Data privacy & IT Counsel
(1 permanent position based in France)
VinFast is a member of Vingroup – the largest private corporation in Vietnam. We have become the #1 car seller in all our competing segments within just 21 months of launching in Vietnam and we will launch our smart EVs globally in 2022. Our thoughtful design focused on seamless customer experience, highest safety standards, superior craftsmanship, and intelligent infotainment with lifestyle personalization. As a fast-developing company, our ambition is to scale the European market within a year and our first offering will be a dedicated electric SUV.
✨ Job purpose and impact:
Reporting to the Head of Privacy Europe and integrated into our legal department, your mission is to take care of IT-related matters from a legal perspective and prevent any risk of breach of the regulations relating to personal data by the company.
As our IT and Data Privacy Counsel, you will oversee the legal, compliance, and privacy aspects of the IT-related activities of the European entities of VinFast while being deeply involved in the business initiatives around the market launch of VinFast connected EVs and other products and services. You will play a key role in protecting the reputation of VinFast by ensuring that legal guidelines are followed and providing detailed legal advice to the management and your sparring partners in the business departments. You will cooperate closely with the Data Protection Officer and the VinFast Global and European legal teams.
? Your mission:
- Give accurate and timely counsel to business departments and management in the framework of the IT and Data Privacy related operations of VinFast and in the further structuring.
- Provide legal support and guidance in particular in the area of IT, Privacy, and GDPR to the business teams.
- Analyze and control the compliance of the activities of personal data processing projects within the framework of DPIA and propose remedial measures;
- Identify the risks generated by a project of the data processing activity, apply effective risk management techniques
- Draft, review, and negotiate agreements, contracts, other legal documents, and technical and organizational measures with customers, suppliers, partners, and public authorities, mainly in the area of IT and Privacy s
- Draft, review, and negotiate data protection agreements
- Cooperate with the DPO to identify discrepancy or lack of conformity for the processing activities in production as well as the proposed remedies;
- Analyze the relevance of requests to exercise rights before processing by the DPO team
- Help the legal department to follow the processes and methods initiated by the Data Protection Officer Europe.
- Participate in the management of disputes: risk analysis, management of relations with lawyers, collection of evidence from operational staff, drafting of letters and formal notices, drafting and validation of transactional protocols.
- Present a monthly legal watch list
- Be up-to-date in terms of legal developments and communicate to the organization in a clear and understandable way.
?Your Profile :
- Fully qualified lawyer in a European country
- Ideally, you hold a Master's in Digital law / IT Law or in Personal Data Protection law
- You have between 2 and 3 years of experience as an in-house data protection / IT counsel. Experience in the internet of things and connectivity is a plus.
- You are working autonomously and with attention to detail
- You are fluent in English (written and oral), and you have a spirit of synthesis and analysis.
- You have taken part in data protection impact assessment (DPIA) workshops, you made control regarding the measures pushed by the operational team, and you have been able to propose, for cases requiring it, additional risk reduction measures if necessary
- You have experience with risk analysis methods.
- You have experience in negotiating data protection agreements with data processors
- Having experience in the automotive world is a plus.
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