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Risk Management Lead for Data Privacy

AT Pfizer
Pfizer

Risk Management Lead for Data Privacy

Kirkland, Canada

Why Patients Need You

Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our science and risk-based compliant quality culture is flexible, innovative, and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in development, maintenance, compliance or analysis through research programs, your contribution will directly impact patients.

What You Will Achieve

As a member of the GCP risk management team, you will drive data protection and privacy controls across Research and Development (R&D) functions. You will act as a liaison between the business functions and the Global Privacy Office and Global Privacy Operations by championing privacy initiatives and activities, driving privacy compliance operations and serving as a trusted privacy advisor for business representatives across R&D within Pfizer Research & Development and Pfizer Oncology Division.

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How You Will Achieve It

  • Serve as the main privacy point of contact for R&D colleagues for privacy related matters


  • Drive privacy-related activities, operations and risk management within the R&D organization


  • Serve as a trusted advisor for colleagues and a liaison between the business process owners, local legal teams and the Global Privacy Office for privacy-related operational activities.


  • Work directly with business process owners to facilitate inventory maintenance, activity assessments (AAs), data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) and risk mitigation processes, including maintaining, communicating, and driving compliance with organizational privacy policies


  • Partner with Vendor Leads and Third Party Quality Leads for data privacy aspects of vendor assessments


  • Provide R &D perspective to the GPO related to developing and maintaining privacy policies, standards, guidelines.


  • Promote privacy culture and awareness across R&D


  • Support Pfizer's Privacy by Design process by providing feedback and guidance to business process and system owners, including related to understanding and implementing recommended privacy controls


  • Assist the business with the completion and maintenance of Inventory Records for processing activities that handle personal data


  • Assist with responding to individual rights requests, including validating the identity of the requestor, confirming the request should be executed, triaging, responding to the requestor, etc.


  • Support the business with completion of Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)questionnaires for clinical business processes, including remediation of identified process risks


  • Generate and analyze data privacy metrics to manage compliance; generate data privacy reports for the Global Privacy Office and leadership.


  • Manage change necessary to achieve privacy compliance objectives and maintain a data privacy culture across the organization, considering cultural l and legal requirement differences


  • Other ongoing day-to-day operational activities required to support the management of an effective privacy program including creating reports and documentation, improving tool s and processes


Qualifications


Must-Have

  • Bachelor's Degree and 7+ yearsof related experience in data privacy, data protection and/or clinical development.


  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to plan and execute projects.


  • Strong communication skills to be able to engage directly with various business representatives, business process owners and leadership teams to support adoption of consistent data privacy practices

Nice-to-Have

  • Master's degree and relevant pharmaceutical clinical development experience including quality.


  • Substantial understanding of data privacy legal and regulatory requirements and ability to interface with business and information technology colleagues to drive privacy controls into business operations


  • Strong project management skills


  • Knowledge of good clinical practices and associated regulatory requirements.

Purpose

Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.

Digital Transformation Strategy

One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.

Flexibility

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let's start the conversation!

Equal Employment Opportunity

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms - allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.

Disability Inclusion

Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!

Quality Assurance and Control

Client-provided location(s): Kirkland, QC, Canada; Sandwich, UK; Thessaloniki, Pilea 555 35, Greece
Job ID: Pfizer-4919907
Employment Type: Full Time