Data Privacy Governance & Operations Specialist (f/m/d) @ A1 Competence Delivery Center

Strength. Care. Growth

A1 Competence Delivery Center is a vital component of A1’s telecommunications business. Acting as an expertise hub, CDC is dedicated to delivering a full range of high-quality IT, network, financial and other services to support A1’s operations across all OpCos, independent of location.

Using the power of being OneGroup and leveraging synergies, CDC enables transparency of resources, key skills and knowledge expansion and personal career growth opportunities’ enhancement, paired with job stability.

You will know we are the right place for you, if you are driven by:

• Opportunities to learn and build your career.
• Meaningful work in a stable and fast-paced company.
• Diversity of people, projects, and platforms.
• A supportive, fun, and inspiring place to work.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Data Privacy Governance & Operations Specialist to join our Data Privacy team and support the implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of our privacy governance framework across the Group.

The role combines data privacy governance, operational processes, control implementation and monitoring, working closely with Security, Legal, IT and local OpCo DPOs.

Role Insights:

• Develop, maintain and continuously improve the Register of Processing Activities (RoPA) across the Group.
• Coordinate the collection, validation and maintenance of processing activities, data flows, purposes, data categories, retention periods and responsible owners.
• Support the implementation of data privacy controls, requirements and minimum standards across Group companies.
• Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of privacy controls and identify gaps, deficiencies and improvement opportunities.
• Support privacy assessments and reviews, including assessment of new or changed processes, systems and services from a privacy perspective.
• Maintain and improve the data privacy documentation framework, including procedures, guidelines, standards and operational requirements.
• Support the identification, tracking and remediation of privacy-related findings and compliance gaps.
• Prepare regular privacy compliance and maturity reporting for relevant stakeholders.
• Support internal and external audits
• Cooperate with Legal and other relevant functions to ensure that privacy requirements are effectively translated into operational processes and controls.
• Support privacy requirements in projects, new technologies, digital services and business initiatives.
• Contribute to privacy awareness, guidance and knowledge-sharing activities across the organisation.
• Continuously improve privacy processes, controls, tooling and ways of working.

What Makes You Unique: 

• Experience in data privacy, privacy governance, compliance, information security or a related field.
• Good understanding of GDPR and data protection principles and their practical application in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with privacy controls, compliance monitoring, assessments and documentation.
• Practical experience with Register of Processing Activities / processing inventories.
• Ability to translate requirements into practical processes, controls and implementation activities.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and topics.
• Experience working in a large, international or multi-country organisation is an advantage.
• German language skils will be considered as an advantage.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with Legal, Security, IT and business stakeholders.
• A structured, pragmatic and continuous-improvement mindset.

Our gratitude for the job done will be eternal, but we’ll also offer you:

• Innovative technologies and platforms to “play” with.
• Modern working environment for your comfort.
• Friendly, ambitious, and motivated teammates to support each other.
• Thousands of online and in-person learning opportunities for you to grow.
• Challenging assignments and career development opportunities in multinational environment.
• Attractive compensation package.
• Flexible working schedule and opportunity for home office.
• Numerous additional benefits, including, but not limited to free A1 services.

If you have any questions,  please do not hesitate to contact Svetlina Vazharova.