Manager Privacy Counsel in Herzogenaurach bei Adidas

Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Manager Global Privacy is tasked with the delivery and completion of all activities included in the services provided by Global Privacy (data protection impact assessments, privacy contracts, Global Privacy driven projects or initiatives, external complaints response, etc.). They are responsible for the end-to-end delivery of assigned activities, coordinating and executing independently throughout all phases of the assigned activity and ensures appropriate quality, documentation and communication.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Protection Impact Assessments: Complete and document Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments within the pre-defined framework. Produce, verify and negotiate with internal or external stakeholders necessary deliverables (e.g. data processing agreements) and coordinate with external counsel as necessary.
Privacy Risk Management: Engage with business owners and obtain their commitment for risk mitigation related to risk identified within activities assigned to them.
Personal Data Breaches: Analyse and assess incoming personal data breaches per a pre-defined assessment schema and escalate a verified personal data breach to the Global Privacy management team.
Individual Complaints: Coordinate or execute fact finding related to the history of any complaint and highlight the privacy impact, the root cause and the related risk for adidas and provide a proposal for resonse letters related to complaints submitted by individual persons.
Privacy Trainings: Provide training or awareness activities to special business audiences. Identify and report exisiting needs for training. Create training materials.
Privacy projects: Coordinate the delivery of individual initiatives and execute complex tasks within major projects as assigned. Engage with and support external project or program managers or subject matter experts.

Key Relationships:

Global Privacy Department
Wider Global Privacy Community
Global Legal Function
Peers within the business
Project Managers
Management
External counsel and/or consultants
Suppliers

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Good written and verbal communication skills
Fluent in English and German
Comfortable with information technology topics
Good interpersonal skills, incl. with regard to business diplomacy, sensitivity mediation, influencing, attendance, stakeholder management, communication style and integrity
Diligent working practice
Ability to manage multiple priorities to accomplish assignments simultaneously under tight timelines

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

Law Degree (Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen)
Master degree in law (or equivalent) / alternatively master degree or equivalent in a relevant area / Full law qualification (master degree in law or equivalent & eligible for bar admisstion) a plus
3 years of relevant working experience
Solid and proven record in the area of privacy
Working experience in large companies International working experience a plus
Relevant international privacy certification a plus (CIPP, CIPM, etc.)

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..

OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.

INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.

TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.

INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.

RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

ADIDAS CELEBRATES DIVERSITY, SUPPORTS INCLUSIVENESS AND ENCOURAGES INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION IN OUR WORKPLACE. WE DO NOT TOLERATE THE HARASSMENT OR DISCRIMINATION TOWARD ANY OF OUR APPLICANTS OR EMPLOYEES. WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

JOB TITLE:

Manager Privacy Counsel