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About TransUnion
TransUnion is a major credit reference agency that offers specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.
What You'll Do
1. Representing the operations in Madrid in engagements with clients, including notably, the negotiation of contracts, discussions with respect to regulatory change and attendance at the Control Commission.
2. Creation and negotiation of contracts of various types in connection with the services as described above.
3. Management, in coordination with Europe Legal and other TransUnion business and legal units, of the protection of TransUnion’s registered and unregistered intellectual property rights.
4. Leading on day-to-day handling of data privacy matters, including design and maintenance (with DGO) of the subject access request and consumer disputes processes and legal support on escalated data protection queries and complaints (including AEPD matters) from consumer services and customer relations teams.
5. Managing escalations to Legal Directors, Head of Legal (Products), Spanish DPO and/or other members of Europe Legal.
6. Leading on Europe Legal support on product development matters, including liaising with and orchestrating support from Europe Legal’s Product Lawyers.
7. Leading on Europe Legal’s oversight and review of changes to the rules governing the Confirma File and other user group rule books;
8. Instructing, managing and liaising with external legal providers.
9. Maintaining appropriate work governance methodologies including management of caseload via case management system.
10. Liaison with Europe Legal Operations team on case management system use and configuration as well as contract database curation.
11. Assisting Europe Legal Transactions, leadership and Operations teams with respect to automation of contract production.
12. Attendance at internal client meetings with respect to contract opportunities.
13. Attendance at Europe Legal team meetings.
14. Maintaining (i) an in-depth knowledge of the contracts, legislation, regulation, industry codes and policy that regulate the use of data assets by TransUnion; and (ii) an expert level understanding of how these impact the business in Spain.
15. Being the Data Protection Officer (DPO) for TransUnion’s Spanish operations (including leading on any data incident investigations in Spain (or involving Spanish or Portuguese personal data)).
16. Contributing to a knowledge management system in tandem with other team members.
17. Advising the business on how data can be used in a compliant way both in the Product and Enterprise Development Lifecycles and in all sales models.
18. Supporting (and acting as alternate as required) TransUnion’s representative at external data oversight committees / governing bodies.
19. Leading on any internal/external projects in Spain or relating to personal data of Spanish data subjects.
20. Leading on and liaising with Product lawyers with respect to product and data protection related matters (e.g. privacy policies and model clauses).
21. Providing training and support to the business (in particular, Legal Transactions, Go To Market, Sales Consolidation and