Senior Advisor - Privacy and Data Protection

Enterprise focused :

• Lead and collaborate in the formulation of policies related to collection and processing of personally identifiable information, based on the Privacy & Data Protection Laws of the countries in which the company operates or would like to expand its operations.
• Implement and monitor the data privacy policies and associated processes across functions and business units.
• Proactively partner with functional groups (HR, CAG, CCD, Facilities) to ensure that the adoption of new technologies, processes, services and solutions are compliant with the applicable data privacy regulations
• Assess the development & enhancements of internal processes & systems and recommend privacy related controls.
• Conduct employee awareness on lawful handling of personally identifiable information, as part of their work.
• Identify risks and also plan and implement the risk mitigation plans
• Lead the data breach handling process for effective addressal of privacy related gaps (if any) reported, in the current process & systems.
• Manage the process related to personal data access requests from individuals.
• Assess subcontracting / outsourcing of any processing of personally identifiable information and recommend privacy related controls (including inclusion of appropriate clauses in the vendor contract.
• Liaison with external Privacy and Data Protection Counsel for expert views and audits.
• Identify and implement internal initiatives on Data Privacy.

Client focused :