Contract Specialist - Data Privacy Compliance

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Role Summary:

Support to legal professionals, Data Privacy Compliance tower within the Global DP Team, business teams from corporate functions providing advice and review of internal applications.

• Reviewing legal assessments questionnaires, drafting data privacy assessments and training decks;

• Legal research on data privacy laws and regulations in jurisdictions at global level;

• Works autonomously with supervision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the Global Data Privacy team in connection with data privacy issues involved in Data Privacy Compliance Tower.

• Provide support and advice with an overall aim to ensure compliance with data privacy requirements and corporate standards and policies.

• Follow legal developments in the area and perform legal research;

• Draft guidance materials and legal document templates for internal use;

• Provide training sessions or create training materials for other areas;

• Participate in required trainings and work sessions;

• Report to Global Data Privacy team and GLN Core supervisors and coordinators.

Specific Responsibilities Aligned to Role

• Act as the central legal area coordinator/contact for cross legal areas reviews related to internal data processing globally e.g. platforms, applications, tools and systems.

• Obtain a deep understanding of the program/project from a technical perspective to be able to provide relevant legal advice.

• Identify impacted legal areas and pre-assess the program/project from a broad legal standpoint.

• Share recommendations and knowledge effectively with all legal and operational areas that need to be involved in the assessment of the program/project

• Identify potential areas of legal/compliance vulnerability and risk, develop/implement corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues and provide guidance on how to avoid or deal with such issues from a general legal perspective.

• Collaborate and consult with all legal areas (from a global and local perspective) to ensure key legal/ compliance issues are identified and sent to appropriate channels for investigation and review.

• Consult with other areas (e.g. employee relations, procurement) as needed to identify and resolve any legal compliance issues.

• Review legal advice received from global and local legal counsels, follow-up with questions where necessary and liaise with external legal counsel, if required. Provide consistent and pragmatic recommendations/guidance to program/project managers and leads.

• Assist in dealing with any legal operational issues (e.g. review changes to global policies, co-ordinate changes to employment contracts, assist with works council notifications, etc.).

• Record, maintain and report effectively on all advice received from global and local legal counsels .

• Manage people across all geographies and legal/operational areas to ensure reviews are carried out in a timely manner and outstanding issues are resolved.

• Provide reports on a regular basis, and as directed or requested, to keep Legal Area Coordinator Lead, Project Management, Leadership informed of the legal reviews and compliance efforts.

• Generate reusable tools and repeatable processes