Senior Legal Associate - Business Integrity & Data Privacy (Ice Cream)
As a Senior Legal Associate within the Ice Cream Legal Powerhouse, you will provide crucial, structured support to the team and the broader business.
Your responsibilities will encompass: (i) assisting the Global Business Integrity Team in their business partnering, core compliance, and investigations to uphold business integrity; and (ii) serving as the initial point of contact for our brands and functions navigating Ice Cream's privacy processes.
This role demands a strong ethical compass, exceptional communication skills, proficiency in working with data, and a passion for making a positive impact.
Responsibilities:
Business Integrity
- Play a key role in managing the speak-up program, including generating reports, ensuring timely and high-quality case closures, and providing guidance and feedback to investigators.
- Conduct quality control checks on investigation reports and outcomes to ensure alignment with Ice Cream policies and standards.
- Triage and resolve conflict of interest and gifts & hospitality disclosures, applying a risk-based approach and escalating issues as necessary.
- Mitigate third-party red flag risks by collaborating with subject matter experts and various business units.
- Support global Business Integrity efforts by ensuring Ice Cream employees complete mandatory learning programs.
- Collaborate with other functions and regions to foster a culture of integrity and ethical leadership across Ice Cream.
Data Privacy
- Supporting the markets:Act as the first point of contact for our brands and functions during the privacy risk assessment process.
- Support data protection advisors within the legal teams in various markets to manage Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and Privacy Risk Assessments (PRAs).
- Assist with operational privacy tasks such as data mapping.
- Work collaboratively with local data protection advisors, the Central Data Privacy Legal team, and Business stakeholders on new global projects, including supporting global privacy risk assessments.
- Report on trends in privacy requests/issues, generate standard reports, and contribute to the team's goal of becoming more data-driven in its decisions.
- Protecting our consumers and employees:Manage updates to the global privacy notice and serve as the primary contact for individuals who contact Ice Cream centrally with privacy queries.
- Oversee the process for controlling access to documentation.
- Support the central Data Privacy Legal team in ensuring Ice Cream employees receive privacy training.
Key Interfaces
This role involves significant interaction with employees globally. Key stakeholders include:
- Business Integrity and the broader Legal function
- Subject matter experts in areas such as information security, occupational health, human resources, quality, competition, and privacy.
- Third-party compliance teams
- Data privacy team
Key Skills & Relevant Experience
- Professional qualification in Law.
- Experience in ethics and compliance operations.
- Privacy experience or proven experience in the compliance or risk sector.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (essential).
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in matters related to compliance, investigations, regulatory affairs, case management, or other relevant areas for a global ethics and compliance team.
- 5 years of industry experience working within a large, complex business environment requiring data analysis and balanced risk decision-making.
- Experience providing risk-based advice on various types of compliance interactions.
- Proven ability to achieve outcomes and results by influencing resources not directly under your control.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues across multiple time zones and countries.
- Willingness and drive for process excellence.
- Experience using Microsoft tools for data management and visualization, particularly Excel or PowerBI.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferable
- Experience within a consumer goods or retail environment.
- Broader proficiency across Microsoft tools like SharePoint and Power Automate to innovate and improve ways of working around documentation and workflow management.
Leadership Behaviours
- Execution Responsibility
- Bias for Action
- Growth Mindset
- Consumer and Customer Focus
