Senior Manager - GDPR

Senior Manager - GDPR vacancy for our Stein based client in the chemical and agricultural sector.

Senior manager role leading enterprise-wide data protection compliance across a global Agri-tech organization operating in 130+ countries with ~60,000 employees. Responsible for establishing, implementing, and sustaining comprehensive privacy governance frameworks, with particular focus on GDPR compliance and emerging global privacy regulations.

Your tasks:

• Strategic Leadership and Vision: Develop and drive global data protection strategy and vision aligned with business objectives. Lead organizational privacy transformation and maturity enhancement initiatives.
• Global Privacy Program Management: Oversee and take accountability for the execution of functional campaigns and assess the effectiveness of those campaigns. Oversee optimization of OneTrust privacy management platform.
• Team Development and Capability Building: Lead and develop central privacy specialist team and build organizational privacy capability through training and development prorgams. Forster global data protection community.
• Operational Excellence: Provide expert consultation on complex data protection questions and lead incident response and crisis management actions, data breaches, cybersecurity incidents.
• Incident response and crisis management
• Process optimization and continuous improvement
• Training program development and delivery
• Regulatory monitoring and compliance advisory
• Global privacy program development and execution
• Cross-functional stakeholder management and influence
• Team development and talent management
• Senior stakeholder communication and related reporting & updates

Your experience/knowledge:

• Educational background in law, information security, data governance or related field
• Several years of experience in privacy program management, regulatory compliance or data governance
• GDPR and global privacy regulations (CCPA, LGPD, PIPEDA, etc.)
• Privacy technology platforms (OneTrust implementation and optimization)
• Data mapping, privacy impact assessments, and risk management frameworks
• AI governance and related compliance (EU AI act)

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Work setting: On-site

Sector: Agricultural and Chemical

Start: 10/2025

Duration: 8months +

Workload: Full-time

Ref. Nr.: BH23406

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Due to Swiss work permit restrictions, only applications from Swiss nationals, EU citizens, and current work-permit holders for Switzerland can be considered.

Applications from individuals of all genders, age groups, sexual orientations, personal expressions, ethnic backgrounds, and religious beliefs are welcome. Therefore, there is no requirement to provide gender information or a photo in the application.

As per client requirements, information about marital status, nationality, date of birth, and a valid Swiss work permit is needed. For applicants with disabilities, potential solutions with the end client can be explored.