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Company Name: Booking
Booking.com Transport Ltd is part of the Trips Business Unit at Booking.com. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners, and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
The Trips business unit will bridge the Booking.com of today with the Booking.com of tomorrow, leading the evolution from a single-product company to a multi-product offering company with an unprecedented, personalised travel experience at the heart of its success.
The Senior Legal Counsel - Privacy will advise and influence in an area central to our success as a business, and the way the world sees us; the use of personal information, of our customers, our employees, our suppliers and more.
This role will directly support a dynamic organization of product leaders, managers, software and hardware engineers, designers, deal makers, and operations specialists who need clarity and certainty to design, improve and navigate the customer service journey and the 'real' journey, of millions of travellers every day.
The role demands a privacy and data protection expert, potentially with deep experience in specific relevant areas, who is capable of drawing on technical specialist support on multiple fronts, whilst acting as principal point of contact for colleagues, and shaping business strategy.
This role is to provide timely, accurate, proactive, independent and commercially focused advice on our products all stages of development and strategy focusing on complex and shifting privacy regulations. You will be seen as a solution-provider.
You will be expected to 'roll up your sleeves' and get involved with complex, imaginative technical products that can make travel better for everyone, whilst meeting the highest standards of data protection. Your primary focus will be for the Trips Business Unit (Cars, Rides and Attractions) which are operated from BTL in the United Kingdom, but our future is about the end-to-end connected trip, and so every piece of work has global privacy implications which you will navigate and map with your colleagues on behalf of the business.
As the Sr Legal Counsel - Privacy will be involved in a number of projects and legal matters, including:
- Advise the business on data protection and privacy compliance for all business processes, including strategy, products, policies (both internal and external), training, contractual requirements and agreements with third parties, and ensuring that the business is compliant with the applicable data protection legislation at a global jurisdictional level.
- Provide strategic and risk-based solutions, including managing external lawyers and interpreting and applying external advice to specific business units, in respect of changes required pursuant to global data protection and privacy requirements.
- Advise in respect of copy approval for all data privacy copy published on the relevant business platforms.
- Deal with any inquiries or requests for information from regulatory bodies and supervisory authorities in various jurisdictions in respect of data protection and privacy compliance matters
- Review and approve data sharing use cases together with the Booking.com Privacy Legal and Risk and Compliance Team.
- Perform Data Protection Impact Assessments on operational matters to ensure the organisation complies with all relevant data protection and privacy laws.
- Review, improve and update standard templates to support the first line.
- Provide (ad-hoc) legal advice to the organisation to ensure their activities and business practices comply with relevant data protection and privacy laws worldwide.
- Keep abreast of new developments in data protection and privacy laws worldwide. Report these new developments to the team and recommend appropriate actions and updates as necessary.
- Act as first point of contact for the Risk department when it comes to new vendors, keep and maintain a separate inbox for new vendors.
- Perform third party risk assessments and closing the relevant legal contracts with third parties.
- Support the first line on handling escalated complaints and data subject requests, provide strategic input based past legal cases in combination with the organisation’s risk based approach.
- Review, improve and update internal policies and practices from a privacy point of view to ensure they are up to date and compliant.
- Review, improve and update the organization’s public Privacy & Cookie Statement as required.
- Works closely with LPA colleagues, including Senior Managing Counsel - Privacy in the more complex matters as needed.
- Supporting relevant business units with new initiatives, which most of the time are sensitive topics like fraud, screening, blacklisting etc.
- Provide ad hoc privacy advise to relevant business units/functions across the business, in relation to day to day operations and matters.
- Develop training modules for data protection and privacy for employees and identifying specific risks and gaps in knowledge where additional targeted training is required.
The ideal Sr Legal Counsel - Product counsel will have:
- Practising Solicitor with 5+ years relevant PQE experience either gained with a reputable law firm or in-house (other PQE experience and in-house experience will be considered).
- CIPP/E, CIPT or other similar certification desirable
- In-depth legal knowledge particularly in respect of privacy/data protection and basic knowledge of several other areas such as competition law, consumer protection compliance, litigation and commercial
- Educated to degree standard.
- Deep understanding of system integration concepts, platform strategies, cloud-based infrastructures and new IT technology fields
- Adaptable to new ideas, and ability to change direction balancing long-term view with short-term action
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) – multiple language ability is a benefit
- Excellent drafting skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Confidence in ability to provide privacy related advice and guidance.
- Able to demonstrate commercial awareness and understanding of the business requirements.
- Provision of coaching and training.
- Professional and collaborative approach.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Excellent organisational skills.
Booking.com ensures equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, colour, family or medical care leave, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, pregnancy and childbirth, sexual orientation, or any o
