Data Protection and Privacy Manager

Company Description

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

Job Description

The Data Protection & Privacy Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining the organisation's data protection and data privacy program. 
facilitate compliance with the General Data protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection legislation by ensuring effective systems and Controls are in place to enable Fastmarkets, including its managers and employees, to comply with their legal obligations.
Act as a focal point for data protection activities and foster a good data protection culture within Fastmarkets by collaborating with various departments.
 
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide “first line of support” to triage data privacy queries from the business.
•  Manage and update compliance-related documentation, including incident logs and other reporting documentation.
• Create and update policies, processes and reports.
• Carry out data privacy and protection research and remain up to date with the changes in relevant privacy/protection legislation.
• Manage the privacy/protection self-help tools on the Intranet.
• Manage and respond to data subject requests.
• Review new suppliers. 
• Review data processing agreements. 
• Manage the DPIA process and assist the business with completion on DPIA’s. 

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Either completed or working towards privacy certifications such as CIPP/E, CIPM, PC.dp (or equivalent).

• Have experience of advising on the application of privacy legislation and the management of privacy risk.

• Have a good understanding of UK and EU privacy legislation. Ideally you would have some knowledge of US and other global data privacy legislation or be willing to learn. 

• Have experience in drafting and reviewing data protection provisions in contracts.

• Have experience completing DPIAs and mitigating privacy risks. 

• Experience of handling data subject requests, including but not limited to, DSARs and erasure requests, or an understanding of how to handle these requests. 

• Excellent policy/documentation skills including creating and updating.

• A continuous improvement mindset, and a commitment to knowledge sharing.

• Ability to prioritise workloads and problem-solve.

• A self-starter who is confident in communicating with business and technology partners and senior management.

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) across different functions.

• Bring a proactive approach to our data privacy processes, rather than adopting a ‘wait to be asked’ approach.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.