Associate Director/Lead/Lawyer - Strategy Growth Counsel/Data Strategy - IT

Job Description:

- Imagine being part of team that helps transform leading organisations and communities around the world!

- We put innovation at the heart of everything we do and coupled with our core values of client value creation, one global network, respect for the individual, best people, integrity and stewardship, we offer careers that provide unparalleled opportunities for career growth and job satisfaction.

- The mission statement of Global Services Legal is to "drive sustainable business growth for by providing deep legal expertise at the intersection of business strategy, industry and technology in a highly dynamic environment." The Global Services Legal team is a strategic partner and a product counsel towards Services organisations: Song, Strategy & Consulting, Industry X, Technology and Operations. We are a diverse team and our team's mission is to help our business to grow in a responsible, inclusive, and sustainable way, by providing early-stage legal advice and support to the key business strategies and priorities.

- This team also functions as the integrator between various other parts of the Legal team, coordinating between the multidisciplinary areas of deep expertise across the wider Legal team, to deliver one holistic Legal perspective to the business.

The GSL Team is now looking for a senior-level lawyer to serve as Data Strategy Lead.

Data Strategy Lead - Global Services Legal

Cl5 (Associate Director)

Key Responsibilities:

As the Global lead for Global Services Legal Data Strategy, you will lead a team that will:

- Support (as required) current and future programs for management and use of data, including assisting in the development and operation of any control frameworks and compliance measures.

- Provide support and counsel to a Chief Data Officer or equivalents that may be appointed byincluding participating in leadership structures and/or data governance programs and initiatives established by such officer.

- Enable Centre for Data & Insights teams with the sourcing and commercialization of data for

Support Responsible AI program, including collaborating with new Data & AI Compliance program. Your responsibilities will include:

- Participating in global governance for development of Responsible AI program

- Co-designing, and enabling the Responsible AI program, alongside Ethics and Compliance team, and other teams including Enterprise Risk Management, Information Security and Applied Intelligence

In the role, you will:

- Provide thought leadership and advice on data governance and risk identification/management, and on gathering and strategic use of data.

Manage a diverse team of dedicated experts to serve as Global Services Legal's Data Strategy team, focused on:

- Collaborate with Ethics & Compliance, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Government Relations to understand current and future legal, regulatory and policy requirements as well as voluntary commitments and industry best practices, and translate them into best practice approaches

- Provide thought leadership and guidance around data issues impacting offering and solution development, and the business areas that we serve

- Support of Ventures & Acquisitions Legal and business teams in evaluation of data issues for acquisition targets, development and implementation of post-merger integration strategy.

- Supervise and coach a team of senior and junior resources, taking responsibility for effective team building and continuous development, and creating process industrialization.

- Develop and deliver training to raise acumen and increase expertise related to Data across the Enterprise.

- The role will report into a member of the Global Services Legal leadership team, and involve close alignment with the other Global Services Legal Leads, and the rest of the Global Services Legal team.

Knowledge Skills and Experience:

- Minimum 10 yrs. relevant experience in a corporate or law firm setting

- Demonstrated command of data and related global policy, laws and regulations as they relate to offering, solution and product development

- Experience with data and emerging technologies, data driven products and services, software embedded in devices, analytics, and artificial intelligence

- Experience analyzing complex facts and situations to provide risk analysis and mitigation strategies related to data governance

- Proven ability to develop vision, operationalize and implement strategy

- Track record of developing trusted relationships with senior business leaders

- Experience of taking a new product or service offering to market, and familiarity with a product life cycle

- Experience leading teams of legal professionals

Behaviors and Attributes:

- Excellent commercial acumen, ability to deal with ambiguity, and create clarity with a pragmatic approach

- Strong interest in learning about emerging technologies

- Commitment to a creative, inclusive, and diverse workplace

- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills and ability to develop materials (such as PowerPoint presentations) to enable briefings to senior leadership within business and Legal teams

- Building and maintaining a network of good working relationships both internally and externally, including with outside counsel etc.

- Highly collaborative, strategic thinker

- Ability to build a sense of belonging in a team and establish a sense of common purpose inside the larger Legal department

- Focus on analysis of the business, guidance to the right business and legal teams, industrialization of more mature processes, and active enablement of our teams in diverse jurisdictions to handle the work

- Open to work with and understand cross-cultures and locations throughout the global organization

Location: Flexible

Work Requirements:

- Travel required as needed (likely <10%)

- Must have ability to effectively work with others remotely, manage a schedule with global stakeholders