Regional Privacy Officer - OCA

Working Location: MASSACHUSETTS, WESTBOROUGH 

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid

 

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Job Description

Olympus is a global leader in medical technology and life sciences. As data becomes increasingly significant for its own products and product development, Olympus strives to have a modern, efficient and sustainable data privacy organization that demonstrates a strong commitment to protecting the rights and freedoms of all employees, partners, customers and patients when it comes to handling their personal data. For this purpose, Olympus relies on strong global governance, clear roles and responsibilities, and uniform implementation of privacy requirements worldwide. Olympus' ambition is to make privacy a quality-assured routine, and therefore to bring the Privacy organization close with the business. Our privacy professionals are committed to these goals.

 

The Regional Privacy Officer (RPO) is responsible for representing, implementing and enforcing the organization’s Global Privacy Program in the Americas region including but not limited to monitoring program compliance, supporting and advising on daily operations of the program, ensuring successful business partnering, contributing to global privacy initiatives such as strategy, rules & regulations, knowledge enhancement, communications and technology. The RPO shall establish processes for investigation and tracking incidents and breaches and insuring data subjects’ rights in compliance with applicable privacy laws. The incumbent shall also assume the role of a Data Protection Officer (DPO) (as appropriate and/or required by law). They may also be mandated to represent the Privacy or entire Governance, Risk & Compliance function (which Privacy belongs to) as a Business Partner for other (global) business functions.

Job Duties

In close alignment with the Global Chief Privacy Officer:

• Reports into the Global Chief Privacy Officer and maintains a dotted reporting line into the Regional Head of GRC.  Acts as most senior full-time privacy professional on regional level, and works with business colleagues as business partner, including globally.
• Leads a team of regional (and where applicable, global) Privacy professionals and a network of external partners.  Is a standing member of the global Privacy Leadership Team as well as the regional GRC Leadership Team.  Leads individual initiatives and contributes to respective global working groups.
• Is responsible for the regional implementation of global privacy initiatives.  Monitors the progress and completion of regional and local operational privacy tasks as part of the global Privacy Program.  Executes globally initiated privacy reviews on regional and local level and creates reports.  Launches and coordinates regional privacy initiatives and leads activities supporting and enabling global functions, projects, or initiatives.
• Guides, instructs and supervises regional (and where applicable, global) Privacy professionals and, potentially, other GRC Business Partners on legal and technical privacy, as well as other GRC related matters with relevance to the region or a certain function.
• Overseas and reviews regional and local data processing practices and advises together with the regional (and where applicable, global) privacy professionals regional se