Compliance & Ethics Counsel Assoc Manager - NRR 3923

Role Summary

• Support legal professionals and internal business teams by providing data privacy advice on internal applications and analytics initiatives, and coordinating legal reviews from a broad legal perspective (beyond data privacy)

• Reviewing legal assessments questionnaires, drafting data privacy assessments and initiative summary decks.
• Legal research on data privacy laws and regulations in jurisdictions, at global level.
• Work autonomously on low-risk initiative, with supervision from senior counsels for medium and high-risk initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Global Data Privacy team, in connection with data privacy issues involved in the Advisory Function.
• 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 data privacy area and perform legal research.
• Draft guidance materials and legal document templates for internal us. Provide training sessions or create training materials for other areas.
• Participate in required trainings and work sessions.
• Report to Advisory Function Lead or a designee, and GLN Core supervisor.

Specific Responsibilities

• Act as the legal area coordinator/contact for cross legal areas reviews related to internal data processing globally e.g. platform, application, tool and analytic initiatives.
• Obtain a deep understanding about the internal initiative from a technical perspective to be able to provide relevant legal advice.
• Identify impacted legal areas and pre-assess the initiative 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 initiative.
  • 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 initiative managers and leads (business stakeholders).
• Assist in dealing with any legal operational issues (e.g. review changes to global policies, assist with those working on works council notifications, etc.).
• Generate reusable tools and propose improvements for repeatable tasks.
• Support Advisory Function within the Global Data Privacy Team and communicate and liaise regularly with different internal legal teams and stakeholders.
• Perform presentations about the project updates to legal colleagues and project stakeholders.

Supervise Level 9 and below (as required).

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Holds a law degree and experience in data privacy matters for at least 5 years. 
• English language proficiency. Other languages may be an advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise in data privacy laws. Strong legal advice and drafting skills.
• IAPP certifications such as CIPP/E or similar are desired
• General understanding or ability to understand general legal issues relating to employment, IP, artificial intelligence, confidential information, contracts, litigation, corporate investigations, cybersecurity, marketing, trade compliance, and ethics.
• Demonstrate sound judgment, ability to make decisions and an elevated level of common sense.
• Ability to influence, strong executive presence. Ability to collaborate effectively with global and local legal colleagues across all functions.
• Demonstrate strong project/program management and operational skills to lead cross-functional projects, especially in a multi-cultural environment.
• Strong time management, prioritization and organizational skills.
• IT skills and confidence learning new technology.

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