Senior Privacy Specialist

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diverse, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

THE OPPORTUNITY 

This Senior Privacy Specialist position can work remotely within the U.S.

The Senior Privacy Specialist is responsible for supporting the review and design of privacy and compliance controls, mechanisms and protocols across the organization and product line, and will support an important global digital transformation initiative. This team member will work cross-functionally with the Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and Product Teams. The ideal candidate will have a clear ability to coordinate with application and system owners to help them understand and implement privacy by design and compliance obligations and solutions for the full lifecycle of applications and systems, from proof of concept, business analysis and financial modeling, architecture design, user acceptance testing to solution deployment. This person will assist their leadership with ensuring engineering and data privacy solutions and technologies are properly supported, implemented, and sufficiently meets the needs for which they are deployed to protect confidential and proprietary data. This individual will assist in the planning, design, implementation and ongoing support of engineering privacy control systems, compliance and processes to fulfill commercial needs.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON 

• Develop and implement standards, processes and technical solutions to ensure privacy policies are correctly implemented. The implementations should advance compliance with legal and business forms of data processing.
• Work to align advanced technologies and Privacy by Design principles from the first stages of development and collaborate with legal and privacy colleagues to ensure that the data processing meets established regulatory compliance needs. 
• Collaborate with product and system development teams creating new data processing that employ privacy features.
• Analyze and provide design requirements for processing for personal information with a goal of implementing technical solutions to help mitigate privacy vulnerabilities and prevent potential future privacy risks.
• Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications to new or existing software. 
• Guide the development of new privacy products and features, as well as the review of in place products and technology to ensure persistence of privacy controls.
• Identify areas of improvement in local practices relative to managing data privacy.
• Assist with regular privacy assessments of operational processes, identifying, and mitigating risks through effective tools, training, and guidance.
• Assist with tracking categories of privacy threats and vulnerabilities to proactively address potential future variances.
• Communicate program progress, escalations, and issue analysis to key stakeholders.
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