Senior Vice President, Data Privacy

BNY; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is seeking a Senior Vice President, Data Privacy to join the Global Privacy Office in Manchester. This hybrid role focuses on leading privacy initiatives and delivering program outcomes across a regulated financial services environment.

You will manage incidents, data subject requests, privacy risk assessments, and regulatory change efforts while responsibly applying AI tools to improve governance, reporting, and effectiveness, collaborating with stakeholders to maintain high

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience operationalizing privacy laws in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a privacy subject matter expert to shape enterprise privacy program.
• Lead privacy activities including incidents, individual rights requests, risk assessments and regulatory change initiatives.
• Identify and scale AI tools to improve privacy processes and governance.
• Partner with stakeholders across functions to ensure timely delivery of privacy deliverables.

Skills

Privacy governance

Stakeholder influence

Regulatory change management

Incident management

AI governance in privacy

Education

Bachelor’s or higher degree (JD, MBA, or equivalent)

Tools

OneTrust

Job description

Job Description

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Data Privacy to join the Global Privacy Office team. This role is hybrid (4 days in-office) and located in Manchester.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Serve as a strong privacy subject matter expert, helping to shape and advance BNY’s enterprise privacy program and advising business stakeholders in the context of a rapidly evolving technology and regulatory landscape.
• Lead key privacy activities, including privacy incidents, individual rights requests (e.g. data subject access requests), privacy risk assessments and privacy regulatory change initiatives.
• Identify, implement and scale opportunities to use AI tools to improve privacy processes, increase efficiency, and deliver better privacy risk management outcomes. Also drive the effective use and enhancement of existing privacy management technology to improve governance, workflow management, reporting and program outcomes.
• Partner effectively with stakeholders across functions to drive timely execution of privacy deliverables, influence decisions and maintain a high standard of quality and organization.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree (JD, MBA, or equivalent) or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Expertise in operationalizing financial services-applicable privacy laws/regulations, e.g. privacy incident management, individual rights request management, privacy risk assessments and privacy regulatory change management.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI and other technology (e.g. OneTrust) responsibly to improve privacy processes, controls and outcomes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and a proven ability to influence stakeholders and deliver high-quality work at pace in a dynamic, highly regulated environment
• Professional privacy and/or AI governance certifications preferred, e.g. CIPP, CIPT, AIGP