Privacy Project Manager

Royalmailgroup; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Mail seeks a proactive Privacy Project Manager to drive an 18-month transformative Privacy Programme. This role involves stakeholder engagement, budget management, and ensuring project delivery to strengthen privacy governance. Join a high-performing team for a pivotal phase aimed at enhancing business value while leading innovative projects amidst environmental responsibility.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Employee discounts and offers

Generous sick pay

24/7 wellbeing support for employees and families

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management with complex stakeholders.
• Ability to manage budgets effectively.
• Understanding of information governance processes is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, budgeting, and progress tracking.
• Engage with stakeholders and manage project risks.
• Ensure timely delivery within cost parameters.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Risk Management

Budget Management

Information Governance

Education

Project Management Certification

Tools

Project Management Software

Job description

Job reference 325442
Privacy Project Manager
Competitive salary depending on relevant skills and experience. Annual bonus potential, 25days annual leave plus bank holidays.
18 Month Fixed Term Contract, Full time
Location, This is a hybrid working role with a requirement to attend, the London, Farringdon, EC1A 1AA office every Tuesday and 1 other day each week.

At Royal Mail we have served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale. Our journey to improve never stops, and that is where we need you.

We are currently innovating and transforming our business for the future, adapting towards a parcel delivery market, as well as taking environmental responsibility for our impact as a business. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

Are you a proactive, focused individual with a background in Project Management? We are looking for Privacy Project Manager to join our Team on an 18-month Fixed Term Contract. Interested? More details and how to apply can be found below.

You’ll be joining for the final 18 months of a transformative 3-year Privacy Programme aimed at strengthening privacy and information governance to drive business value across Royal Mail. This is a pivotal phase focused on driving the programme to successful completion. You’ll be part of a high –performing team recognised for excellence - by the Institute of Internal Communications award for ‘excellence’ and winners of the ‘Privacy Team of the Year’ by the Picasso Privacy Awards in 2023, and shortlisted in 2024, as was the Privacy Programme.

About the role

As a Privacy Project Manager you will work with the Privacy Programme Manager, Project Sponsors, and SMEs over an 18-month period to drive delivery. You’ll be leading planning, budgeting, progress tracking, reporting, and managing stakeholder engagement within a defined governance framework – using standard project management tools and methodologies. This is a hands-on role, requiring proactive management and ownership of actions to keep the programme on track.

The Privacy projects you will be involved in, are Information Governance & Data Deletion, Third Party Privacy Risk, and AI Governance. You will ensure that projects are delivered on time, within cost parameters, to quality and deliver stated benefits.

You will also
• Identify, monitor and manage the risks and issues within the project working with senior stakeholders to identify and deploy suitable mitigation
• Lead all governance arrangements for project delivery including reporting and risk management
• Lead financial and other resource allocation to optimise the return on investment and subsequently the planning and controlling of project finances.
• Establish and manage reviews at appropriate points and levels throughout the project lifecycle, and all required meetings.

About You

To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:
• Able to coherently articulate and drive the Programme/Project Plan and the team to deliver key elements of the plan and dependencies
• Able to proactively manage activities and budgets with multiple internal and external key stakeholders
• Able to utilise appropriate measurement tools to evaluate the on-going progress and effectiveness of a project
• Proven experience of operating at senior stakeholder level
• Knowledge of privacy, risk and information governance processes within a live project environment [not essential but desirable].

Extra Benefits

•Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
•Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
•Supportive and generous company sick pay
•Your Wellbeing -you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

Closing Date: Monday 30th June 2025. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

The selection process includes a telephone interview, followed by a face-to-face interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews on W/C 7th July at Royal Mail, 185 Farringdon Road, London, EC1A 1AA.

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we’d love to hear from you.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

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