Privacy Operations Manager

The Privacy Operations Manager supports global privacy operations with a focus on practical execution, privacy engineering, tooling, automation, and scalable workflow design. This hands-on role helps operate and continuously improve the lifecycle of privacy assessments, records of processing activities, data subject requests, consent and preference processes, cookie and tracking governance, incident support, reporting, and privacy operations documentation.

The ideal candidate combines strong global privacy experience with technical curiosity, operational discipline, and the ability to work closely with Legal, Cybersecurity, IT, Enterprise Architecture, HR, Procurement, Digital, and regional business teams to build efficient, auditable, and business-ready privacy processes across Tenneco’s global operations.

• ◆Manage day-to-day privacy operations intake, triage, routing, follow-up, and closure for matters assigned to the Privacy Office, ensuring clear ownership, timely status updates, and audit-ready documentation.
• ◆Operate and improve the lifecycle for DPIAs, PIAs, LIAs, TIAs, ROPAs, data mapping, vendor privacy reviews, and AI or automated decision-making assessments, with emphasis on consistent process, quality, evidence, and timely remediation.
• ◆Serve as a hands-on privacy operations and tooling lead by configuring, administering, improving, or helping implement privacy management, GRC, workflow, data mapping, DSR, consent, preference, cookie, reporting, or evidence management tools.
• ◆Build efficient and repeatable workflows using available technology, including Microsoft 365 tools, Power Automate, Power BI, Excel, SharePoint, workflow management systems, ticketing tools, dashboards, templates, playbooks, and structured repositories.
• ◆Partner with IT, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Digital, and business teams to translate privacy

into practical system, process, data flow, access, retention, logging, consent, and data minimization controls.

• ✓Support privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default integration in technology projects, applications, platforms, analytics, AI use cases, employee tools, vendor solutions, and business process changes.
• ✓Manage or support global data subject request operations, including intake, identity verification coordination, scoping, fulfillment tracking, response support, exception handling, SLA monitoring, and evidence retention.
• ✓Maintain and improve ROPA and data mapping processes, including data flow documentation, system-of-record information, business owner follow-up, processing purpose, data category, retention, transfer, and control information.
• ✓Support consent, preference, cookie, tracking technology, and digital privacy operations by coordinating with website, marketing, IT, legal, and business teams to document requirements, track issues, and improve operational controls.
• ✓Support cross-border data transfer operations by preparing and maintaining transfer documentation, TIA inputs, vendor transfer records, intra-group transfer materials, and related evidence.
• ✓Support privacy incident response operations, including intake, fact gathering, documentation, workflow coordination, notification analysis support, remediation tracking, and after-action documentation.
• ✓Develop privacy operations metrics, dashboards, KPIs, KRIs, and recurring reports covering assessment cycle time, request volume, SLA performance, remediation progress, risk backlog, incident trends, and tool or workflow effectiveness.
• ✓Identify process gaps, manual workarounds, recurring delays, data quality issues, and opportunities to simplify, automate, or improve privacy operations across regions and functions.
• ✓Prepare operating procedures, job aids, process maps, training materials, status reports, and leadership-ready materials that make privacy operations easier to understand, execute, measure, and sustain.
• ✓Provide practical first-line privacy operations support and guidance to business and technical teams, escalating legal, regulatory, high-risk, or novel matters to the leadership as appropriate.

JOB

• ✓Bachelor’s degree required; degree in computer science, software engineering, data protection/privacy, cybersecurity, information governance, regulatory compliance, business, or a related field preferred.
• ✓Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree and active license to practice law in at least one jurisdiction strongly preferred but not required.
• ✓8+ years of progressive experience in privacy operations, privacy engineering, privacy compliance, data protection, data governance, cybersecurity, technology risk, legal, regulatory compliance, or related roles, preferably in a multinational organization.
• ✓Strong working knowledge of global privacy and data protec