Chief Privacy Officer - Remote

Bergan Recruiting has partnered with a large well respected Financial Services firm who is looking to hire a Chief Privacy Officer. This can be a REMOTE based role.

Bring your experience as a Chief Privacy Officer to a company that is passionate about protecting the information our customers and employees entrust to us. Are you interested in bringing your skills to an organization that is improving and growing its privacy compliance program? Are you interested in leading a privacy team in a position that is ambitious, exciting, and fast paced? Looking for a Chief Privacy Officer to lead the ongoing development and implementation of its privacy program. The position reports to the Enterprise Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer.

As the Chief Privacy Officer, you'll:

• Participate in key enterprise-wide committees and initiatives to provide subject matter expertise and teamwork to minimize privacy risk.
• Supervise the reporting, investigation, and remediation of privacy incidents to ensure that the company is consistent with legal requirements. Resolves when and if privacy incidents require escalation to executive management. Must be familiar with HIPAA, GLBA, NAIC, state and global data breach law requirements.
• Interpret global, federal and state privacy laws, ensuring the company has appropriate policies, processes and controls to maintain compliance in all jurisdictions. Ensuring the company has appropriate notices, consents, policies, agreements, contractual clauses, as required by law.
• Oversee and improving the existing privacy program including privacy impact assessments, business practice assessments, training and awareness, privacy notice delivery, regulatory change, vendor due diligence, monitoring and audits, control mapping, etc.
• Proactively building partnerships and buy-in across the organization to build a privacy first organization that enables privacy by design and default and the protection of personal data.
• Provide information about the privacy program and privacy risk to the Board of Directors and Executive Management Group.
• Provide the vision, strategy, and leadership for a developing enterprise global privacy program in a sophisticated matrixed financial services company. This includes evaluating the existing program and setting priorities to advance the program. Setting long range direction and manage and implement programmatic changes.
• Collaborate with the Information Security, Risk Management, Legal, Compliance, Information Technology and Data Governance departments to identify and control privacy risks; follow key trends, changing industry standards and the latest laws and regulations (in consultation with legal counsel) and make recommendations to address those trends.
• Lead a team of privacy professionals, including mentoring, coaching, and development guidance. Determining responsibilities for personnel and ensuring the right people are doing the right job.
• Evolve the privacy champion/designate role throughout the organization.

Who You Are

The ideal candidate for this position is an experienced Chief Privacy Officer with experience in a matrixed, multi-faceted financial services organization. We're looking for someone who will bring operational privacy expertise with outstanding knowledge, skills and experience in regulatory related matters, and strong operational and business process management. In addition, the ideal candidate will have a consistent record of leadership, critical thinking, building positive relationships, and successful collaboration with senior business partners and peers throughout the compliance and legal functions.

Qualifications:

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• Understanding of industry best practices in privacy and demonstrated success in program evaluation and improvement
• Must be results oriented and able to adapt and deal with ambiguous and/or complex situations and manage expectations
• Excellent organizational, analytical, problem solving, presentation, project management, written and oral communication skills
• Travel required: Approximately one week per month to company headquarters.
• Must be able to maintain a high degree of confidentiality
• Superior matrix management and partnering skills with the ability to interact and quickly gain credibility and build collaborative working relationships to produce business results
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required, and 10+ years relevant experience; JD preferred; IAPP privacy credentials a plus
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
• Basic PC skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• The ability to build and manage relationships and facilitate collaboration and communication
• Expert knowledge of global, federal and/or state laws governing data privacy