Data Privacy Manager

Carnival UK (P&O Cruises & Cunard); Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Discounted Cruising

Annual bonus

Learning and development opportunities

Pension scheme

Job summary

Carnival UK (P&O Cruises & Cunard) is seeking a Manager, Data Privacy to lead a global privacy program from Southampton. You will manage a high-performing team, coordinate across Legal, IT, HR and operations, and drive information rights and incident response initiatives with a focus on cross-brand activity and regulatory compliance.

The role offers hybrid work with up to two days from home and requires a strong track record in privacy leadership, information rights, and program delivery

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field.
• Privacy qualification (CIPP/CIPM/CIPT, ISACA CDPSE) or willingness to obtain one.
• Strong knowledge of information rights and privacy incident management across UK/EU/US jurisdictions.
• Proven experience in managing and developing a team and coordinating cross-functional activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continually improve global information rights processes, ensuring requests are handled within statutory deadlines.
• Coordinate investigations into privacy incidents, assess risk, oversee containment and remediation, and escalate significant matters.
• Manage and develop a high-performing team by setting objectives, prioritising workloads, and coaching.
• Produce reporting and metrics, conduct data protection impact assessments, and strengthen privacy controls and awareness.

Skills

Information rights

Privacy incident management

Team leadership

Microsoft 365

Education

Privacy qualification (CIPP/CIPM/CIPT, ISACA CDPSE) or equivalent

Tools

OneTrust

PhaseLaw

Job description

Job Description

Carnival Corporation are in search of a Manager, Data Privacy, who is crucial in supporting our Corporate direction and nurturing a high-performing team, based in Southampton.

Role Overview

As part of the global Privacy and Data Protection team, you will work across Carnival Corporation and its brands to deliver key data protection outcomes and continually improve our global privacy programme. With a particular focus on information rights and privacy incident management, you will lead a team and coordinate activity with Legal, Information Security, IT, Customer Operations, Human Resources and other data-owning functions.

Key accountabilities include:

• Lead and continually improve global information rights processes, ensuring requests are handled consistently, within statutory deadlines and in line with applicable laws.
• Coordinate investigations into privacy incidents, assess risk, oversee containment and remediation, and elevate significant matters to the Privacy leadership team.
• Manage and develop a high-performing team by setting objectives, prioritising workloads, monitoring quality and providing regular guidance, feedback and coaching.
• Produce meaningful reporting and metrics, conduct data protection impact assessments and use lessons learned to strengthen privacy controls, guidance and awareness.

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK08, offered as a full-time position, on a permanent basis, we offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership

To thrive as a Manager, Data Privacy within the Corporate Privacy and Data Protection team, we're looking for:

• A bachelor's degree, equivalent relevant professional experience, or a recognised privacy qualification such as IAPP CIPP, CIPM or CIPT, ISACA CDPSE, or willingness to obtain an equivalent qualification within an agreed timeframe.
• Strong working knowledge of information rights and privacy incident management, with experience interpreting and applying requirements across the UK, EU, United States and other relevant jurisdictions.
• Proven experience managing and developing a team, coordinating complex operational matters and leading cross-functional activity across different brands, cultures or time zones.
• Strong Microsoft 365 capability and experience with privacy, workflow or case-management platforms such as OneTrust, PhaseLaw or equivalent tools.

About You: A Catalyst for Change

We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:

• Exercise sound judgement and discretion when handling confidential, sensitive or high-risk matters.
• Communicate complex privacy requirements clearly and practically to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Build collaborative relationships and influence effectively without relying on formal authority.
• Promote accountability, continuous improvement and consistent ways of working across teams and jurisdictions.

Why Join Us?

Working with us is about more than a job. It's about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you. Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:

• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Annual bonus
• A friendly welcome with help settling in
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Employee-led networks
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
• In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Parental and adoption leave
• Employee Shares Plan
• Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal

About Us

Holidays are one of life's greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.

No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world's largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain's rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.

Our diverse yet tight-knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.

It's through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel's Employer of Choice.

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