Data Protection Manager

Your role

Data Protection Manager will be a member of Regulatory Compliance within Linklaters’ global Legal & Risk team. The Linklaters Legal & Risk department manages the firm’s risk worldwide, both within the Practice and Business Teams, to ensure that Linklaters’ reputation is preserved and professional rules are complied with.

This role will manage global data protection and privacy issues for the firm and serve as an advisor to the leadership in relation to the same.

This role will act as the main point of contact for business teams across the firm as required in relation to data protection and privacy matters.

• The role is focused on data protection, privacy and information law matters, and will involve assisting the Director, Global Regulatory Compliance, with the management of all issues arising out of internal data protection and privacy compliance and regulatory matters across Linklaters globally, working with the Legal & Risk team, local Risk Partners, business teams.
• In this regard the role influences Linklaters’ global compliance with applicable data protection and privacy laws and regulations, and professional rules and standards. It helps manage the firm’s risk worldwide, within the practice, partnership and business teams, to ensure that Linklaters’ reputation is preserved and relevant laws and regulations and professional rules and standards are complied with.
• The role requires a significant degree of judgement in balancing the firm’s legal obligations with its commercial imperatives and working under the direction of the Director, Global Regulatory Compliance, in balancing those needs.
• The role will have an element of responsibility for identifying areas for improvement in privacy and data protection governance and processes and driving forwards improvements across the firm globally.

The role may also involve managing relationships and working with external counsel for the provision of privacy and data protection advice and services.

This role will have line management responsibilities over two team members.

Your experience

•           CIPP-E qualification

•           Graduate in Law; Economics; Audit/ Compliance/ Internal Control; or similar

•           5+ years of relevant experience in the field of data privacy.

•           In depth knowledge of data protection requirements within the European Union and awareness of data protection requirements globally.

•           Hands on experience of advising on data protection and privacy laws, including experience of operationalising legal requirements either working alone or with the business to ensure requirements are embedded into business processes.

Key relationships

All within Global Legal & Risk, including Director, Global Regulatory Compliance and lawyers in Regulatory Compliance (London and Warsaw) with regard to RC processes, junior team members of Regulatory Compliance in Warsaw. Anyone in the practice or business teams worldwide raising privacy issues with the Regulatory Compliance team.

Linklaters and the Team

Linklaters are a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people  who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set.

We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Key Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you will be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

Private medical care

Free in-house fitness centre

Finance

Life insurance

Lifestyle

Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel

Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card.

Wide range of training opportunities

What sets us apart

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience a