Head of Consent

Reporting to the Commercial Operations & Technology Director

Working within Commercial Operations & Technology

Your role: 
As Head of Consent, you will define and deliver a forward-thinking consent strategy, that encompasses compliance requirements and maps them to actionable initiatives that can be delivered across our brands. This role requires an exceptional collaborator who has a passion for Adtech & data privacy, and the ability to create and deliver a consent management strategy to support & build the News UK digital business.

Key Responsibilities of the role:

• Coordinate and manage consent-related projects, ensuring that CMP architecture & configurations are optimised and strategic projects are effectively delivered.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business (Data Protection, Product, Data Technology, Commercial Data, Adtech & Data Governance) to develop and implement compliance processes, and leverage privacy-enhancing tools and long-term strategies for user consent management.

• Develop strategies to ensure News UK complies with its legal and regulatory obligations, regarding user consent; whilst still developing initiatives that create commercial advantage.

• Working with Data Governance, Technology and Data Protection, ensure all partners and vendors adhere to data privacy requirements & correct consent signalling. 

• Day-to-day management & ownership of the CMP relationship.

• Ensures cookie and tag governance policies, programs, and processes are consistently implemented and honoured across the organisation.

• Represent News UK privacy compliance to commercial partners, agencies, customers and wider industry groups.

• Work closely with the Group Data Protection Officer, to ensure compliance requirements relating to user consent are implemented promptly.

• Assist with the management of user and regulatory complaints relating to the CMP.

• Work with Technology teams to ensure that downstream uses of user personal data by technology and marketing teams are compliant.   

What we are looking for from you:

• 3+ years experience within digital publishing, Adtech or an associated business, involving collaboration with senior stakeholders from various business functions.

• Experience in technology engineering would be beneficial.

• Good knowledge of data protection law, including; the EU ePrivacy Directive, UK PEC Regulations, and UK/EU GDPR. 

• Good understanding of US data protection rules, relating to user consent, including CCPA. 

• A solid understanding of the impact of new user ID technologies and competitive privacy-related activities to ensure a progressive consent strategy is envisioned, communicated and delivered.

• Demonstrable experience in delivering technology projects and managing ongoing relationships with third-party vendors and their platforms.

• Proven ability to set strategic objectives and sell those to senior management. 

• Understanding of technical aspects of CMP implementation.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sports, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive.  Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like.  Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.  

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I  strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes.  We also have 11 employee-led networks. 

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes: 

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling 

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.  

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.