Manager, Data Privacy (Remote)

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Work flexibility: Remote Req ID: R566799 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Legal Affairs Travel: 20% Relocation: No

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Job description

oin a global team shaping how privacy is embedded into innovation, operations, and decision-making across the organization. In this role, you will influence enterprise-wide strategy while partnering across Legal, Cybersecurity, and business teams to drive responsible data use. This is a high-impact opportunity to build scalable, risk-based privacy practices that protect people, data, and trust.

What You Will Do

  • Lead implementation and continuous improvement of the global privacy program, including policies, standards, training, and risk-based frameworks
  • Apply and oversee privacy risk assessments (PIA, DPIA, third-party risk, records of processing), ensuring consistent and defensible outcomes
  • Conduct and review data protection impact assessments, escalating high-risk activities and tracking mitigation actions to closure
  • Partner with Legal, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate privacy risks aligned with regulations such as GDPR, LGPD, HIPAA, and CCPA
  • Serve as an escalation and approval point for complex privacy decisions, ensuring proper documentation and governance of risk acceptance
  • Advise regional and divisional teams by translating regulatory requirements and enforcement trends into actionable guidance
  • Drive program performance using KPIs, metrics, and benchmarking to improve compliance effectiveness and audit readiness
  • Support responses to audits, regulatory inquiries, data subject requests, and privacy incidents, ensuring timely and compliant resolution

What you will need:

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
  • Minimum 8 years of professional experience
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in data privacy, data protection, or compliance programs
  • Demonstrated experience applying global privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA)
  • Experience conducting privacy risk assessments such as DPIAs or PIAs

Preferred Qualifications

  • Graduate degree (e.g., Master’s, JD)
  • Professional privacy certification (e.g., CIPP, CIPM, or equivalent)
  • Experience supporting global or multi-region privacy programs
  • Experience with third-party risk management or cross-border data transfer assessments

Additional Information

  • Work arrangement: Hybrid or office-based depending on location
  • Travel: Up to 10% international travel may be required
  • Relocation support: Not specified

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.

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