Counsel

INTRODUCTION

JOB PURPOSE

The role is to advise on all GDPR and data protection law issues, including supporting on global data protection compliance projects. The purpose of the role is to provide high quality, commercially focused, value added advice to support the execution of key business strategies globally.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Providing day to day legal support to the business on business projects, seeking advice in local jurisdictions where appropriate and directly delivering GDPR/data protection advice.
• Reviewing, negotiating, drafting and advising on data protection issues and data protection clauses in commercial agreements including IT agreements, services agreements and marketing agreements.
• Advising on GDPR-related matters including security breach reporting, privacy impact assessments, data subject rights requests, data transfers, direct marketing, data retention and GDPR compliance in business-as-usual projects (including marketing and e-commerce activities).
• Obtaining local law advice on global data protection matters and advising the business accordingly.

PERSONAL PROFILE

• Strong academic credentials essential.
• Strong experience in data protection (specifically GDPR) essential.
• In-house experience preferable.
• Knowledge of languages an advantage.
• Qualified solicitor with two years of PQE from a major firm.
• Candidate should have specialised in data protection law upon qualification (either exclusively or a mixed commercial/data protection law background) and must have a strong knowledge of the GDPR and a high level awareness of some other key data protection laws globally.
• Candidate should be able to operate with minimum supervision and in direct contact with internal clients.
• Experience in dealing with cross border matters involving working with foreign lawyers an advantage.

FOOTER

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.

Posting Notes: United Kingdom || Not Applicable || Leeds || CORPORATE AFFAIRS || CORPORATE - LEGAL || n/a ||