• Job Description

  Req#: R-99260

  Data Protection Officer, Europe

  Located in our Amsterdam office

  Remote working opportunities available (in-country)

  About Assurant:

  Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

  Our Values:

  Common Sense, Common Decency, Uncommon Thinking and Uncommon Results guide our every action at Assurant. These values inspire our commitment to be a responsible corporate citizen.

  The opportunity:

  Reporting to the International Privacy Officer, the Data Protection Officer (‘DPO’) ensures that Privacy policies, processes and procedures are in place across the European business entities, and supporting, maintaining and further implementing the Assurant Global Privacy & Data Protection Program, observing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable European data protection laws. The DPO will be the subject matter expert on European data protection topics, provide advice, monitor and report on Privacy and Data Protection issues and lead the investigations about potential data incidents. You will be part of and report into the Assurant Global Privacy Office

  You will;

  • Manage privacy-related issues that have been escalated to the Privacy Office.
  • Educate European entities and employees of their obligations under the GDPR and any other applicable EU member state data protection provisions.
  • Develop and deliver privacy communications and training to ensure competence and compliance.
  • Monitor the EU entities compliance with the GDPR and any other applicable EU member state data protection and perform audits of compliance with such laws and regulations.
  • Ensure Privacy by Design processes are embedded into business processes.
  • Liaise, partner and act as the contact for the data protection supervisory authorities on matters relating to the processing of personal data and other matters.
  • Develop privacy metrics, following the Assurant Global Privacy Office’s practices, and provide reports to the relevant Executive Managers and EU entities governance boards, and present to European governance forums on privacy & data protection issues.
  • Partner with the lines of business in the investigation and management of potential breaches/instances of non-compliance to support prompt and accurate reporting.
  • Monitor compliance with applicable data protection regulations and Company procedures.

  You will have:

  • Degree level education and 5 years minimum of privacy work experience, of which you have experience performing a variety of privacy programme components with a high degree of independence.
  • Experience implementing privacy and data protection programmes
  • Expert level understanding of privacy program management and European privacy laws and regulations (such as GDPR), ability to apply and implement rules, codes and guidance
  • English language is important, Dutch language is a preference
  • Experience collaborating with Supervisory Authorities
  • Demonstrated project management skills, including leading multiple work streams in a resource-constrained environment
  • Demonstrated ability of applying privacy requirements to practical use cases beyond policy formulation and compliance
  • Experience drafting, implementing and maintaining internal and external privacy notices, policies, procedures and other guidance documents

  Benefits & Training:

  • Bonus Scheme
  • Premium free pension and WIA insurance
  • Flexible Working
  • Car allowance
  • 28 holidays
  • Internal Wellbeing Programme
  • LinkedIn Learning
  • Learning and Development opportunities

  At Assurant, diversity helps us inspire creativity in the global marketplace, and we are believers in the strategic value of inclusion and how it improves performance, creates growth opportunities, better aligns us to our clients, and enhances employee engagement.

  We look forward to receiving your application!

• About the company

  Assurant, Inc. is a global provider of risk management products and services with headquarters in New York City. Its businesses provide a diverse set of specialty, niche-market insurance products in the property, casualty, extended device protection, and preneed insurance sectors.

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