Legal Counsel

Sigmar Recruitment

Cork

Solictor - Pharma. Cork. Working with a Global Pharma company who are actively looking to recruit a Legal Counsel for their Cork Operations. This is a newly created position and would like the successful candidate to have Multinational experience. The Legal Counsel is expected to lead their culture of compliance with a focus on continuous improvement and streamlining their processes, adding value to their business and meeting customer/stakeholder needs. This person provides a designated comprehensive employee, data protection & compliance oversight. He/She will advise on Regulations, interpretation of the applications of the regulations specific to the Business and has oversight of privacy & data compliance. This role offers a great opportunity to work closely with Compliance Officer and Senior Management. Duties include: •Maintain and develop knowledge of Irish/EU compliance legislation including Privacy themes/laws, Regulations. •Providing advice and guidance on day to day Compliance, privacy or Employee relations legal queries and escalations. •Ensure all policies & procedures are up to date and adhere to Data Privacy and Employment law legislation. •Develop, Advise and maintain a data protection framework including collaboration space management. •Assist with the design and monitoring of the Privacy controls including protecting information, data and asset security. •Develop materials and tools that support education. •Assist with the investigation and management of potential breaches/instances of non-compliance. •Report any detected breaches or risk issues internally or to external bodies as appropriate. •Maintain good relationship with internal and external regulatory authorities. •Ensure reporting on the progress and resolution of compliance issues. •Providing legal advice in relation to the areas of Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Protected Disclosures and employment law. •Working collaboratively with the management team to identify solutions to legal, ER and privacy issues. •Maintain and update a Privacy Impact Assessment process and support management in undertaking assessments of new business, system and process changes to assess the potential data protection risks and challenges. •Provide advice, guidance and training to the business/other compliance colleagues as required on data protection developments to aid with implementation. Skills and Qualifications: •This position requires a Bachelors/Master’s degree in Law, along with qualification as a solicitor/barrister and 3 years post qualification experience. •Practicing solicitor or barrister with 3 years+ post qualification experience. •A good understanding of data protection and employment law / regulation and how to apply it in a business environment. •Experience in advancing, applying and monitoring compliance policies. •Strong influencing & communications skills and has the confidence to deal with management at all levels. Please email your CV to modriscoll@sigmar.ie or call Marie on 021-4847133 to discuss the role in further detail. This job originally appeared on RecruitIreland.com.

2451 days ago