Manager - Data Privacy and Data Protection

We're looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success - and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

The role will be part of the Legal and Compliance Team and will focus on privacy program management, regulatory and program monitoring, privacy-by-design, training and awareness, Privacy Champion engagement, privacy assessments, program metrics, effectiveness reviews, and audit-ready documentation.

This position offers the opportunity to help mature a global privacy program in a practical, business-aligned way. The role will strengthen privacy program ownership, monitoring, privacy-by-design, training, Privacy Champion engagement, metrics, effectiveness reviews, documentation, and audit readiness while working closely with Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Procurement, HR, Digital, and business teams.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

• Support day-to-day privacy program management, including intake and triage, recurring activities, planning, monitoring, documentation, governance routines, and follow-up on open privacy matters.
• Monitor privacy regulatory, program, and business developments translate relevant changes into program updates, training needs, process improvements, and collaborator actions.
• Drive privacy-by-design execution across strategic workflows, including digital initiatives, vendor onboarding, business processes, systems, and new initiatives involving personal data.
• Support privacy training and awareness planning, content development, delivery coordination, and role-based training improvements for global collaborators.
• Evolve the Privacy Champion program, including agenda, content, engagement, attendance, follow-up, and continuous improvement actions.
• Administer privacy management tools and maintain data maps, data inventories, privacy registrations, ROPA, transfer documentation, privacy assessments, individual rights requests, complaints, incidents, and transfer impact assessments.
• Support privacy risk management, practical control implementation, efficiency reviews, remediation and action-plan tracking, audit readiness, findings follow-up, and addressing material gaps or delays that pose a blocking issue.
• Track privacy tasks, queries, program metrics, maturity indicators, and management-ready summaries to support visibility, prioritization, and program improvement.

YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in privacy, compliance, audit, information governance, cybersecurity, law, or a related field.
• Total 8 years plus and minimum of 3 years experience in privacy, data protection, compliance, audit, information security, risk management, or related roles in a global environment.experienceof experience
• Working knowledge of global privacy requirements, including GDPR, PIPL, U.S. privacy laws, data subject rights, records of processing, transfers, and vendor privacy considerations.
• Experience supporting privacy program activities
• Strong process management skills able to manage multiple workstreams, coordinate interested parties, and drive follow-through without direct authority.
• Clear communicator who can translate privacy requirements and program priorities into practical business actions, training, summaries, and collaborator materials.
• Experience with OneTrust, or similar privacy, workflow, collaboration, or compliance tracking tools.
• Self-directed, organized, responsive, and comfortable owning program routines and improving privacy program maturity over time.

WE HAVE:

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

  • nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

  • Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at .

• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

  • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

  • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We're known for being:

  • Innovative & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other's authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.