GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator with over 100 years of healthcare industry experience and around 50,000 employees globally.
We enable clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services, supported by our Edison intelligence platform. We operate at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision health -digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and improving outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and researchers around the world.
Essential Responsibilities
• Provides expert advice on healthcare, customer and employee privacy laws and regulations, with a particular emphasis on the LGPD in Brazil, and similar privacy legislation and related implementing rules and regulations for the rest of Latin American (LATAM) countries, specially Argentina, Chile, Colombia, México, Panamá, Peru and Puerto Rico,
• Serves as GE HealthCare's Data Privacy Officer in Brazil, Mexico and other LATAM countries as required under applicable local laws.
• Provides support to GE HealthCare's Chief Privacy and Data Protection Counsel, USCAN Privacy Leader and LATAM General Counsel, to assess, develop, implement and monitor processes to assist all GE HealthCare businesses to comply with LATAM privacy laws and regulations.
• Assists other members of the GE HealthCare Global Privacy Office to drive the overall global privacy and Responsible AI program.
• Collaborates with development teams to ensure that new introductions or versions of products and services comply with applicable data privacy and security requirements (legal, contractual or otherwise), and assists in the negotiation of data privacy and security provisions in related contracts/agreements.
• Collaborates with network of cross-functional representatives within GE HealthCare to drive compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations, contractual obligations, data subjects requests, internal policies and procedures, and breach investigation, mitigation and notification responsibilities.
• Conducts periodic and as-needed business audits and risk assessments to assess data privacy and security compliance.
• Works in partnership with our Digital Technology teams to ensure compliance with all applicable data security administrative, physical and technical safeguards.
• Provides privacy compliance training and periodic best practices tips/reminders to assigned businesses.
• Works cross-functionally to resolve individual privacy compliance issues/questions and investigations, assessing causes, developing corrective actions, and ensuring consistent application of corrective actions.
• Works as an integral part of the GE HealthCare Privacy and Data Trust team in evaluating other regulatory initiatives, planning and developing key strategies, and implementing actions vis-à-vis privacy institutions and regulatory agencies in a wider range of areas.
Qualifications/Requirements
• JD (or equivalent) with active bar membership.
• 7-10 years experience at a law firm, corporate legal department or in equivalent compliance function, with significant experience in healthcare privacy matters.
• Deep knowledge of Brazil privacy laws, regulations and best practices, with particular experience in the healthcare industry.
• Working knowledge of key aspects of privacy laws in other countries, especially in Latin America, the United States and the European Union.
• Proven track record of project and process development, implementation and project management, with minimal supervision required.
• Proven ability to function as a member of a global team in a complex, matrix environment.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and resolving legal and regulatory issues quickly and effectively, with an ability to make real-time decisions.
• Demonstrated experience prioritizing conflicting demands from multiple business clients in an extremely fast-paced environment.
• Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English and outstanding interpersonal skills.
Desired Characteristics
• Ability to cope with pressure and multiple deadlines contemporaneously.
• Detail-oriented.
• Excellent influencing skills combined with an ability to build strong working relationships within a matrix environment.
• Advanced communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated ability to think and lead on a strategic level within a complex organization.
• Ability to deal effectively with people and work in diverse teams, sometimes virtually located.
• Level-headed approach to risk and managing such risk against business objectives.
• High level of energy and the ability to pass it on to other team members.
We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.
GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.
Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.
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