Privacy Legal Counsel

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Belgium.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance to stakeholders regarding privacy, data protection, and relevant regulatory obligations throughout the EMEA region.

• Track and analyze legal and regulatory changes, including GDPR, UK GDPR, ePrivacy regulations, and other applicable frameworks.

• Offer legal advice on digital health solutions, artificial intelligence projects, data governance efforts, secondary data usage, and new product developments.

• Draft, evaluate, and negotiate privacy-related contracts, including data processing and data transfer agreements.

• Assist with privacy risk assessments, transfer impact evaluations, and compliance audits tied to personal data processing activities.

• Counsel on cross-border data transfers and the legal requirements pertaining to international data flows.

• Aid in privacy incident inquiries, remediation efforts, and regulatory notification assessments.

• Create privacy guidelines, templates, governance processes, and compliance resources to bolster global privacy initiatives.

• Collaborate with Legal, IT, Security, HR, Clinical, R&D, Technology and Innovation, and other privacy teams.

• Report directly to the Chief Global Privacy Counsel.

• Expected travel may be up to 5%.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree and over 4 years of experience as legal counsel, or an advanced law degree with a minimum of 2 years of pertinent experience in data protection, privacy, security, or related legal fields.

• Proven experience in providing legal counsel on data protection and privacy issues within a large, matrix-structured organization.

• Familiarity with privacy and data protection laws across EMEA, including GDPR and UK GDPR.

• Experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating intricate commercial and data-centric agreements.

• Professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

• Preferred: qualification as legal counsel in a relevant jurisdiction.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare, life sciences, medical technology, or another regulated sector.

• Preferred: understanding of emerging regulations such as the European Union Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act and European Union Data Act.

• Preferred: experience in supporting privacy assessments, privacy incident responses, data subject rights requests, and international data transfer issues.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible Work Arrangement.

• Competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package.

• A comprehensive range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.

• Eligibility for a short-term incentive program known as the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).