Nordic Data Protection Officer, Copenhagen, Denmark

Job description

Do you want to work for the market leader in the world's largest beauty company? Do you wish to work for a company that highlights its ethical values? Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit and dare to take responsibility? Then you might be just the talent we are looking for to strengthen our Legal team as the Nordic Data Protection Officer for the Nordic countries.

As the Nordic Data Protection Officer, you will get a unique opportunity to use and broaden your expertise and experience within the area of data privacy laws and compliance in a global environment. Your role is to locally manage the L'Oréal Group's personal data protection policies and processes, for employees, consumers and service providers, in compliance with local law. You will be part of an international, dynamic and competitive environment that requires legal expertise as well as a business mind-set. As you will be working in the Nordics, you should expect moderate travel activity. You will report to the Nordic General Counsel and to the Group Data Protection Officer.

Your key job accountabilities:
•Further implement, optimize and develop the global data privacy compliance program and related activities in the Nordics. Managing data protection policies in compliance with local regulations.
•Adapting standard data protection clauses for consumers, clients, service providers where needed
•Conduct training activities, draft internal standards, provide legal advice and develop compliance tools to support the business needs and enable compliance
•Working together with IT security to guarantee compliance with data protection policies and procedures
•Ensuring documentation of processing incl. maintaining a data protection register
•Cooperating with the Data Protection Authorities
•Handling data breaches' crisis situation with Group DPO if needed

Your profile:
•You have a Master's degree in Law, Commercial Law or equivalent
•You have a minimum of 3 years of work experience within the legal field, preferably also with data privacy law
•You have excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills
•You have experience with handling and rolling out compliance programs
•You have the ability to influence key stakeholders, manage relationships and be solution oriented
•You have sound analytical skills and a drive to achieve results
•You are fluent in English and preferably one of the Nordic languages.

We are looking for the Nordic Data Protection Officer to start as soon as possible. The employment is permanent. We are reviewing applications and inviting for interviews on a rolling basis, so do not wait to apply!

What's in it for you?
We offer you an exciting position with great challenges and opportunities including an individual career plan, an extensive catalogue of e-learnings, competitive personnel benefits, modern offices, and a dynamic working environment with engaged and passionate colleagues. Our Nordic organization counts close to 1000 employees based in the four Nordic capitals, with Denmark being the Nordic headquarter and L'Oréal Denmark counting for almost 500 employees.

With its unique international portfolio of 34 diverse and complementary brands, the Group generated sales amounting to 26.02 billion euros in 2017. As the world's leading beauty company, L'Oréal is present across all distribution networks: mass market, department stores, pharmacies and drugstores, hair salons, travel retail and branded retail. Research and innovation, are at the core of L'Oréal's strategy, working to meet beauty aspirations all over the world and attract one billion new consumers in the years to come. L'Oréal's sustainability commitment for 2020 “Sharing Beauty With All” sets out ambitious sustainable development objectives across the Group's value chain.

Join L'Oréal. Lead the change.