Sr Privacy Specialist

Description

Senior Privacy Specialist - Information Technology focus

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know: 
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health
•    We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
•    We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
•    We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job responsibilities:

• Supports and leads aspects of the operational administration of the privacy program.
• Supports internal stakeholders such as Legal, IT, Information Security, Vendor management and various business units globally across the Company to ensure that internal controls are in place to mitigate privacy risks.
• Support OneTrust's Trust Intelligence Platform, required setup and configurations.
• Evaluate diverse data to identify patterns, draw conclusions, and prioritize remediation using risk management concepts.
• Supports and implements privacy risk management strategies
• Monitor identified and emerging risks, measure internal control effectiveness, and develop and own action items to remediate identified risk issues. Contributes to initial and periodic privacy assessments in conjunction with third-party vendor risk assessments; makes recommendations and presents conclusions, and maintains critical information in data privacy repository systems
• Consults on the development of business requirements for new system implementations and enhancements
• Compiles metrics and prepares routine reports for presentation to management and the Privacy Office governance bodies (e.g., the Privacy Committee and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors); Develops and maintains key routine management reports, presentations, and metrics to measure the operation and effectiveness of the company’s privacy program
• Leads aspects of the operational implementation of changes to the Company’s privacy training courses, including the tracking and oversight of completion of required training assignments. May develop FAQ documentation or simple training or communication packages with oversight from line manager or the Company’s privacy attorneys.
• Oversees and assists with the administration of the Privacy Office’s intranet page and case management system
• Provides operational support to facilitate the Company’s response to data subject rights requests.
• Organizes and maintains all privacy office documentation and artifacts in designated departmental document repositories. Oversees and assists with the development of draft documentation or templates
• Develops, implements, and maintains departmental record keeping
• Supports process improvements, drive Global Data Privacy projects to completion and performs special assignments and projects as needed.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• Minimum of 3 years related experience in roles such as Business Analyst, Auditor, Risk Management, Information Security, Data Governance, Data Discovery, IT Program Management Officer. Bachelor's degree in information systems and technology is a plus.
• Industry certifications such as a CDPSE, CISA, CIPM, CIPT is a plus  
• Possesses experience in executing technology and process related audits
• Experience in executing audits within an IT environment is preferred
• In-depth operational knowledge in testing internal controls related to data protection
• Experience in executing assessments of organization’s compliance with privacy regulations including information security regulations
• Knowledge of MS Access, MS Excel, MS Project, SQL, Oracle databases and/or any programming language and numeric computing environment would be nice to have
• Knowledge of applicable data privacy, regulations and applicable international standards (e.g. ISO 27001, ISO 27701, NIST etc.)
• Possesses understanding of state-of-the-art technological and organizational security controls
• Good analytical, creative problem-solving and risk assessment skills
• Possesses ability to understand technical concepts, and a desire to find business-oriented solutions to complex problems
• Possesses excellent relationship-building, interpersonal and communication skills
• Possesses high degree of integrity and business acumen
• Prior experience working in/with the pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare or medical device industry or global organization is a plus.

Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health

Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities.  Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description.  The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.