Senior Data Protection Manager

Taylor Root; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Taylor Root is helping a major UK consumer business appoint a Senior Data Protection Manager in its central Data Protection function. The role sits at group level, ensuring privacy risk is understood, managed and reported consistently across the organisation.You will federate privacy activity with Data Protection Analysts, join the dots for senior stakeholders, and shape how data, privacy and AI are governed. Based in London, the role is three days per week in the office.

Qualifications

• Extensive data protection experience with strong knowledge of UK privacy law.
• Able to influence stakeholders outside direct line management.
• Experience implementing group-wide privacy governance and risk reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own group-wide privacy risk and compliance reporting.
• Coordinate federated privacy activities with Data Protection Analysts.
• Develop consistent privacy risk prioritisation for senior leadership.
• Partner with Legal, Risk, Internal Audit and Information Security.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Privacy governance

UK data protection law

Cross-functional influence

Job description

I'm working with one of the UK’s largest and most recognisable consumer businesses to appoint a Senior Data Protection Manager into its central Data Protection function.

This is a senior role at the heart of a large, complex, and increasingly data-driven organisation, that has very strong privacy foundations in place.

Rather than owning privacy within one particular business area, you’ll take a Group-wide view – helping to ensure that data protection risk is understood, managed, and reported consistently across the organisation.

A key part of that will be bringing together a federated privacy model. You’ll work closely with specialist Data Protection Analysts embedded across the business, acting as the central point that joins the dots: creating consistency, coordinating Group-wide activity, and giving senior stakeholders a clear picture of the organisation’s privacy risk and compliance position.

The environment itself is evolving quickly. The organisation is investing heavily in digital transformation, data and AI, making this an opportunity to help shape how a major consumer business uses personal data responsibly while still enabling innovation.

You’ll sit within the central regulatory function, working closely with the DPO and with significant exposure across Legal, Risk, Internal Audit, Information Security, and Data. Your remit will span the broader privacy compliance framework, with particular emphasis on risk management, governance, monitoring and assurance, and meaningful reporting to senior leadership.

We’re looking for someone with significant data protection experience and strong knowledge of UK privacy law, but this role requires more than technical expertise. You’ll need to be comfortable operating across a complex organisation, influencing people you don't directly manage, and turning privacy risk into practical priorities for the business.

For someone who has built strong privacy expertise and now wants a role with genuine Group-wide reach, senior stakeholder exposure, and the opportunity to influence how a major organisation approaches privacy, data, and AI, this is a particularly interesting next step.

This role is *3* days per week in-office in London.