About the Role
As the Senior Privacy Manager, you will provide expert leadership and advice on privacy risk management, assurance, and compliance, helping ensure nbn meets its regulatory obligations while building and maintaining the trust of customers and stakeholders. You will guide the design and implementation of privacy initiatives, embed best-practice privacy frameworks and processes, and support the effective management of privacy risks and incidents. You will also represent the Privacy function in key forums, contribute to enterprise-wide decision making, and help shape a culture where privacy is considered an essential part of how we innovate, operate, and deliver for customers. In this role, you will influence the development of solutions that address emerging privacy risks, including those arising from new technologies and evolving regulations. Through strong collaboration and a continuous improvement mindset, you will support strategic programs and operational initiatives that strengthen privacy maturity across nbn, ensuring privacy remains a core capability that enables innovation, transparency, and long-term business success.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert leadership and advice on privacy risk management, assurance, and compliance.
- Guide the design and implementation of privacy initiatives.
- Embed best-practice privacy frameworks and processes.
- Support the effective management of privacy risks and incidents.
- Represent the Privacy function in key forums.
- Contribute to enterprise-wide decision making.
- Influence the development of solutions that address emerging privacy risks.
- Support strategic programs and operational initiatives that strengthen privacy maturity.
Requirements
- Experienced privacy professional with a strong understanding of Australian privacy legislation, policy, and compliance obligations.
- Experience gained within a large commercial, government, or highly regulated environment.
- Capable of operating and influencing in complex matrix managed organisations.
- Ability to effectively balance privacy risk with commercial and operational priorities.
- Provide pragmatic advice that supports sound business outcomes.
- Navigate ambiguity, solve problems effectively, and develop practical solutions to complex privacy challenges.
- Collaborative, adaptable, and build trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Highly developed communication, collaboration and influencing skills.
- Confidently engage with senior leaders.
- Translate complex concepts into clear advice.
- Drive outcomes through partnership and shared purpose.
- Motivated by continuous improvement.
- Passionate about helping organisations create responsible, transparent, and customer-focused approaches to managing personal information.
- Full working rights in Australia.
Skills
- Privacy risk management
- Privacy assurance
- Privacy compliance
- Regulatory obligations
- Stakeholder engagement
- Privacy initiatives
- Privacy frameworks
- Privacy processes
- Risk management
- Incident management
- Enterprise decision making
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Influencing
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full time
- Flexible working arrangements
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Equal employment
- Great training
- Flexible working arrangements
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave
About the Company
- nbn is building and connecting Australia’s best fibre infrastructure into homes and businesses, plus places and things, everywhere.
- We’re continuing to create Australia’s network—a network made for more.
- Transforming the way people do things.
Equal Opportunity
- nbn is committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace where everyone can feel heard, valued, and respected.
- We believe diverse perspectives are the key to unlocking greater outcomes and encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures.
- We have a Reconciliation Action Plan, Accessibility & Inclusion Plan, offer 18 weeks of paid parental leave, are a Pride in Diversity Platinum Employer, and have active employee-led diversity pillars.
- We champion equal opportunities for all employees.
- If you have any accessibility requirements and would like to discuss adjustments for the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to contact us by emailing recruitment@nbnco.com.au or calling our Recruitment Accessibility Enquiry Line at +61 2 8918 9990.
