# Counsel I, Data Privacy

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $114,000.00 - $255,400.00
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking a Counsel I, Data Privacy to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice on data privacy and data protection matters.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Provide advice on data privacy and data protection matters, including regional and state privacy laws and emerging legislative and regulatory developments.

- Support regional privacy compliance activities, including required notifications, filings and engagement with regulatory authorities.

- Advise on privacy aspects relating to employment and recruitment and HR-related privacy notices.

- Draft, review and maintain privacy notices, data processing agreements, data sharing agreements, HIPAA business associate agreements and other privacy documentation.

- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to draft, review and negotiate privacy-related contract terms with customers, vendors and other third parties.

- Advise on marketing, promotional and outreach activities.

- Contribute to the development, implementation and maintenance of Company privacy policies, procedures, processes and training materials.

- Support privacy operational activities, including data subject rights requests, complaints, privacy-by-design reviews, data mapping and mitigation strategies.

- Support privacy incident response activities, including investigation, assessment, required notifications, remediation support and coordination with the Company’s incident response team.

- Participate in client and vendor meetings, customer audits and regulatory inspections for support related to data privacy.

- Work collaboratively across the Office of the General Counsel to build consensus, improve processes and drive legal projects to completion.

- Support privacy reviews of new technologies and business initiatives, including artificial intelligence, digital health solutions, and other technologies involving personal data.

**Qualifications**

- JD/LLM/LLB or an equivalent degree from an accredited university

- Fully qualified lawyer

- Industry certifications e.g. CIPP/US, CIPT, CIPM, AIGP (or equivalent)

**Additional Qualifications**

- Proven experience in a multinational company or law firm

- Strong knowledge and experience in application of privacy law

- Strong knowledge of contracts and commercial laws in assigned region/country

- Ability to collaborate with colleagues and take a business-oriented approach while identifying and balancing legal risks and providing succinct, accurate and pragmatic advice

- Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams

- Outstanding relationship-building skills

- Exceptional analytical skills, independent judgment, a desire to learn, and an ability to take on and prioritize a wide variety of complex matters

- Can-do attitude, able to work under pressure, manage tight deadlines and a high volume of competing priorities

**Critical Skills**

- Significant experience advising on US federal and state privacy and digital marketing law, preferably within the pharmaceutical, healthcare or life-sciences sector, including HIPAA/HITECH, FTC Act and FTC health-privacy requirements, CAN-SPAM, TCPA/FCC requirements, DOJ Final Rule, CCPA/CPRA and other US state comprehensive and consumer health-data privacy and breach notification laws.

**Benefits**

- Company car or car allowance

- Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision

- Company match 401k

- Eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance

- Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time

## Skills

### Required
- data privacy
- data protection
- HIPAA
- HITECH
- FTC Act
- CAN-SPAM
- TCPA/FCC requirements
- DOJ Final Rule
- CCPA/CPRA

### Nice to have
- CIPP/US
- CIPT
- CIPM
- AIGP

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