GDPR and Ethical Compliance Specialist

at  Zentiva Group as

We are looking for a legal professional ready to shape corporate compliance at a strategic level. As GDPR & Ethical Compliance Officer, you will play a key advisory role, ensuring we uphold the highest standards of data privacy and ethical governance across our headquarters and affiliates. You will navigate evolving regulations, mitigate corporate risk, and guide leadership on critical compliance matters. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a high-impact function in a fast-growing, dynamic environment, where your expertise will directly influence decision-making and help build a culture of integrity. If you’re looking for a role that blends legal expertise with strategic influence, read on!

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Support of the global DPO in fulfilling his/her role and attributions;
• Support maintenance of GDPR agenda, data privacy community across the organization;
• Serve as a subject matter expert and a single point of contact, at local level (CZ); provide data privacy guidance, and support to any related stakeholders
• Implement and localize data privacy related documentation and processes/workflows
• Plan, perform and coordinate regular monitoring activity, review of the related results, the robust, time-bound remedial plans and participate on deployment of such;
• Monitor the data privacy landscape to keep visibility on best practices, evolution, trends thereto related;
• Support maintenance of Ethical Compliance agenda HQ and country level, and monitoring of Ethical Compliance Program.
• Draft and/or ensure creation of internal ethical compliance documentation
• Evaluate business activities to assess company risk areas.
• Report and help to manage compliance risks, violations and investigations and Investigate or collaborate with other departments to direct investigation of any identified or potential compliance issues, including implementation of corrective action and discipline, as appropriate.
• Support to the ethical compliance hotline

To thrive in this role you will need:

• University degree (Law or Business)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in Compliance and Experience with GDPR implementation
• Knowledge of control and risk systems, and understanding of compliance aspects in international and transversal environment (focus on Europe region)
• Be Process oriented, and structured and have professional and personal integrity
• Have excellent interpersonal, and communication skills
• Be able to manage workload and priorities
• Fluent English and Czech required

Our Recruitment Process:
To be considered for this role, please apply in our Applicant tracking system and refrain from sending your CV via email. Upon the completion of sourcing (CV collection) period, all received application will be reviewed by our Recruitment experts and evaluated against the needs of the open role. Successful candidates will be contacted by our Recruiting experts for an initial screening interview during which further details about the selection process will be shared. Successful candidates will progress to interviews with line managers, while not selected candidates will be informed in a written form as soon as possible.
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In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Support of the global DPO in fulfilling his/her role and attributions;
• Support maintenance of GDPR agenda, data privacy community across the organization;
• Serve as a subject matter expert and a single point of contact, at local level (CZ); provide data privacy guidance, and support to any related stakeholders
• Implement and localize data privacy related documentation and processes/workflows
• Plan, perform and coordinate regular monitoring activity, review of the related results, the robust, time-bound remedial plans and participate on deployment of such;
• Monitor the data privacy landscape to keep visibility on best practices, evolution, trends thereto related;
• Support maintenance of Ethical Compliance agenda HQ and country level, and monitoring of Ethical Compliance Program.
• Draft and/or ensure creation of internal ethical compliance documentation
• Evaluate business activities to assess company risk areas.
• Report and help to manage compliance risks, violations and investigations and Investigate or collaborate with other departments to direct investigation of any identified or potential compliance issues, including implementation of corrective action and discipline, as appropriate.
• Support to the ethical compliance hotlin

To thrive in this role you will need:

• University degree (Law or Business)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in Compliance and Experience with GDPR implementation
• Knowledge of control and risk systems, and understanding of compliance aspects in international and transversal environment (focus on Europe region)
• Be Process oriented, and structured and have professional and personal integrity
• Have excellent interpersonal, and communication skills
• Be able to manage workload and priorities
• Fluent English and Czech require