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Senior Data Privacy Manager

Zopa· CSO General
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Hybrid (London)Employee - PermanentPosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior first-line privacy lead overseeing data privacy across the business, with line-management responsibility for a Data Privacy Associate and cross-functional partnership with Engineering, Technology, Operations, Legal, Risk and Information Security.

Responsibilities

  • Turn complex privacy questions into clear, proportionate recommendations that enable responsible progress.
  • Help to build 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:UK GDPR knowledgeRisk-based privacy frameworkStakeholder managementLine management/mentoringData governance

Benefits

  • Hybrid (London office 2-3 days per week) and option to work from abroad up to 120 days a year, subject to right to work in country of choice.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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