<div>Adidas is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders (incl. gender identity), ethnic and social backgrounds, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions and beliefs, and those with apparent or non-apparent disabilities*. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees.</div> <div>*We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.</div> <div> </div> Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: The Manager Privacy Counsel is tasked with identifying and advising on privacy, AI and data regulation topics that arise in the area of assigned stakeholders, enabling them to achieve their business goals while ensuring privacy compliance. The Counsel ensures appropriate legal assessment and provides fit for purpose advise for requests and projects with backstopping of Director Global Privacy. They ensure the fulfillment of documentation requirements like AI use case assessment, data protection impact assessments, privacy contracts, external complaints response, etc.). They are responsible for the end-to-end delivery of activities within projects and requests of assigned stakeholders under the guidance of Director Global Privacy. They coordinate and execute independently throughout all phases of an assigned projects or requests and ensures appropriate quality, documentation and communication with backstopping of Director Global Privacy where needed. Key Responsibilities: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Manage and align priorities with assigned stakeholders based on regulatory relevance, privacy and AI risk and business priorities </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Deliver tailored, fit for purpose advise to ensure compliance and enable stakeholders to achieve their goals</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Data Protection Impact Assessments: Ensure the completion of Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments within the pre-defined framework. Produce, verify and negotiate with internal or external stakeholders necessary deliverables (e.g. data processing agreements) and coordinate with external counsel as engaged by a Director</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Privacy and AI Risk Management: Engage with business owners and obtain their commitment for risk mitigation related to risk identified within activities assigned to them. Report medium or high risks to a Director</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Personal Data Breaches: Analyse and assess incoming personal data breaches per a pre-defined assessment schema and escalate a verified personal data breach to the Global Privacy management team</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Individual Complaints: Coordinate or execute fact finding related to the history of any complaint and highlight the privacy impact, the root cause and the related risk for adidas and provide a proposal for resonse letters related to complaints submitted by individual persons</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Privacy Trainings: Provide training or awareness activities to special business audiences. Identify and report exisiting needs for training. Create training materials.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Privacy projects: Coordinate the delivery of individual initiatives and execute complex tasks within major projects as assigned. Engage with and support external project or program managers or subject matter expert</li> </ul> Key Relationships: <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Global Privacy, Data & AI Regulation team</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Assigned Stakeholders within the company</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Wider Global Privacy Community</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Global Legal Function</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Peers within the business</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Project Managers</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Management</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">External counsel and/or consultants</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Suppliers</li> </ul> Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: <ul style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-bottom:2.0pt"> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Good communication skills</li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Comfortable with information technology topics</li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Diligent working practice </li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to prioritize work</li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Integrity</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: <ul style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-bottom:2.0pt"> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">3 -5 years of relevant working experience</li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Solid and proven record in the area of privacy</li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Working experience in large companies International working experience a plus</li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Master degree in law (or equivalent) / alternatively master degree or equivalent in a relevant area / Full law qualification (master degree in law or equivalent & eligible for bar admisstion) a plus </li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Relevant international privacy certification a plus (CIPP, CIPM, etc.)</li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Master degree in law (or equivalent) / alternatively master degree or equivalent in a relevant area / Full law qualification (master degree in law or equivalent & eligible for bar admisstion) a plus </li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Relevant international privacy certification a plus (CIPP, CIPM, etc.)</li> </ul>

Manager-Privacy Counsel (m/f/d) (Herzogenaurach, BY, DE) @ adidas

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