Senior Legal Counsel, Privacy and Data Protection

🔥 3 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Nielsen

10,000+ employees

Founded 1923

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-02

Media • Data Analytics • Marketing

Nielsen is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides audience measurement and media metrics solutions across various platforms. They offer cross-media measurement services spanning TV, digital, streaming, and audio for more precise media planning and marketing optimization. Nielsen's flagship product, Nielsen ONE, integrates these services to deliver a comprehensive view of audience habits and preferences. Additionally, they offer insights and tools for understanding consumer behavior and optimizing marketing strategies, backed by a robust data infrastructure including big data and panel methodologies. Nielsen also champions diversity and inclusion, emphasizing a culture supported by a diverse workforce and numerous business resource groups.

📋 Description

• Provide sophisticated, practical, and business-oriented legal advice on EU/EEA privacy and data protection matters across Nielsen’s products, services, commercial relationships, and internal operations • Independently manage complex privacy workstreams and support Nielsen’s European privacy program • Serve as a trusted advisor to local sales and business teams • Provide senior legal guidance on EU/EEA privacy compliance, data governance, and risk mitigation • Lead smaller projects and complex workstreams and act as a resource for less experienced colleagues • Draft, review, and negotiate data protection exhibits, data processing agreements, data sharing and data use agreements, data transfer arrangements, and related privacy provisions • Support sales and business teams on privacy aspects of customer agreements, proposals, product offerings, data services, partnerships, and commercial opportunities • Conduct and oversee privacy, transfer, legitimate interest, and other risk assessments • Conduct privacy due diligence on third parties, vendors, customers, and strategic partners • Advise on adtech, audience measurement, analytics, identity, cookies, pixels, SDKs, targeted advertising, consent management, data monetization, and media and marketing data practices • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Information Security, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, and Legal stakeholders • Support communications with data protection authorities and supervisory authorities regarding inquiries, consultations, complaints, audits, filings, investigations, and incidents • Support privacy incident and data breach response, data subject rights escalations, regulatory inquiries, and audits • Improve privacy program policies, procedures, playbooks, templates, training, records of processing, data inventories, retention requirements, and compliance reporting • Monitor EU/EEA and national privacy law and enforcement developments and communicate recommendations

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience practicing privacy, data protection, technology, commercial, or related legal work in-house, with a track record of producing high-quality independent work • Law degree or equivalent legal qualification • Qualification or admission in the UK is required • Deep, practical knowledge of the GDPR and applicable national privacy and data protection laws in at least one relevant European jurisdiction • Experience conducting or overseeing DPIAs/PIAs, transfer impact assessments, legitimate interest assessments, and privacy risk assessments • Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating DPAs, data protection exhibits, and other privacy-related contract terms • Experience advising buyers/customers and sellers/providers of data or services • Experience advising business, sales, product, technology, or commercial teams on complex privacy issues • Experience engaging with or supporting communications to supervisory authorities, regulators, or other public-sector stakeholders is preferred • Strong legal research, writing, negotiation, analytical, and issue-spotting skills • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills • Fluency in an additional European language is a plus • CIPP/E certification is greatly preferred, but not a hard requirement • CIPM, CIPT, or an equivalent privacy credential is a plus • Adtech, martech, media measurement, audience analytics, data licensing, or digital advertising experience is strongly preferred • Knowledge of U.S. privacy and data protection requirements, including U.S. state privacy laws and the CCPA/CPRA, is an advantage • Knowledge of APAC privacy and data protection regulations is an advantage • Familiarity with international data transfers, standard contractual clauses, cross-border data sharing, consent and preference management, privacy management tools, data mapping, and records of processing activities

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits • Varied area of responsibility • Open corporate culture with numerous development opportunities • Ability to work independently in a motivated and friendly team • Opportunities for ownership and personal development • Informal atmosphere in a dynamic media company

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