Legal Counsel Chertsey, England

Samsung Electronics

Full Time Chertsey, England 81665 - 132221 GBP ANNUAL Today

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Position Summary

Why Join our Team?

EO Legal is a fast paced and dynamic place to work. We are a close knit and high performing team, offering diverse and interesting projects to work on, as well as frequent learning and development opportunities to support your career pathway.

Role and Responsibilities

Your Key Responsibilities:

To provide GDPR and UK privacy and data protection advice to the Samsung Europe Office (“EO”) business teams, Samsung HQ and its European affiliates. You will work closely with the Senior Legal Counsel to assist with planning data protection and privacy strategy/risk management for our business areas, as well as how best to engage with our key partners and provide best in class advice. You will also work with the Senior Legal Counsel for Data Protection and Privacy on ongoing pan-European data protection and privacy matters being handled in the Team, as well as supporting with monitoring the same across our affiliates in Europe.

The work will span preparing and delivering advice on privacy and data protection law issues including:

Supporting and advising on applicable data privacy and protection issues arising in relation to EO projects, agreements and initiatives being run by our marketing, customer services, HR, products teams, and advertising, media and broadcast team;
Advising on relevant data protection structures to ensure data protection compliance, including supporting dialogue with Samsung HQ and the other Samsung Electronics affiliates across Europe;
Working on transfer impact assessments, data protection impact assessments and legitimate interest assessments to assist the business comply with documentation requirements under GDPR and UK GDPR;
Providing practical guidance to the business on policies and procedures and providing scalable written guidance to teams on how data privacy applies to our products and services;
Working on rights requests under the GDPR across the UK and Europe;
Providing training to the business on data protection and privacy compliance matters;
Liaising with Supervisory Authorities as necessary, providing hands-on expertise on privacy and data governance and advising on incident reporting and investigations;
Continuous development of internal data protection guidance, policies and procedures for all divisions;
Researching legal issues, case law and legislative developments.

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

Candidates are expected to be patient, pragmatic, dynamic and flexible;
Excellent communicator;
Team orientated;
Detail focused;
Quick learner;
Culturally aware/ sensitive and be able to explain legal issues in clear terms that are easily understood;
Good drafting and analytical skills;
Finally, you will be expected to develop a deep understanding of Samsung’s products and business and assist with guiding the business teams with clear advice in a fast paced environment.
Candidates should have excellent academics and have trained at a top tier London or major provincial firm. They need to have a strong command of data protection law and issues. In-house experience is desirable.

Skills and Qualifications

Benefits of working here at Samsung:

Hybrid working (3 days office & 2 days at home)
Bonus Scheme
Car allowance contribution
Pension contribution
3 x volunteering days each year
Holiday - 25 days per annum plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday!
Access to staff sales discounts on a wide range of Samsung products
Access to Samsung Reward Plus discount shopping

Equal opportunity statement

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We create the future by fostering a diverse culture to drive sustainable growth.

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