Assistant Manager | OGC/Legal | Mumbai | OGC/Legal

Assistant Manager | OGC/Legal | Mumbai | OGC/Legal
• Job requisition ID : 104300 
• Location: Mumbai
• Entity: Deloitte Shared Services India LLP 

The team 

The Legal Counsel team will play a key role in supporting the Firm’s client contracting portfolio, including managed services, reselling and alliance arrangements, and complex service engagements. The role requires strong experience in structuring, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including master service agreements, statements of work, subcontracting arrangements and other client-facing agreements. The individuals should possess strong business understanding, sound judgment, and the ability to simplify and communicate legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders. 

This will need you to interact and collaborate closely with partners and other senior professionals within the firm, the quality and risk management teams of various functions in the firm, and client professionals, to ensure that contracting solutions are practical, risk-balanced and commercially viable. You will help your team members to grow and contribute meaningfully to the Firm, creating/maintaining an open, respectful and professional environment. 

Your work profile 

• Support the Privacy Leader 

• Act as the Consent Manager and Grievance Officer as required.  

• Single Point of contact for Incident Management 

• Single Point of contact for external facing matters (note – the role supports other privacy single point of contacts who may play a similar role in their respective function or entity) 

• Handle and resolves any other privacy matter that may be assigned by the Privacy Leader 

• Monitor compliance with Deloitte’s internal privacy standards, as relevant for Privacy. 

• Performs a check on privacy controls that are implemented to ensure legal compliance to privacy.  

• Work with Internal audit to facilitate privacy risk assessments.

• We expect the role to pursue excellence in the field and support in maintaining high standards in privacy.   

Key skills required:  

• Minimum 3-6 years of post-qualification experience with extensive experience in implementing data privacy processes and practices in large organisations.   

• Experience in drafting and reviewing privacy policies and practices and undertaking privacy impact assessment.  

• Good conceptual understanding Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and other sectoral laws, foreign data protection laws and regulations (e.g., GDPR), their nuances, challenges and risk -based solutions to address them.  

• Experience with privacy by design concepts and working with client-facing and in-house support teams to integrate privacy compliance into process, systems and people practices. 

• Working knowledge of how IT applications, infrastructure and architecture can be adapted to manage and reduce data privacy risk. 

• Experience in drafting and reviewing Data Protection and Data Transfer Agreements between EU and non-EU entities. 

• Experience in dealing with external regulatory authorities, preferably on privacy matters. 

• Drive, initiative and leadership skills.