Senior Data Privacy Manager

Marshall Wolfe; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Marshall Wolfe seeks a Data Privacy Senior Manager for a high-impact role in its privacy, data governance and controls function within the financial services sector. London, Manchester or Northampton are offered locations.

You will lead the development and implementation of privacy policies, drive privacy-by-design, and coordinate DPIAs, TIAs and data-sharing controls across complex, regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of UK GDPR and privacy requirements in a complex regulated environment.
• Hands-on experience delivering DPIAs, TIAs, data privacy assessments and privacy risk management.
• Experience operating in banking, insurance, fintech or another large financial services environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and evidence data privacy policies, procedures, controls and governance frameworks across the organisation.
• Embed privacy-by-design into product, platform, architecture and change delivery processes.
• Lead complex DPIAs, TIAs, ROPA activity, consent and cookie governance, international transfer assessments and data-sharing controls.
• Partner with stakeholders across Legal, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Data, Security and Product teams to improve how personal data is used, protected and governed.
• Support incident response readiness, including breach management processes, escalation routes and 72‑hour regulatory response preparedness.
• Help drive the privacy tooling roadmap, including automation, workflow, data discovery, classification and reporting capability.
• Provide senior-level insight, challenge and reporting through clear metrics, KRIs, OKRs and risk-based recommendations.

Skills

UK GDPR knowledge

DPIAs

TIAs

Data protection risk management

Stakeholder leadership

Cloud platforms

Privacy management tools

Tools

OneTrust

Collibra

Purview

BigID

Job description

Data Privacy Senior Manager – Financial Services

Data Privacy Senior Manager – Financial Services

Location s: London, Manchester or Northampton.

We are working with a leading financial services organisation to appoint a Data Privacy Senior Manager into a high-impact role within its privacy, data governance and controls function. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced privacy professional to help shape a modern, technology-enabled privacy operating model across a complex, regulated environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop, implement and evidence data privacy policies, procedures, controls and governance frameworks across the organisation.
• Embed privacy-by-design into product, platform, architecture and change delivery processes.
• Lead complex DPIAs, TIAs, ROPA activity, consent and cookie governance, international transfer assessments and data-sharing controls.
• Partner with stakeholders across Legal, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Data, Security and Product teams to improve how personal data is used, protected and governed.
• Support incident response readiness, including breach management processes, escalation routes and 72‑hour regulatory response preparedness.
• Help drive the privacy tooling roadmap, including automation, workflow, data discovery, classification and reporting capability.
• Provide senior-level insight, challenge and reporting through clear metrics, KRIs, OKRs and risk-based recommendations.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong knowledge of UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and privacy requirements in a complex regulated environment.
• Hands‑on experience delivering DPIAs, TIAs, control design, data privacy assessments and privacy risk management.
• Experience operating in banking, insurance, fintech or another large financial services environment.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate privacy obligations into practical business and technology outcomes.
• Confidence working with agile delivery, product teams, cloud platforms, data governance tools or privacy management platforms such as OneTrust, Collibra, Purview or BigID.
• A proactive, pragmatic style with the ability to balance regulatory expectations, customer outcomes and commercial priorities.

This role offers the chance to take on a visible senior position with a respected financial services client undergoing meaningful change across privacy, data, technology and controls. You will be joining at a point where privacy is moving beyond policy and compliance into a more embedded, product‑led and technology‑enabled discipline.