Privacy Lead Assessor

The Privacy Lead Assessor leads end-to-end privacy reviews with deep GDPR expertise, translating regulatory requirements into practical risk decisions. The role identifies and categorizes privacy risks, recommends mitigations aligned to GDPR principles, and ensures assessments reflect organizational risk appetite. It requires strong technical understanding of data flows, security and privacy controls, vendor risk, and international data transfer mechanisms. The Lead partners with legal, IT, compliance, and business stakeholders, mentors analysts, and maintains consistent, auditable processes and reporting.

Required Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of GDPR principles, data subject rights, lawful bases, and accountability.
• Proven experience identifying and categorizing privacy risks and advising on mitigations aligned to GDPR.
• Strong ability to analyze data lifecycle and create/validate data flow maps.
• Hands-on evaluation of security and privacy controls (e.g., encryption, access control, logging).
• Experience assessing third-party/vendor risk, including review of Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
• Knowledge of international data transfer mechanisms (SCCs, adequacy decisions) and compliance approaches.
• Stakeholder engagement across legal, IT, compliance, and business teams; clear communication of privacy risks to non-specialists.
• Team leadership and mentoring experience for privacy analysts.
• Decision-making skills to prioritize and approve assessments aligned to risk appetite.
• Governance and workflow design for consistent privacy review processes.
• Quality assurance, documentation, and audit readiness for traceability of risk decisions.
• Continuous improvement mindset to embed lessons learned into processes.
• Program/project management skills: managing workload, timelines, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and approve privacy assessments, ensuring alignment with GDPR and organizational risk appetite.
• Identify, categorize, and document privacy risks; recommend pragmatic mitigations.
• Analyze end-to-end data lifecycles; create and validate data flow maps and records.
• Evaluate technical and organizational safeguards, including encryption, access control, and logging.
• Conduct third-party/vendor privacy risk reviews; assess DPAs, SCCs, and vendor compliance posture.
• Review and advise on international data transfer mechanisms (SCCs, adequacy) and required documentation.
• Engage stakeholders across legal, IT, compliance, and business; communicate complex findings clearly.
• Mentor and coach privacy analysts; oversee quality and consistency of reviews.
• Design, maintain, and improve privacy review workflows and governance.
• Ensure quality assurance, documentation standards, and audit readiness for privacy risk decisions.
• Manage program and project activities, including workload planning, timelines, and reporting to leadership.