Manager-Privacy Counsel (m/f/d)

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Manager Privacy Counsel is tasked with identifying and advising on privacy, AI and data regulation topics that arise in the area of assigned stakeholders, enabling them to achieve their business goals while ensuring privacy compliance. The Counsel ensures appropriate legal assessment and provides fit for purpose advise for requests and projects with backstopping of Director Global Privacy. They ensure the fulfillment of documentation requirements like AI use case assessment, data protection impact assessments, privacy contracts, external complaints response, etc.). They are responsible for the end-to-end delivery of activities within projects and requests of assigned stakeholders under the guidance of Director Global Privacy. They coordinate and execute independently throughout all phases of an assigned projects or requests and ensures appropriate quality, documentation and communication with backstopping of Director Global Privacy where needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and align priorities with assigned stakeholders based on regulatory relevance, privacy and AI risk and business priorities
• Deliver tailored, fit for purpose advise to ensure compliance and enable stakeholders to achieve their goals
• Data Protection Impact Assessments: Ensure the completion of Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments within the pre-defined framework. Produce, verify and negotiate with internal or external stakeholders necessary deliverables (e.g. data processing agreements) and coordinate with external counsel as engaged by a Director
• Privacy and AI Risk Management: Engage with business owners and obtain their commitment for risk mitigation related to risk identified within activities assigned to them. Report medium or high risks to a Director
• Personal Data Breaches: Analyse and assess incoming personal data breaches per a pre-defined assessment schema and escalate a verified personal data breach to the Global Privacy management team
• Individual Complaints: Coordinate or execute fact finding related to the history of any complaint and highlight the privacy impact, the root cause and the related risk for adidas and provide a proposal for resonse letters related to complaints submitted by individual persons
• Privacy Trainings: Provide training or awareness activities to special business audiences. Identify and report exisiting needs for training. Create training materials.
• Privacy projects: Coordinate the delivery of individual initiatives and execute complex tasks within major projects as assigned. Engage with and support external project or program managers or subject matter expert

Key Relationships:

• Global Privacy, Data & AI Regulation team
• Assigned Stakeholders within the company
• Wider Global Privacy Community
• Global Legal Function
• Peers within the business
• Project Managers
• Management
• External counsel and/or consultants
• Suppliers

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good communication skills
• Comfortable with information technology topics
• Diligent working practice
• Ability to prioritize work
• Integrity

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 -5 years of relevant working experience
• Solid and proven record in the area of privacy
• Working experience in large companies International working experience a plus
• Master degree in law (or equivalent) / alternatively master degree or equivalent in a relevant area / Full law qualification (master degree in law or equivalent & eligible for bar admisstion) a plus
• Relevant international privacy certification a plus (CIPP, CIPM, etc.)
• Master degree in law (or equivalent) / alternatively master degree or equivalent in a relevant area / Full law qualification (master degree in law or equivalent & eligible for bar admisstion) a plus
• Relevant international privacy certification a plus (CIPP, CIPM, etc.)

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE'S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

• COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
• OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
• INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
• TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
• INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company's standards.
• RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

At adidas, we strongly believe that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into our culture and talent processes gives our employees a sense of belonging and our brand a real competitive advantage.

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By recruiting talent and developing our people to reflect the rich diversity of our consumers and communities, we foster a culture of inclusion that engages our employees and authentically connects our brand with our consumers.

Job Title: Manager-Privacy Counsel (m/f/d)

Brand:

Location: Herzogenaurach

TEAM:

State: BY

Country/Region: DE

Contract Type: Full time

Number: 545561

Date: Jun 2, 2026