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Data Protection & Privacy – Associate Director

  • Location: City of London
  • Salary: 80.000 - 90.000 + Bonus + Benefits per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted almost 2 years ago

  • Sector: Compliance, Risk Management
  • Contact: Jake Kelly
  • Contact Email: jkelly@merje.com
  • Contact Phone: 02036371604
  • Expiry Date: 18 June 2022
  • Job Ref: JK/19059

​Job Description:

MERJE are working with a fast growing Top 10 consultancy who are looking for an Associate Director in Data Protection & Privacy to lead and shape their international team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the delivery and management of projects and programmes globally, providing

technical and hands on support

• Financial and budgetary responsibilities for the service line and engagements

• Client and stakeholder development and management

• Leading and / or being actively involved in business development initiatives / activities to help

identify and scope opportunities on new/existing clients

• Development of propositions in line with market needs and trends

• Support and develop the deployment of our privacy ‘go to market' strategy

• Support our presence and growth in targeted markets and developing thought leadership

materials

• Acting as the SME on all privacy and data protection related matters

• Monitor and evaluate evolving laws, rules, regulations, and guidance to help maintain

compliance and strategic alignment

• Keeping up to date with local and national business and economic issues

• Advising on all aspects of data protection compliance

• Advising on risk management

• Drafting data protection policies and procedures

• Provide subject matter expertise and insight on a variety of privacy-related programs,

initiatives, and workflows

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Key Requirements:

• Professional services orientation - must have the ability to build stakeholder relationships, articulate privacy matters to various stakeholders and communicate confidently to stakeholders

at various levels

• Strong people, programme and project management experience with proven ability of helping

to drive issues to resolution, strong independent judgment, and ability to evaluate risk

• Strong problem-solving abilities, flexible, able to navigate transformational growth and ambiguity, show initiative and anticipate needs, and able to focus on multiple workstreams at once

• Well organised and able to deal with large amounts of information and have excellent attention to detail

• Experience in drafting and delivering proposals to a varied stakeholder

• Experience in business development initiatives / activities including publishing written work e.g.

blogs, articles, newsletters, brochures and website content

• Experience in reviewing documents and reports of others and providing feedback

• A good understanding of technology, privacy and security issues affecting businesses across

industries

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For more information on this role please contact Jake Kelly on 0203 637 1604 or jkelly@merje.com

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