Group Privacy Counsel

at  Odevo

We are on a mission to become the leading force in residential property management services. The global residential property management industry is currently undergoing a digital transformation and Odevo is at the forefront of this transformation. Our mission is to radically simplify living for families and individuals by delivering highly attractive and efficient property management services to building owners and associations as well as to residents. Our core belief is that digital technology combined with great people will play a central role in delivering a step change in how boards and residents experience property management.
What we do matters to billions of people across the world. Residential real estate is the world’s largest asset class and buying a home is often the biggest investment a person or family will ever make. But the residential property management industry is lagging behind when it comes to customer focus and digitalization. That is why we formed Odevo.
Leading property management companies in the Nordics, UK, and US have already joined forces to form Odevo and over the last 4 years Odevo’ s revenues have grown 40-fold to become a leading international player. Our ambition is to continue to grow rapidly organically and by attracting additional companies to join us in both existing and new markets.
We deliver our property management services with custom developed software to simplify living and make life easier for property owners, association boards, residents and very importantly our own property management professionals. We make complex topics such as managing property finances and the daily maintenance of buildings easy, and we automate time-consuming everyday tasks so people can spend more time on things that they really enjoy.
We are a 7000 employee company with a start-up mentality. We aspire to break new ground through innovation, and we actively cultivate a workplace where we can grow as individuals and have fun while achieving great things together.
To continue our ambitious growth journey, we are now looking for people who share our vision to join us on a journey that will continue to transform the property management industry on a global scale.

EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 3-5 years of privacy compliance work, preferably in a global organization
• University degree in law, finance, accounting or related field
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  Knowledge of and experience of operational tasks relating to external privacy regulations within EU, UK and US.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Odevo Risk & Compliance team is growing, and we are seeking a Group Privacy Counsel. The Group is operating through its operating companies within Sweden, Finland, UK and the US.
As the Group Privacy Compliance, you will be responsible for enhance the current privacy frameworks within the Group and the operating companies and implementing it, ensuring that the framework is appropriate and suitable for the respective activities and regulatory statuses.
You will ensure, develop, and implement policies and processes to comply with relevant laws and regulations and ensure that the Group remains compliant with regulatory requirements.
You will also evaluate assist the Group in privacy matters and enhancing and implementing privacy processes such as art. 30 registers, processes for Data Protection Impact Assessments, ensuring that requests from data subjects are managed in accordance with external and internal regulations, review current and new compliance regulations, and lead training sessions.
The role can be placed in Stockholm, Helsinki or London with great possibilities to mainly work remotely.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and monitor the Group’ and the operating companies’ privacy frameworks, including implementing privacy processes and breach registers to flag breaches of regulations and internal policies, and regularly assess the efficiency of these processes and recommend effective improvements.
• Co-ordinate with operating companies to review all privacy related documents and policies and provide feedback and reports to identify hidden risks or common issues and suggest ways to improve.
• Co-ordinate and enhance privacy processes within the Group’s technology together with IT & Tech department, Head of Information Security, operating companies etc.
• Maintain a privacy training program for the operating companies and Odevo AB
• Have an understanding and guide senior managers and the business in their responsibilities under relevant legislations
• Provide reports to the Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer and Group General Counsel