Job Description

We are looking for a UK Privacy Lead who will be responsible for leading and overseeing the implementation and ongoing operation of the Global Privacy Program in the UK market. The role will report to the Head of Governance, Process Assurance in our Human Health division, with a dotted line to UK Country Leadership team. The incumbent will lead on privacy matters and will manage, through a matrix structure, a network of privacy stewards embedded in all our divisions across the UK. The role will also serve as the primary contact with the Global Privacy Office for bi-directional communication between the GPO and the UK market. The role will also support the EU Data Protection officer with certain DPO related activities for the UK market.

The selected candidate location for this role must be within the UK. Travel for this role will be 5 – 10%.  There will be some travel for assigned internal and external engagements within the UK and may include limited travel for meetings within the EU.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for leading and overseeing the implementation of the Global Privacy Program in the UKMaintain a good understanding of the business goals of the UK Market across multiple organisations within our company, and lead the relevant Privacy elements required to deliver the business goalsUnderstanding our evolving business priorities of the UK Market across multiple organisations and provide Privacy guidance, advice, and issue resolution for the Company’s collection and use of Personal Data to deliver business goalsMaintain a good knowledge of all relevant UK Data Protection Laws and as our companies UK Privacy expert, advise the business and GPO on these lawsSupport the Privacy Stewards in fulfilling the roles and responsibilities of a Privacy Steward for our Group Managed Service Accounts (GMSA) and Animal Health (AH) OrganisationsServe and lead the Privacy Steward role and remain the key contact for the HH organisationServe as the primary contact for privacy related matters for the HH, GMSA and AH Organisations and support Ireland as requiredLead a matrixed network of Privacy Stewards across all relevant legal entities in the UK and monitor the UK DPO mailboxProvide expert Privacy leadership, strategy and expertise to the HH, AH and GMSA and GSF organisations and other UK legal entities as requiredLead and undertake the privacy compliance monitoring activities across the UK and guide the privacy stewards on any remediation tasks where neededPeriodically report to the UK Country Leadership Team on the status of privacy complianceSupport with the review of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) where requiredEnsure all data subject requests (DSR) are actioned accordingly and continue to expand the mapping across the UK, where relevant

Skills & Experience:

A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualifications/experienceCertified Information Privacy Professional - Europe (CIPP/E) is desiredBe willing to undertake the training for Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)To demonstrate a good understanding of all the UK Data Protection lawsTo demonstrate how to balance business objectives against compliance with privacy lawsIt would be desirable to have experience in the pharmaceutical industry, in any role with direct privacy experience, as well as proven experience managing sophisticated, complex cross-organisational program

Closing date for applications: 10th March 2025

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

03/10/2025

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Requisition ID:R336620