Summary: The IT Business Consultant role focuses on enhancing data privacy processes and compliance within a leading university in Tilburg. The position involves collaborating with the Security Team to optimize IT systems and improve personal data handling in line with privacy regulations. Candidates should possess a strong technical background and excellent stakeholder engagement skills. This strategic role is essential for aligning organizational needs with effective data governance solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to projects focused on the technical optimization of privacy processes, particularly regarding data retention periods and data minimization.
• Analyze IT infrastructure and systems to identify improvement and optimization opportunities, aligning with privacy compliance standards.
• Evaluate the performance of existing systems, processes, and data handling methods, proposing practical technical solutions for improvement.
• Design and implement IT solutions for archiving and cleaning up personal data, collaborating closely with the Information and Archive Management teams.
• Understand and analyze organizational needs, translating them into effective technical and process-driven solutions.
• Provide technical advice and support to end-users and internal stakeholders on privacy-related IT solutions.
• Act as a bridge between the IT/Security department and business units, ensuring that privacy and data governance requirements are embedded into system designs and processes.

Key Skills:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role as IT Business Consultant, IT Business Analyst, or Privacy/Compliance-focused IT Consultant.
• Knowledge of IT systems, networks, and architecture.
• Strong understanding of data privacy principles, including GDPR, data retention, and data minimization.
• Analytical mindset — able to assess complex problems and develop practical, actionable solutions.
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical issues to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
• Proactive, self-driven, and collaborative — able to work independently and within cross-functional teams.
• Fluent in Dutch (essential) and good command of English.

Salary (Rate): 85

City: Tilburg

Country: Netherlands

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT