Regional Privacy Governance & PMO Lead (NAM)

Schneider Electric•Boston, MA

3h•Hybrid

About The Position

Schneider Electric is hiring a Regional Privacy Governance & PMO Lead for North America (NAM), described as a Manager, Data & AI Risk Management. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, or Boston, Massachusetts, on a hybrid basis, this role partners with NAM Privacy leadership to translate global privacy frameworks, priorities, and regulatory developments into coordinated regional action. The position establishes the operating rhythm linking local privacy teams, Legal, Cybersecurity, business stakeholders, and global Privacy Governance. The role provides regional visibility and accountability by maintaining governance calendars, tracking actions and risks, developing KPIs and dashboards, monitoring implementation plans, and following issues through to resolution. It also builds and supports an active NAM privacy community, strengthening the network and information flow needed for effective privacy governance across a complex multinational organization. Success means bringing structure, visibility, and accountability to privacy activities across NAM. Regional Privacy leadership should be able to see current activities, outstanding actions and owners, progress against commitments, risks and gaps, and where escalation is needed. The role also helps local teams implement privacy requirements while maintaining alignment with the global privacy framework. This is a full-time position. The stated U.S. annual pay range is USD 142,400–213,600, including base pay and short-term incentives. Schneider Electric describes its total rewards package as including medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance; Benefit Bucks; flexible work arrangements; paid family leaves; well-being programs; 12 holidays and 15 days of paid time off per year; base salary and incentives; company share ownership; a 401(k) with match; career development and learning resources; volunteer leave; and military leave benefits.

Requirements

Significant experience in privacy governance, compliance operations, risk, PMO, or a related field; ideally within a large multinational organization.
Strong knowledge of privacy operations, frameworks, and controls.
Experience translating privacy or compliance requirements into practical governance, monitoring, reporting, and action plans.
Experience monitoring privacy operational activities, including privacy incidents and individual-rights requests.
Strong program and project management skills, including action tracking, dependency management, deadlines, risk management, and escalation.
Hands-on experience developing dashboards, KPIs, metrics, management reporting, and compliance calendars.
Strong analytical skills and ability to turn complex information into concise, actionable leadership insights.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to coordinate and influence diverse stakeholders across functions and geographies without relying on direct authority.
Ability to work independently, bring structure to ambiguity, and proactively drive actions forward.
High standards of confidentiality, judgment, reliability, organization, and attention to detail.
A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

Own and coordinate the NAM privacy governance calendar, reviews, action tracking, decisions, deadlines, and escalation process.
Maintain a consolidated view of regional privacy priorities, initiatives, obligations, risks, dependencies, and remediation activities.
Coordinate with local teams to establish actions, owners, and deadlines, and follow through to completion.
Monitor local privacy implementation plans, controls, and supporting evidence.
Identify gaps, delays, or unclear ownership and ensure they are escalated appropriately.
Provide structured regional input into global privacy governance and executive reporting.
Develop and maintain NAM privacy dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and trend analysis.
Provide governance visibility into privacy incidents, including volumes, status, response milestones, overdue actions, and lessons learned.
Maintain consolidated visibility of individual-rights requests, including volumes, ownership, response times, and ageing.
Turn operational information into concise leadership insights about trends, risks, recurring issues, and areas requiring action.
Maintain accurate action registers, decision logs, implementation records, and governance evidence.
Support NAM implementation of global privacy policies, processes, tools, and initiatives.
Translate new or changing privacy requirements into structured regional actions and implementation plans.
Track adoption and effectiveness of privacy practices, including records of processing, consent governance, privacy risk assessments, and relevant contractual controls.
Support privacy assurance activities, internal audits, and remediation plans.
Identify capability gaps or adoption challenges and coordinate support with Privacy Governance and subject matter experts.
Build and maintain a NAM network across local Privacy, Legal, Cybersecurity, Digital, business, and functional stakeholders.
Run regular regional privacy forums covering regulatory developments, operational priorities, lessons learned, and global initiatives.
Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability building across the NAM privacy community.
Create communication and governance structures that enable information, risks, and actions to flow between local teams and regional and global privacy leadership.