Country & Deputy Global Data Protection Officer

In Poland we are located in: Katowice, Szczecin, Gdynia, Warszawa

Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) empowers the financial sector, with a focus on insurance, to transform and become digital, innovative and agile. Backed by 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens offers a complete insurance platform, with pre-integrated, low-code solutions and a cloud-first approach that accelerates customers’ digital transformation. Serving more than 600 customers in 30 countries, Sapiens offers insurers across Property & Casualty, Workers’ Compensation, and Life markets the most comprehensive set of solutions, from core to complementary, including Reinsurance, Financial & Compliance, Data & Analytics, Digital, and Decision Management. Sapiens’ team of more than 5,000 employees operates through our offices in North America, the UK, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.

Country & Deputy DPO will join the legal team and support the Group DPO in ensuring Sapiens’ compliance with EU privacy legislation.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, monitor, maintain the company’s records in OneTrust

• Perform privacy assessment of new vendors, assets and other by use of OneTrust

• Negotiate and review Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) from both sides (when Sapiens is Data Controller or Data Processor).

• Performance of Transfer Impact Assessments when cross-border transfers of personal data are foreseen.

• Draft of privacy policies, guidelines, and others, as well as update the company’s privacy notices, policies, and processes as required.

• Handle data subjects’ requests.

• Assist local privacy requests from Poland and Germany offices

• Support Group DPO in relation to supervisory authority or audits.

• Advise the business on on-going legal queries (such as NDAs) as required from time to time.

• Assist in the assessment of legislative changes, identification of risk associated and their impact on business activities and existing privacy policies.

Requirements:

Professional:

• Academic qualification in law.

• At least 5 years of working experience as a privacy lawyer in an international company.

• Excellent knowledge of EU GDPR and UK GDPR. Good knowledge of German data protection law is a plus.

• Experience with cloud services and cross-border transfers of data.

• Experience with OneTrust privacy tool.

• Experience in drafting privacy policies and negotiating DPAs.

• Excellent verbal and written communication in English. German is a plus.

• Experience as a privacy lawyer on the processor side in regulated sectors, such as in the Insurance or Banking sector, is an advantage.

• Experience with incident management.

Personal:

• Ability to work independently and drive projects to completion.

• Fast learner and task-oriented.

• Ability to work across organizations and in an international environment and able to proactively seek internal assistance and perform follow up work.

• Able to balance a good understanding of commercial issues with the need to maintain a high standard of legal advice.

• Team player.

• Well-organized, thorough, and structured

We offer

• Stable employment – permanent job contract

• Flexible working hours to help you keep the work-life balance and find time for your hobbies

• Partnership approach & communication respecting individual needs and employee development plan ideas

• Possibility to gain professional experience and learn from global industry experts

• Stable project & diversified working environment

• Periodical events and contests for employees

• Private medical healthcare & Multisport card

• IT-specific, friendly dress code that you will become a fan of

• Attractive employee referral program and bonuses

Join us and become part of our common success! Please send your resume in English.
Sapiens is an E-Verified & Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V.