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Lead Privacy Lawyer

City: Warszawa

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Legal

Step into the world of our Legal and Compliance Function and prepare to be challenged and stretched with a combination of impact, innovation, and excellence.
We go beyond the traditional realms of a legal and compliance function. Transforming ourselves into strategic partners who help drive business growth, mitigating risks, and championing ethical and sustainable practices. Every day, our team deliver on groundbreaking transactions and navigate complex regulatory landscapes that help our organisation make a positive societal impact.
Join us, and you'll be collaborating towards shared goals, solving complex challenges, and leaving an enduring legacy.

Your responsibilities

• Support EU IMEX with projects and strategic initiatives where specialist DP expertise is required.
• Support execution of global projects, focusing on those which trigger DPIAs, in order to mitigate DP risks, while supporting innovation.
• Support the DP Privacy Champion network, in collaboration with GPO.
• Support with the enablement programme to upskill and evolve IMEX and wider Legal capability on DP.
• Develop and manage toolkits to allow teams to self-serve on lower BAU activity.
• Build valued relationships with EU Heads of Privacy and the Regional Legal Directors, as well as with leads of key CHQ functions.
• Work in partnership with the wider Ethics and Compliance function to ensure controls are monitored, with gaps remediated.
• Stay informed about emerging trends, best practices, and legal developments in the field of data protection and privacy, advising senior management on potential risks and opportunities.

The experience we're looking for

• Experience (5+ PQE) in corporate legal roles, with a focus on data protection, privacy law and compliance within multinational corporations, preferably in the FMCG industry.
• Demonstrable experience in execution of DP advice, balanced with other legal and business considerations.
• Able to manage risk between compliance and business opportunities in order to leverage opportunities, without materially affecting risk.
• Experience of partnering with IMEX teams to support innovation opportunities to help drive NR, whilst mitigating risk in a proportionate manner.
• Strong project management skills, ideally with demonstrated experience leading complex global data projects from conception to implementation.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.
• High ethical standards, integrity, and a commitment to promoting a culture of compliance and accountability within the company.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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