Job Title:  Associate Director | Data Privacy | Mumbai | OGC/Legal

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

Work You Will Do 

You will support the Firm in implementing the Firm’s privacy policy, and ensuring the policy and the privacy practices meet with law and regulations as well as privacy policy and practices that the Firm may voluntarily choose to apply.  The responsibilities include those required for implementing and supporting the privacy programme of the Firm such as drafting and review of privacy policies, privacy process review and implementation, reviewing the changes in law and regulation and technology as well as the Firm’s systems whether generally or for service launch/change related reasons, assisting in preparing the Firm for global practice reviews, proactively implementing best-in-class processes, MIS, dashboards, supporting the Firm in dealing with privacy incidents, review of contracts with clients and other counterparts to protect the Firm’s interests.   

Key Primarily responsibilities for this role

• Support the Privacy Leader
• Act as the Consent Manager and Grievance Officer as required.
• Single Point of contact for Incident Management
• Single Point of contact for external facing matters (note – the role supports other privacy single point of contacts who may play a similar role in their respective function or entity)
• Handle and resolves any other privacy matter that may be assigned by the Privacy Leader
• Monitor compliance with Deloitte’s internal privacy standards, as relevant for Privacy.
• Performs a check on privacy controls that are implemented to ensure legal compliance to privacy.
• Work with Internal audit to facilitate privacy risk assessments.

We expect the role to pursue excellence in the field and support in maintaining high standards in privacy. 

Additionally, you will also

(a) develop formats /templates for various policies, processes, as well as other documents (including contracts) as relevant; (b) draft, prepare and/or review policies, processes, contracts as relate to privacy; (c) assist in preparing material (presentations) for workshops & training programs, delivering training programmes; (d) other legal matters.

This role reports into the Privacy Leader and may have additional reporting line(s) where applicable.

The grade / level of the position offered will be based upon the depth and breadth of selected candidate’s experience, qualifications and tenure in data privacy implementation.

How You Will Play Your Role

At Deloitte we have a culture of collaboration and consultation.  We consult the relevant professionals as a matter of course to make sure we have the best inputs to handle a matter.  It’s a “we” culture.  We help and support our colleagues and help each other to win.  You must feel comfortable playing your role in a collaborative and consultative manner and to be challenged in a healthy, intellectual way – keeping in view the objective of achieving the best outcome for the Firm. 

Qualifications

• A degree in law or membership of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India or Institute of Cost Accountants of India or the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
• Preferably, graduation or diploma in Science, IT or engineering.
• Certifications such as IAPP, DCPP, ISO 27001:2022 preferred.,
• Working knowledge of data privacy frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27701:2019 is preferred.

Work Experience

• Minimum 10-12 years of post-qualification experience with extensive experience in implementing data privacy processes and practices in large organisations. 
• Experience in drafting and reviewing privacy policies and practices and undertaking privacy impact assessment.
• Good conceptual understanding Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and other sectoral laws, foreign data protection laws and regulations (e.g., GDPR), their nuances, challenges and risk -based solutions to address them.
• Experience with privacy by design concepts and working with client-facing and in-house support teams to integrate privacy compliance into process, systems and people practices.
• Working knowledge of how IT applications, infrastructure and architecture can be adapted to manage and reduce data privacy risk.
• Experience in drafting and reviewing Data Protection and Data Transfer Agreements between EU and non-EU entities.
• Experience in dealing with external regulatory authorities, preferably on privacy matters.
• Drive, initiative and leadership skills.

Skills and Capabilities

• Ability to interact with senior professionals - articulate with clarity and confidence.
• Self-motivated, team-player, drive to lead and complete projects in a timely manner in a complex environment.
• Ability to quickly adapt to Deloitte’s culture and way of working, appreciation of business policies and processes while providing implementable privacy solutions.
• Solid analytical skills, ability to apply these to practical situations, and a solution-oriented, pragmatic approach to balance risk and reward.  The following are important, among others:
  • Risk spotting ability – the candidate must be able to quickly assess the risk areas and recommend ways of mitigating or managing them.
  • Strong analytical skills - should be able to use judgment, analyse facts and draw logical conclusions.
  • Risk mitigation – problem solver attitude, and quick-thinking ability and resourcefulness in finding approaches to manage or mitigate identified risks.

Preferred Location

Mumbai/Bengaluru

Your role as a leader

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, Employee across our organization must strive to be:

• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation.
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose.
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity.
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future.
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders.
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions.
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities.
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization.
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities.
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for

the success of engagement(s)

• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems.
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte.
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviors and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

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