature the programme: take our data protection programme end to end - policies, records of processing (Article 30), DPIAs, data subject rights, retention, processor management and breach response and mature it as we scale. Enable the cross-sell, safely: help us create value for customers and Hometree by partnering our Commercial teams to grow Hometree’s cross-selling proposition in a safe and sustainable way, advising on lawful basis, transparency, consent and responsible data sharing acro