General Counsel

• Provide senior legal guidance on EU/EEA privacy compliance, data governance, and risk mitigation
• Independently manage complex privacy workstreams and support Nielsen’s European privacy program
• Serve as a trusted advisor to local sales and business teams
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Information Security, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, and Legal colleagues across jurisdictions
• Advise on GDPR, national implementing laws, EDPB guidance, ePrivacy requirements, marketing and consumer protection rules, and related European digital regulations
• Translate legal developments into guidance, contract language, policies, notices, processes, and implementation requirements
• Draft, review, and negotiate data processing agreements, data protection exhibits, data sharing and data use agreements, data transfer arrangements, and privacy provisions in commercial contracts
• Support customer agreements, proposals, product offerings, data services, partnerships, and commercial opportunities
• Conduct and oversee PIAs/DPIAs, transfer impact assessments, legitimate interest assessments, and other privacy risk assessments
• Conduct privacy due diligence on third parties, vendors, customers, and strategic partners
• Advise on adtech, audience measurement, analytics, identity, cookies, pixels, SDKs, targeted advertising, consent management, data monetization, and media and marketing data practices
• Assess data collection, use, disclosure, retention, and deletion activities for compliant product launches and operational changes
• Communicate with or support communications with data protection authorities and supervisory authorities
• Support privacy incident and data breach response, data subject rights escalations, regulatory inquiries, audits, and compliance matters
• Improve privacy program materials, including policies, procedures, playbooks, templates, training, records of processing, data inventories, retention requirements, and compliance reporting
• Monitor EU/EEA and national privacy law, enforcement trends, and digital regulation; assess business impact and communicate recommendations

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