Counsel, Privacy Compliance and Operations, Americas

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What will you do? 

A day in the life of a Privacy Compliance and Operations Counsel at VF looks a little like this.

As Counsel, Privacy Compliance and Operations, Americas, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with privacy laws and regulations for the Americas, alongside an accomplished and supportive team of colleagues, on behalf of some of the world’s most beloved and iconic brands. You will make a difference for millions of VF consumers and thousands of VF employees by ensuring that their personal information is responsibly governed and their data privacy rights are respected.   

The primary responsibility of this role is to provide in-house privacy expertise and hands-on support of the Privacy Program, throughout VF and its brands, for the Americas region. The mission of the Privacy Program is to ensure an enterprise-wide approach to consumer and employee privacy that reflects strong data ethics and a commitment to transparency and integrity. The mission is implemented by applying Privacy by Design principles to drive a strong culture of compliance and respect for privacy rights as well as procedural rigor that results in consistency and reliability. This role will work with a wide range of VF teams, including Information Security, Digital Technology, Strategy, Data Insights & Analytics, Ethics & Compliance, Risk Management, and Legal Department colleagues, as well as exciting brands like Vans®, The North Face®, Timberland®, Timberland PRO®, Dickies®, Altra®, Smartwool®, Icebreaker®, JanSport®, Eastpak®, and Kipling® to help shape VF's privacy initiatives and to accelerate its regional implementation.

This role provides legal research, analysis, advice, guidance, training, program management, and other assistance as directed by the Associate General Counsel, Commercial, Americas. This role will have a direct report.

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more. 

• Serve as an ambassador for Privacy by Design throughout VF and its brands, conducting training sessions and guiding teams on a wide variety of projects involving the processing of consumer or employee personal information.
• Assist in developing and executing policies, workstreams, strategies and tactics for the Privacy Program to best align with rapidly changing legal requirements, best practices, policies, and VF's evolving business models.
• Advance multiple privacy program workstreams and projects at the same time, while managing deadlines and competing priorities. Build strategic partnerships with clients, colleagues, vendors, and counterparties in multiple regions of the world, to ensure early engagement with the Privacy Program team to align business activities with VF policies, legal requirements, and best practices.
• Identify requirements of applicable data protection laws and regulations and coordinate with privacy counsel in EMEA and APAC to ensure proper data processing and transfer between jurisdictions.
• Conduct privacy impact assessments, develop practical risk mitigation strategies, and communicate them to stakeholders.
• Develop privacy program training materials and proactively implement steps to generate privacy awareness throughout all levels of the organization.
• Handle escalations of Data Subject Requests and work with stakeholders to ensure that data registries are updated as new data processing initiatives are implemented.
• Support other attorneys on the Commercial team to facilitate the efficient negotiation of regional/national/global agreements to ensure that the selection of suppliers and services, and the l