Privacy Legal Specialist

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At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.

Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.

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Nestlé USA (“NUSA”) is looking for an enthusiastic data privacy specialist to assist the company in privacy, data retention, and data security incident response. Serving as the Data Privacy Champion for NUSA, this candidate will be responsible for understanding the main data flows between Nestlé entities and our third party vendors, enhancing and maintaining the OneTrust data map, raising awareness of data privacy requirements within the organization, providing or organizing data protection training for Nestlé employees and contracted staff, handling any privacy queries, requests or complaints, and other responsibilities as needed to support the legal and compliance function.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Privacy Program

• Act as privacy advocate across the organization, providing training and guidance to teams and individuals as needed to promote awareness and compliance.
• Support business initiatives that involve the processing of personal data, ensuring alignment with applicable privacy laws and internal policies.
• Coordinate updates to privacy policies and terms of use in collaboration with legal and business stakeholders.
• Create and improve privacy-related standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure consistency and clarity across business processes.
• Help implement new technical changes to privacy program as required by changing US laws and regulations.
• Assist in preparations for updates to senior management on data protection issues and risks, and/or progress on data protection initiatives.
• Collaborate with other business areas within the relevant Nestlé entities to ensure they are aware of any risks or initiatives.
• Stay informed of industry trends, best practices, and new innovative solutions as it relates to data privacy and governance.
• Provide support to wider compliance team with compliance administrative items as needed.

Data Inquiries, Access Requests and Privacy Complaints

• Monitor and update processes to handle data subject requests, such as access requests, deletion requests, do-not-sell requests, and other data rights requests as required by privacy laws.
• Respond to personal data inquiries and complaints from employees or retail customers in a timely manner.
• Manage the process of informing third-party vendors and service providers of consumer data rights requests.

Privacy Impact Assessments

• Assist business functions with undertaking privacy impact assessments regarding all new system, digital assets or projects involving the processing of personal data.
• Support the business in managing the mitigation of identified risks and ensure remediation activities are prioritized in accordance with the impact analysis.
• Ensure that appropriate measures are taken to mitigate any risk identified as part of an audit.

Data Security Incident Response Team

• Support cross-functional data security incident response team.
• Initiate incident response meetings as necessary, track key details, and follow up with larger group regarding action items.

Qualifications/Certifications:

SKILLS:

• Service and team orientation, flexibility, collaborative, ability to work in a diverse environment, and good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Passion for working with technology, IT systems, and data collection and governance practices.
• Interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships with and influence a dynamic and diverse set of stakeholders, including the ability to listen and understand differing perspectives.
• Strategic mindset with quantitative, problem-solving, project management, and negotiation skills and a strong desire for progress and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to analyze and present findings in a clear and cohesive manner.
• Adept at managing change and working through ambiguity to identify and drive to a solution, both independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Critical Experiences/Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in applicable fields required.
• 2-3 years of experience in compliance, with knowledge or eagerness to learn privacy laws (e.g. CCPA, CPRA, and VCDPA).
• Experience or eagerness to learn OneTrust or other data mapping platforms.
• IAPP CIPP Certification perferered, but not required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.

The Nestlé Companies are equal employment opportunity employers. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at [email protected] or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-800-321-6467.

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