Privacy Counsel

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In this role you are responsible for providing legal advice on standard and recurring matters, ensuring timely and accurate responses to internal queries. This role is part of the Privacy, Data & Tech Law Team in Group Legal, and requires you to act as the privacy, data and tech law point of contact for the appropriate business leaders and their teams, advise them, as a subject matter expert on privacy, data protection and digital regulations, maintain privacy compliance documentation, conducting privacy by design assessments, and provide all other privacy compliance support needed by the applicable businesses. In this role you need to stay updated on legal developments in the field of privacy and data protection as well as digital regulations that have a critical impact on the relevant businesses assigned to you, and collaborate with other privacy counsels in drafting, reviewing and maintaining Philips privacy compliance standards and guidelines.

Your role:

• Act as privacy legal point of contact for the appropriate business leaders and their teams and inform them of their privacy compliance obligations pursuant to Philips privacy policies and applicable data protection law.
• Support the implementation of the Central Privacy Compliance Program to facilitate compliance of the relevant business(es) assigned to you with Philips Privacy policies and standards, and applicable data protection laws. Provide expert support and consultancy to promote and facilitate privacy compliance.
• Implement, oversee and monitor Central Privacy Compliance Program activities such as policies and procedures; standards; guidelines; and tools within the relevant business or function assigned to you. This also includes drafting and supporting the implementation of privacy notices, consent statements, data retention standards and other privacy compliance controls within your relevant business(es).
• Identify personal data processing activities carried out by the relevant business or function assigned to you and execute privacy compliance assessments (when required).  Maintain up to date processing registry (Controller and Processor) of the relevant business(es).
• Drive and embed privacy by design controls into the business processes, quality management systems, products and propositions of your relevant business or function.
• Provide strategic advice to your relevant business on all relevant high impact products and solutions as well as support in implementing on requirements under new regulations (e.g., Children’s data processing and age verification; EU Data Act; App Store Accountability laws).  
• Identify specific training needs - create (tailor) and deliver privacy training to the Responsible Executives (or their delegates) and to personnel of the relevant business(es) with permanent or regular access to personal data or who is anyhow involved in the processing of personal data.
• When required by internal standards/procedures, provide privacy legal support in the due diligence of third parties (such as when selecting third party Processors or during M&A transactions).
• Act as Privacy Investigation Lead in response to potential personal data breaches per established protocol and documentation requirements.
• Upon request, provide privacy compliance support for the fulfilment of data subject requests (or privacy-related complaints) related to the relevant business or function assigned to you.
• Work effectively with any internal stakeholders necessary to fulfill the above tasks and create a good collaborative working relationship with key stakeholders.
• When needed, participate in the improvement of the Central Privacy Compliance Program by actively leading or working within a team project (e.g. for the implementation of a new privacy law in the relevant business or function assigned to you), providing feedback and/or recommending enhancements.
• Identify and conduct gap assessments on regulations impacting digital products, solutions and platforms that have an impact on the relevant businesses assigned to you (e.g., ecommerce directive, consumer rights directive). Support in identifying mitigation actions and drafting proposed changes to terms and conditions, terms of use, etc., for the relevant businesses assigned to you.   

You're the right fit if:

• Philips is looking for a lawyer who has a minimum of 3 years’ experience within a legal or compliance role in the field of privacy and data protection.
• Knowledge and understanding of evolving digital regulations in key markets.
• Legal background required Masters (LLM) in law.
• Comprehensive knowledge of EU and U.S. data protection regulatory requirements.
• Ability to perform high-level work on a wide variety of privacy and data protection matters, and values teamwork and commitment. We expect you to be a team player who is determined to achieve high quality-oriented results, in a collaborative manner.
• You are able and willing to take rational but bold decisions under time pressure.
• You are comfortable with complicated matters and able to work independently. 

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.​ Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.​

This role is an office role.

About Philips

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