Privacy Manager - Event-led Divisions

Company Description

Informa is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.

We’re the specialist’s specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make break throughs, and take better informed decisions.

Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 10,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

Informa’s divisions include:

• Informa Connect, a specialist in content-driven events and digital communities that allow professionals to meet, connect, learn and share knowledge.
• Informa Markets, creating platforms for international markets to trade, innovate and grow. Through over 500 leading brands, our exhibitions, specialist digital content and data solutions allow customers operating in specialist markets to meet and trade, and for their businesses and markets to thrive. 
• Informa Tech, a division bringing specialism in technology. We aim to inspire the global technology community to design, build and run a better digital world through research, media, training and events that inform, educate and connect businesses and professionals working in technology.
• Taylor & Francis, specialist in scholarly research and in helping academic and research communities make new breakthroughs.  We commission, curate, produce and publish scholarly research and reference-led content in specialist subject areas, helping to advance research and enabling knowledge to be discovered and shared.
• Global Support is Informa's sixth division, with major hubs in the United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong and Singapore as well as several smaller locations.  As the team behind the teams, Global Support colleagues provide shared, efficient business services and function-specific expertise to each of Informa's operating divisions, enabling our commercial teams to focus on their markets and customers.

Job Description

The Privacy Team acts as a technical resource to the Group, providing advice and assistance with the practical consequences of complying with relevant obligations, including interpretation of relevant laws, and guidance on the implementation of internal policies and procedures. The role reports into the Head of Privacy for Informa Connect, Informa Markets and Informa Tech. The Privacy function ultimately reports into the Group Chief Privacy Officer (CPO). The CPO is responsible for the maintenance, execution and enforcement of the Group Privacy Programme including Groupwide policy, framework, guidance and standards for all teams and colleagues.

We are looking for a hardworking, motivated and friendly Privacy Manager to join the event led Divisional privacy team. The role reports into the Head of Privacy for Informa Connect, Informa Markets and Informa Tech and will work closely with Privacy Analysts to provide professional, commercially balanced, high-quality advice and drive forward the initiatives of the Group’s Data Privacy programme.

As a Privacy Manager serving the event led divisions, you will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation on projects to ensure that privacy by design principles are applied and that risks are reviewed, assessed, and managed appropriately.  This role will have responsibility for providing guidance on key strategic projects as well as the management of established privacy processes, working with a wide number of internal teams (Global Technology, HR, Corporate Travel, Legal, InfoSec) to ensure we are compliant with applicable regulations and maintain a high standard of compliance resilience across the Divisions we support.

The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge and experience applying European marketing rules and implementing a privacy and marketing permission requirements within a global business.

This role is suited to an experienced data privacy professional with the ability to bring both legal and operational expertise to their role. The successful candidate will need experience in working with Marketing, Technology and digital functions with the ability to multi-task, and take a pragmatic, risk-based approach to data protection compliance in a fast-paced commercial environment.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

·       Lead and deliver core initiatives of the Privacy programme including managing rights requests, undertaking Privacy Impact Assessments and providing privacy advice to the business.

·       Working with the Head of Privacy to support business initiatives including M&A activity. Provide professional, efficient