Information Protection Lead Consultant

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the European discovery and requirements gathering for Information Protection
• Translate business, legal, regulatory and operational needs into programme deliverables, controls and priorities
• Own the European delivery roadmap, dependencies, risks and stakeholder engagement approach
• Coordinate and align UK and European stakeholders across Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Security, IT, HR and the business
• Define European DLP requirements, policies and use cases, including priority data types and protection needs
• Support information classification, sensitivity labelling and information handling design
• Gather and design Records Retention and information life cycle management requirements with Legal, Compliance and Records Management
• Shape business change and adoption planning-communications, readiness, training and accountability models
• Provide subject matter expertise on Microsoft Purview capabilities and support target operating model definition

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience leading Information Protection, DLP, Information Governance or Records Management in large, complex organisations
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview (Information Protection, DLP, Sensitivity Labels, Records Management and Data Lifecycle Management)
• Demonstrable experience leading enterprise requirements gathering and solution design
• Confidence working directly with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Security and business stakeholders
• Strong understanding of data classification, governance and information life cycle management
• Experience delivering change and stakeholder engagement through large-scale technology/compliance transformations
• Strong programme and stakeholder management across multiple functions, countries and seniority levels
• Ability to translate regulatory and business requirements into practical controls

Additional information:

• This role is expected to move from discovery and design into later delivery phases.