Junior Privacy & Digital Legal Counsel

Job description

The world leader in beauty, L’Oréal is present in 130 countries on five continents. Our 32 international brands have allowed us to devote ourselves solely to one business: beauty, with a mission to provide the best in cosmetics innovation to all women and men around the world. We want to bring beauty to all people. Our ambition by 2020 is to win over another one billion consumers around the world by creating the cosmetic products that meet the infinite diversity of their beauty needs and desires through continued digital innovation. L’Oréal encourages diversity and sustainable, ethical sourcing for all our products and we have reduced our emissions by approx. 50% since 2005.  Our brands are leaders in beauty, and we are looking for you to lead the change you want to see in L’Oréal.

Junior Privacy & Digital Counsel

UK & Ireland Legal Department (Hammersmith)

The Legal Department’s mission is: Be a trusted legal advisor to help grow, run, protect and defend the business, acting with integrity, courage and agility to enable the company’s objectives. Our KPIs are: offer cutting edge legal expertise whilst business partnering, high business satisfaction and effective protection of the company’s assets and reputation. 

YOU WILL...

Reporting into the Head of Data Privacy/Data Protection Officer for L’Oréal UKI, you will work across all business areas including marketing, digital, HR, retail, and IT security. You will support the Head of Data Privacy in providing expert advice and support to the business on all aspects of data protection law, compliance, and best practice. Key data privacy responsibilities include:

 

•Drafting and negotiating commercial agreements relating to data protection, including outsourcing and data transfer agreements.
•Reviewing new projects for data protection risks, and assisting with developing appropriate and pragmatic solutions to ensure risks are mitigated and privacy by design principles are incorporated, including supporting the completion of data privacy impact assessments (where appropriate).
•Supporting business partners in managing data subject requests and data security incidents.
•Supporting the Head of Data Protection in managing local and global governance initiatives.
•Overseeing the development and maintenance of data privacy-related policies and guidance.
•Delivering and supporting a data privacy training and awareness programme.
•Keeping up to date with proposed and actual changes in Regulation or guidance, assessing their impact, and advising relevant teams accordingly.

You will also support the Senior Legal Counsel with IT and digital matters. Key responsibilities include:

 

•Drafting and negotiating all types of IT and digital contracts such as Master digital services agreements, software licence agreements, SaaS and PaaS agreements.
•Working closely with the IT, digital and CMO teams and supporting them with short-term proof of concepts or trials in an agile way.
•Sitting on the digital advisory board that provides input into the prioritisation of digital projects. Participating in agile working scrums and workflows.
•Working with the wider legal team and providing support on digital/IT/tech law as and when required.
•Providing bespoke legal training to the business.

YOU ARE...

Organised: You love a list and have strong planning and organisation skills – with the ability to re-prioritise as required.

Measured: We want to track the success of our campaigns and initiatives so projects must be able to show ROI.

Accurate: You have the ability to work to a high degree of accuracy and meet deadlines.

Entrepreneurial. Every day, you spot opportunities to drive growth for our brand and our customers, making sure the good name of our brand is always protected.

Super creative: Whether it be in overcoming challenges or creating artwork for your channel, creativity is our back bone, and we love new ideas.

Proactive and Open: L’Oreal is for the pioneers, which means embracing new ideas, challenges and change with positivity and a hands on approach.

Teams are the new heroes: There is no better feeling than being part of a successful and dynamic team, so even if you are Superman or Wonder Woman, you recognise that teams are the real heroes.

Only Human: we all make mistakes, but you are not afraid of failure. You learn and show how the experience has helped the business learn for the future and benefitted all.

Ambitious: You crave success and L’Oréal is the ultimate place to achieve your dreams. We will support you all the way and make sure you have the support and development in place to help you succeed.

You. You are real. And you’re true to yourself. We cherish and celebrate diversity so you will feel right at home whoever you are.

YOU HAVE...

•The confidence and experience to make complex decisions at pace, often when working with senior staff.
•Ability to:
•Liaise with other teams as required (e.g. wider legal team, Information Security, Internal Control, Digital) at both a local and global level.
•Digest large amounts of information quickly.
•Work with a substantial degree of autonomy, and re-prioritise your workload as new questions or projects arise.
•Strong interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively at all levels and adopt a flexible style to suit a variety of stakeholders.
•Confidence to build strong networks with, and gain the trust of, colleagues across the business by sharing best practice and bringing a confident and solutions-driven approach.

Key qualifications:

 

•NQ-2+ PQE qualified lawyer.
•Experience advising on privacy and digital in either a well-respected private practice or in-house environment.

•Strong interest and experience in data privacy and digital technology preferred.