Senior Director, Digital Sustainability Legal Team (Privacy), EU

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Senior Director, Digital Sustainability Legal Team (Privacy), EU

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 39,000 employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. #WeAreLilly.

Purpose:

The successful candidate will be an attorney with impeccable judgement who will provide strategic legal counsel on global privacy risks to the organization with a particularized focus on the European Union, United Kingdom and Switzerland.  The individual must be energized by working in a dynamic environment with broad responsibility, as this position will effectively partner with a wide range of stakeholders across the company. This attorney will have direct, front-line responsibility providing strategic counsel to various functions, including ethics and compliance, information technology, cybersecurity, and privacy, artificial intelligence, data governance and will liaise with regional and specialty legal colleagues to counsel and strategize on these issues, including compliance with existing and emerging laws around the globe. This attorney will also collaborate with the government affairs team in influencing legislation and industry standards related to information privacy.  The position reports to the Associate Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Regional Digital Sustainability Attorney Lead.

Responsibilities:

• Provide proactive and strategic counsel to business partners on matters related to privacy with a particularized focus on the European Union, United Kingdon and Switzerland.
• As needed, collaborate with other team members to provide counsel in areas of data governance, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence
• Partner effectively and coordinate across Legal, as well as Ethics and Compliance, Information Technology and Security, and Global Security to identify innovative cybersecurity solutions and compliance practices for information, products, and internal operations
• Proactively monitor, train, and advise on emerging risks, regulations, and best practices
• Provide legal counsel on privacy and cybersecurity incident response actions and internal investigations
• Ensure the organization maintains appropriate policies, notices, standards, controls, playbooks, and other practices and processes cross-functionally and as a part of global operations for privacy
• Educate business and operation leads, ethics and compliance, information technology and security colleagues on potential legal implications of proposed privacy platforms, programs, and practices
• Participate as a core member of teams responsible for data governance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and privacy strategies
• Represent Lilly in various industry, legal and other relevant external groups related to privacy in the European Union, United Kingdom and Switzerland.
• Draft and review, and otherwise support negotiations regarding privacy provisions in a wide variety of agreements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and J.D. degrees from accredited schools.
• Active license to practice law in at least one Member State of the European Union, a country in the European Economic Area, and/or the United Kingdom
• A minimum 6 years of experience as a practicing attorney, including at least 4 years of experience in privacy.

Additional Skills/Preferences

• Preference for in-house legal experience, ideally with a global pharmaceutical or biotechnology company, or advising global corporation clients at a law-firm, or some combination of the two.

• Working knowledge and understanding of various privacy regulations, frameworks, and accompanying guidance
• Experience successfully and strategically handling privacy risks, threats, and breaches
• Ability to research, track, and turn regulations and enforcement trends into practical, actionable advice           
• Demonstrated collaboration skills with corporate business partners and/or clients, including the ability to work closely with information technology and security teammates and a clear understanding of roles and responsibilities
• Basic knowledge of and understanding of privacy regulators, including the FTC, states attorneys general, and international supervisory authorities
• Highly motivated and collaborative partner with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with team members and members of management across all levels of the company
• Good judgement and a meticulous level of attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to influence others
• Demonstrated commitment to expand knowledge and adapt to the changing environment
• Comfortable operating with a sense of urgency and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced and evolving environment
• Ability to engage across global geographic markets and different operating models
• Experience counseling on emerging regulations and best practices in data governance, artificial intelligence, privacy, and cyber security
• Experience counseling technology teams
• Willingness to travel to Indianapolis on a bi-annual basis.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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