Privacy Lead

**Privacy Lead
- **Permanent role**:

- **Surry Hills or Norwest office locations with WFH flexibility**:

- **Deliver privacy & customer trust solutions for Woolworths Group
**About Woolworths Group
**Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.

**About the role
**The Group Privacy & Customer Trust Team operates as a central team that sets the strategy for, and drives privacy and responsible data use uplift across, Woolworths. This includes the management of privacy risk, PIAs, governance, training and awareness, data ethics, incident management, resource development, compliance and reporting, evaluation and enhancements.
The Privacy Lead for AFG (Australian Food Group) is an integral member of the team and delivers privacy and customer trust solutions for AFG as a Business Unit and other functions across the Group. Critical to this role is the building of stakeholder relationships within AFG, WooliesX and across other relevant Woolworths Group business units.

**The scope of the role includes:
- Setting and delivering on the strategy and direction for privacy and customer trust at AFG aligned to, and with the support of, the Team
- Building and embedding key components of the Privacy+ Framework into systems, processes and governance in alignment with Privacy, Cyber, IT, Operations, Technology and Data Governance teams in AFG
- Delivering key foundational and strategic priorities that evolve our Privacy & Customer Trust maturity to realise our ambition as a privacy leader
- Best practice systems and processes to enhance privacy governance including the execution of PIAs, Incident Management, Data Governance, Privacy Risk and Policy Development initiatives & resources across the various business units
- Recommend, develop and support best practice in conjunction with Legal teams to manage change as a result of changing privacy legislation and regulations
- Build and develop relationships with key senior stakeholders across AFG and other relevant areas of the Group to influence and implement effective privacy & data ethics capability
- Provide thought leadership and dissemination of information as an expert in the field
- Represent Privacy & Customer Trust Team and AFG at relevant governance forums, chapters, councils and committees.
- Promote Spam Act compliance best practice within AFG teams, leveraging existing knowledge, assets and processes from the Privacy & Customer Trust Team

**Who we are looking for
**We are looking for an experienced privacy professional with an all round skill set and knowledge of Privacy, Ethics and Legal and how these impact on business.
Highly developed communication skills are required, with the ability to build relationships internally across various business units as well as with a number of external stakeholders.

**Requirements:
- 5-10 years experience in Privacy or a related field
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field including Business, Law, Technology, Privacy or related
- Proficient knowledge of Privacy Act, Australian Privacy Principles, OAIC guidance
- Experience in PIA methodologies and privacy by design
- Risk Management
- Agile ways of working experience
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategy Development
- Management and Leadership experience
- Proficiency in written and verbal communication skills including presentations
- IAPP certification or other related studies in privacy, governance, ethics

**Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences - for our customers and for each other.

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