Privacy Manager

The Company

• Join a well-established residential property business based in Sydney CBD, with a strong reputation for delivering quality homes and communities.
• Be part of an organisation that values trust, accountability and doing the right thing for customers, partners and employees.
• Work in a collaborative corporate environment where privacy, risk and compliance are taken seriously and seen as key to the business's long-term success.
• This is a great opportunity to step into a meaningful role where you can influence policy, guide best practice and help shape a strong privacy culture across the organisation.

The Role

• Lead the company's privacy function and act as the key point of contact for all privacy-related matters across the business.
• Develop, implement and maintain privacy frameworks, policies and procedures to support compliance with relevant legislation and internal standards.
• Provide practical advice to stakeholders on privacy obligations, data handling, consent, retention and risk management.
• Partner with teams across the business including legal, risk, technology, customer service and operations to embed privacy by design into projects and processes.
• Manage privacy impact assessments and support risk reviews for new initiatives, systems and business changes.
• Investigate privacy incidents, manage breach response processes and support reporting obligations where required.
• Deliver training and awareness programs to uplift understanding of privacy responsibilities across the organisation.
• Monitor regulatory developments and emerging privacy issues, and translate them into clear, commercially relevant guidance for the business.
• Support audits, reporting and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen the company's overall privacy maturity.

About You

• You have proven experience in privacy, risk, compliance or legal roles, ideally within property, residential, real estate or a similarly regulated environment.
• You bring a solid understanding of Australian privacy legislation and a practical approach to applying it in a business setting.
• You are confident advising senior stakeholders and can balance regulatory requirements with commercial outcomes.
• You have strong policy, governance and incident management capability, with the ability to work through both strategic and operational matters.
• You are a clear communicator who can explain complex privacy issues in a way that is easy for others to understand and act on.
• You're proactive, organised and comfortable working across multiple teams in a fast-paced environment.
• You enjoy building relationships, influencing change and helping create a culture of accountability and care around personal information.
• Relevant qualifications in law, compliance, risk, governance or privacy will be highly regarded.

This is a hybrid position.

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