Data Privacy Manager

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About the role

Partnering with senior stakeholders across business and control functions, you will drive governance, risk, and compliance outcomes that support strategic decision-making, regulatory excellence, and operational effectiveness. This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-wide programs and make a measurable impact across a global organization.

Purpose of the role: To enable effective data governance, risk management, and compliance within the bank, acting as a liaison between business units and the Data & Records Management (DRM) function, translating business needs into actionable strategies and ensuring efficient implementation of DRM.

Responsibilities

• Guide enterprise-wide Data Privacy, Regulatory Compliance, and Data Governance programs within a multi-layered financial services environment, with an understanding of global privacy regulations and their application to business processes and change programs.
• Build trusted partnerships with senior business, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Technology, and Operations stakeholders, influencing strategic decisions and embedding privacy-by-design principles into business strategy, transformation programs, products, and services.
• Drive the implementation and continuous enhancement of privacy governance frameworks, privacy risk assessments, control environments, and regulatory compliance programs to ensure personal data is handled lawfully, transparently, and securely.
• Assess privacy implications of Investment Banking and Markets business activities, including new products, technologies, data uses, and regulatory changes, while balancing commercial targets with effective risk management and customer trust.
• Partner with the local business unit to ensure successful implementation of data & records governance frameworks as appropriate to the needs of the business unit.
• Provide guidance and support on records classification, retention, storage, retrieval, and disposal to business units.
• Monitor local data quality and records metrics and identify areas for improvement.
• Identify opportunities for data improvement and optimization.
• Partner with the relevant business unit to support their data priorities and ensure appropriate decisions related to data & records are embedded in their BAU decision-making and change programs.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives.

Requirements

• Experience implementing and embedding Data Privacy governance frameworks, including privacy-by-design, privacy risk assessments, privacy notices, lawful basis assessments, and regulatory compliance requirements across business and technology change programs.
• Understanding of global data protection and privacy regulations, with the ability to interpret regulatory requirements, assess privacy risks, and translate multi-layered obligations into practical business controls and governance outcomes within a financial services environment.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset—to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team: define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead specialists to influence department operations in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short- and long-term goals while ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If an individual contributor: serve as a subject matter expert within your discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi-year assignments, and train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists. Provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.

Skills

You may be assessed on the following key critical skills relevant for success in this role:

• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Location

This role is located in New York, NY and Whippany, NJ.

Pay

For New York, NY: Minimum Salary: $160,000, Maximum Salary: $200,000 (base salary only; does not include other types of compensation or benefits).

For Whippany, NJ: Minimum Salary: $160,000, Maximum Salary: $200,000 (base salary only; does not include other types of compensation or benefits).

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Benefits

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Life insurance
• Other paid leave for qualifying circumstances