Senior Data Privacy Manager
About the role
A day in the life:
• Turn complex privacy questions into clear, proportionate recommendations that enable responsible progress.
• H elp to b uild and embed a risk-based framework for data privacy risk, including a usable view of risk appetite.
• Partner with data and technology teams on complex data-use and data-governance decisions.
• Lead the response to significant privacy issues and ensure decisions are well evidenced.
• Develop our Data Privacy Associate, through mentoring, standards and exposure to complex problem-solving.
• Create trusted relationships across the business so privacy is involved early, not at the last minute.
• Identify manual privacy processes that can be simplified or automated.
• Represent the first-line privacy perspective credibly with senior stakeholders.
About You:
• Bring substantial practical data privacy experience, with strong working knowledge of UK GDPR and its enforcement context.
• Use sound judgement to balance privacy rights, customer protection, business objectives and residual risk.
• Explain complex privacy issues clearly to non-specialists and make credible, defensible recommendations.
• Have led or materially shaped privacy frameworks, governance or operating models.
• Are comfortable working through ambiguity and taking ownership of difficult problems independently.
• Build constructive relationships with product, technology, operations, legal, risk and security partners.
• Have managed, mentored or developed others and create an environment of clear standards and support.
• Recognise data and technology risks without requiring expertise in a particular tool or platform.
Added bonus:
• Experience in fintech, technology, banking or another regulated environment.
• Experience of automated decision-making systems with significant or legal effects.
• Knowledge of privacy considerations across AI model training, prompting and outputs.
• Experience improving efficiency through automation of privacy processes.
• Legal, operational-risk or dedicated data-protection qualifications.
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