Role: Manager – Corporate Compliance (Data Privacy)
Location: Mumbai
Job Description
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced and driven manager to strengthen our enterprise-wide privacy program. The successful candidate will serve as a subject-matter expert and trusted advisor, helping the organization to operate data protection obligations, manage privacy risk, and embed a culture of privacy-by-design across all business functions. This is a high-visibility role with direct impact on regulatory standing, customer trust, and strategic risk management.
Key Responsibilities:
Privacy Program Management
- Design, implement, and continuously improve the enterprise data privacy programme in alignment with applicable regulations (GDPR, CCPA, PDPA, and other relevant frameworks).
- Maintain and evolve the organization's privacy governance framework, including policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.
- Conduct the Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) and ensure regular review and accuracy of all data processing inventories.
Regulatory Compliance & Advisory
- Monitor and interpret global data privacy laws and regulations; provide timely guidance to legal, technology, and business stakeholders on compliance obligations.
- Conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new projects, products, and third-party engagements.
- Manage data subject rights requests (DSARs) processes, ensuring timely and compliant responses across jurisdictions.
Privacy Technology & Tools
- Administer and optimize privacy management platforms, with hands-on experience in OneTrust or equivalent privacy tools.
- Leverage tooling to automate consent management, data mapping, incident workflows, and vendor assessment processes.
- Partner with IT and cybersecurity teams to implement technical and organisational measures supporting privacy compliance.
Data Incident & Breach Management
- Assist in the data breach response process: triage, contain, notify regulators and affected individuals in accordance with statutory timelines.
- Maintain the data incident register and produce post-incident reports with remediation actions.
Third-Party & Vendor Privacy
- Conduct due diligence on vendors and partners who process personal data; negotiate and review Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
- Manage the privacy risk assessment lifecycle for third-party relationships end-to-end.
Training & Culture
- Develop and deliver targeted privacy training and awareness campaigns across business units.
- Champion privacy-by-design principles in product development and business change initiatives.
Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement
- Prepare regular reports and dashboards on privacy program metrics for senior leadership, the DPO, and board-level committees.
- Engage with regulators, external counsel, and industry bodies as required.
Qualifications & Experience:
Essential
- 6–9 years of progressive, hands-on experience in data privacy, data protection, or information governance roles.
- Demonstrable experience managing end-to-end privacy programmes within complex, multi-jurisdictional organizations.
- Strong knowledge of GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA and other major privacy frameworks; familiarity with sector-specific regulations (e.g. HIPAA, PSD2) is a plus.
- Proven expertise with OneTrust or comparable privacy management platforms.
- Experience conducting DPIAs, PIAs, RoPA maintenance, and DSAR management.
- Track record of advising C-suite, legal, and technology stakeholders on privacy risk.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable business guidance.
- One or more recognised privacy certifications: CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT (IAPP) or equivalent.
Desirable
- LLB or equivalent law degree, providing a strong foundation in legal interpretation and regulatory engagement.
- Experience with Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), cross-border data transfer mechanisms, or international privacy programmes.
- Exposure to privacy engineering, data minimisation architecture, or AI/ML governance.
- Experience in a regulated industry (financial services, healthcare, or technology)
