Executive Manager, Privacy

Permanent opportunity
- Full-Time role available, Sydney or Melbourne based and hybrid workingSupport to integrate privacy into Westpac's strategic and business priorities

**How will I help?**

As the Executive Manager, Privacy, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Chief Privacy Officer to ensure the Group's compliance with privacy obligations. Your efforts will be instrumental in integrating privacy into Westpac's strategic and business priorities, particularly in the realms of data and records management. By effectively implementing these strategies, you will help maintain and enhance the trust and confidence of our customers, employees, and other stakeholders who entrust their personal information to the Westpac Group. Your work will be crucial in safeguarding their privacy and reinforcing Westpac's commitment to data protection and privacy excellence.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Oversee and implement the Group’s Privacy Program, ensuring effective frameworks, standards, and policies
- Provide privacy compliance advice and support business units with tools and methodologies for ongoing compliance
- Drive efficient processes, escalate and report privacy issues, and maintain relationships with regulators
- Develop strong internal stakeholder relationships, align privacy strategies with business goals, and collaborate with information security and other functions
- Proactively manage privacy knowledge gaps and support consistent data management practicesMaintain transparent relationships with privacy regulators, share industry knowledge, and engage with external stakeholders to ensure a quality regulatory environment

**What’s in it for me?**

Joining Westpac’s Non-Financial Risk and Chief Compliance Office team as an Executive Manager, Privacy, you will have the opportunity to drive compliance with privacy obligations, influence strategic initiatives, and build trust with stakeholders. This role offers a unique blend of strategic influence, leadership, and professional growth within a leading financial institution.

You’ll be set up for success in your transition to the role. You will collaborate in person in our Sydney or Melbourne office to re-group and connect with team members from the Risk organisation.

Additionally, whatever shape your family takes, we’ll continue to offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we’ll continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**

To excel in the role of Executive Manager, Privacy, you will need to demonstrate deep privacy expertise within a large organisation. Additionally, you should have experience in leveraging other risk classes, such as data and records management, to support the effective and consistent management of privacy risk.

Further advantageous qualities and experience includes:

- Proven ability to utilise various risk categories (such as data and records management) to ensure effective and consistent privacy risk management
- Ability to develop, implement and communicate strategic programs across the role
- Ability to multitask with competing priorities whilst maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detailKnowledge of regulatory requirements and experience in implementing within programmes to achieve regulatory expectations and broader business strategy

**What’s it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

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