Area Manager - Data Protection & Privacy

Job description:

To drive and sustain a robust, data protection and privacy framework across operations, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and standards, safeguarding personal and sensitive data, enabling business processes, and strengthening trust between employees and stakeholders.

Skills:

- Ability to conduct Privacy by Design reviews and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new and modified processes, identify privacy risks and compliance gaps.

- Strong understanding and application of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act and allied regulatory requirements to ensure end-to-end compliance across personal data lifecycle and processing activities.

- Expertise in managing Data Principal rights, including access, correction, erasure, consent withdrawal, and grievance redressal, ensuring responses within statutory timelines and maintaining audit trails.

- Capability to assess privacy posture of third parties, vendors, and partners; perform due diligence reviews; and evaluate contractual privacy clauses to ensure adequate data protection obligations.

- Ability to design and deliver enterprise-wide privacy training and awareness programs to strengthen organisational understanding of privacy obligations and enhance compliance maturity.

Other details:

B.E., B.Tech., MCA, BSc (Engineering), Must be a Full-Time Course