Data Privacy Leader

Are you a dedicated leader passionate about continuously safeguarding information, ensuring a secure environment to create a better everyday life for the many? Do you excel at embedding privacy by design and influencing stakeholders to uphold brand trust? If you’re ready to bring your expertise in data privacy to IKEA across Australia and New Zealand, then we’d love to meet you!

Our team within IKEA

At IKEA, our CFO function acts as a strategic partner, dedicated to optimizing long-term business performance, driving good growth, and enhancing customer value. We empower the organization to proactively grasp opportunities and take responsible risks. By seamlessly integrating robust risk and compliance frameworks, we ensure efficiency and a risk-aware culture, enabling better business decisions aligned with financial and business strategies. Our commitment is to safeguard and strengthen our people, customer relationships, assets, and the IKEA brand, securing strong financial performance within a safe, secure, and fully compliant environment.

As the Country Data Privacy Leader for IKEA Australia & New Zealand, you’ll be responsible for implementing the Data Privacy strategy in the market. This includes driving compliance with relevant internal steering documents and regulatory requirements in Data Privacy within the country organisation to protect the brand. You will operationalise Privacy by Design procedures and embed a Privacy by Design culture in the market. Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Guides and executes complex operational requirements and activities essential for upholding our data privacy strategy.
• Maintains and updates local risk registers, ensuring they accurately reflect our current risk landscape.
• Conducts thorough assessments to identify requirements for new and existing solutions, processes, and data management activities, ensuring alignment with our security and privacy goals.
• Manages local suppliers through their full lifecycle, from selection to ongoing monitoring, ensuring their adherence to data privacy standards.
• Leads collaborative efforts with business partners to foster a robust data privacy maturity and governance framework across the organisation.
• Provides expert guidance on daily data privacy issues, enabling successful navigation and compliance with our steering documents and local Data Privacy legislation.
• Stays current with emerging trends and changes in data privacy legislation, proactively adapting our approach.
• Builds and maintains deep knowledge and expertise in data privacy, serving as a key resource for the market.
• Identifies and implements innovative solutions to address issues and capitalise on opportunities, striving for industry-standard best practices.
• Continuously works to improve our working methods and processes, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in our security and privacy efforts.

You are passionate about creating a secure digital experience, bringing a proactive approach to data privacy. You have a solid understanding of privacy by design, knowing how to operationalise it within a local market, and broad knowledge of potential information risks for our organisation, co-workers, customers, and suppliers, along with effective mitigation strategies. You are familiar with IKEA’s business processes, governance structures, IT solutions at Ingka, and proven experience with risk management are key. You are confident leading Data Privacy requirements, providing expert guidance to stakeholders, coordinating diverse activities, and act with integrity and discretion as a trusted business partner. You are a strong and adaptable communicator, and you can effectively interpret technical security audits.

To be considered for this role you will have:

• At least 4 years of experience working with Data Privacy projects or programmes.
• Formal qualifications in legal and/or compliance are highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards such as ISO27001, NIST, etc.
• Expert knowledge of legislation in Australia & New Zealand and the controls needed to ensure compliance.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and promote the business benefits of Data Privacy controls.
• 5 years of leadership experience, with the ability to lead change within a complex organisation.
• Ability to demonstrate a risk-based approach to decisions concerning information security and data privacy.
• Knowledge of the risk management process, including performing risk assessments and advising on needed IT mitigating controls.
• Met expectations in your FY25 end of year performance evaluation.

At IKEA, work is so much more than a job. Come join us!