Digital Privacy Officer & Compliance Manager
Location: London, UK
ReportingTo: General Counsel
ContractTerm: Full-time,permanent. 4 days in the office
ABOUT LIV GOLF
The LIV Golf League is the world’s only global golf league featuring 13 teams, a 14-tournament schedule, and many of the world’s best golfers. Launched in 2022, the League was designed to expand the sport on a global level and create new value within the golfing ecosystem while enhancing the game’s societal impact. A landmark investment by LIV Golf also launched The International Series, a set of 10 enhanced events sanctioned by the Asian Tour, with elevated prize funds in world-class destinations, offering a pathway for leading professional and amateur golfers from around the world into the LIV Golf League. Hall of Fame golfer and renowned businessman, Greg Norman, is the League’s first and founding CEO and Commissioner. Only three years into operations and with tournaments across North and Latin Americas, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, LIV Golf remains committed to developing the sport at every level and exposing more people to the positive virtues of the game through its unique blend of intense competition and entertainment.
LIV Golf is owned and operated by LIV Golf Investments whose vision and mission are centered around making holistic and sustainable investments to enhance the global golf ecosystem and unlock the sport’s untapped worldwide potential.
HISTORY
LIV Golf launched in 2022 as an eight-event Invitational Series with tournaments across the U.S., Europe and Asia. 2023 saw the first official season of the LIV Golf League, establishing the sport’s first professional golf teams captained by many of the game’s most decorated superstars competing in 14 events around the world.
The format respects golf’s history and traditions with updates for modern-day sports fans; three days, 54 holes, no cut, shotgun start, and simultaneous team and individual competitions, offering a faster tournament that drives engaging storylines and offers an immersive fan experience. The League’s award-winning events, each wholly owned and operated by LIV Golf and broadcast to over 500 million homes worldwide, showcase world-class competition within a family-friendly environment. Music entertainment, live concerts and a festival-style atmosphere play a signature role with LIV Golf, a two-time winner of the World’s Best Golf Event from the World Golf Awards and a Sports Business Awards Finalist for Sports Event of the Year.
LIV Golf continues to expand its reach by bringing the League to new and returning markets featuring some of the most iconic venues in the world. It has also introduced free agency to professional golf, integrating end-of-season player promotion and relegation, team trades and offseason roster movement that drive year-round fan engagement embraced by many of the world’s most popular sports.
Away from the entertainment on the course, LIV Golf is dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing of the communities it visits through its ground-breaking social impact and sustainability strategy, ‘Potential, Unleashed.’ Named a 2024 Most Impactful award winner by Front Office Sports for utilizing its platform to make a positive impact off the course, the League is committed to giving back and improving the world through golf.
Role objectives
· Working with our Chief Legal Officer, ensure LIV Golf adheres to legal standards and in-house policies, by enforcing regulations in all aspects and levels of business.
· Provide guidance on compliance and data protection matters.
· Develop and oversee control systems to prevent or deal with violations of legal guidelines and internal policies.
· Evaluate the efficiency of controls and improve them continuously.
· Revise procedures, reports etc. periodically to identify hidden risks or non-conformity issues
Responsibilities
· Act as DPO for the business.
· Oversee and manage all data protection activities within the business.
· Develop and implement data protection policies and procedures.
· Ensure compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws.
· Work with counsel to help advise on local data privacy law issues in all applicable jurisdictions
· Provide advice and guidance on data protection laws.
· Collaborate with the Information Security function to raise employee awareness of data privacy and security issues.
· Collaborate with Information Security function to maintain records of all data assets and exports and maintain a data security incident management plan to ensure timely remediation of incidents including impact assessments, security breach response, complaints, claims or notifications, and responding to subject access requests (SARs).
· Ensure the company’s IT systems and procedures comply with all relevant data privacy and protection law, regulation and policy (including in relation to the retention and destruction of data).
· Establish a Data Privacy/Information Governance Committee.
· Develop strategies and initiatives to ensure engagement with key internal and external stakeholders.
· Lead data protection training and awareness campaigns.
· Coordinate and conduct data privacy audits.
· Handle data protection breaches and investigations.
· Review vendor contracts and consents needed to implement projects in partnership with the firm’s Procurement and Information Security functions.
· Regularly report to senior management on data protection activities and compliance.
· Liaise with regulatory bodies and data protection authorities as required.
Compliance
· Develop and oversee control systems to prevent or deal with violations of legal guidelines and internal policies.
· Evaluate the efficiency of controls and improve them continuously.
· Revise procedures, reports etc. periodically to identify hidden risks or non-conformity issues.
· Draft, modify and implement company policies.
· Collaborate with the Legal, Internal Audit, and HR departments to monitor enforcement of standards and regulations.
· Participate in product development and changes. Act as advisor on aspects affected by compliance requirements.
· Review and monitor promotional marketing material and other collateral to assure their compliance with regulations.
· Review the work of colleagues when necessary to identify compliance issues and provide advice or training.
· Prepare reports for senior management as appropriate.
· Develop and maintain a resource library, which includes copies of regulations and interpretations.
· Collaborate with Internal Audit to manage the risk register and management action plans.
· Attend compliance seminars and programs on an ongoing basis to maintain current knowledge of laws and regulations.
· Ensure preparation of regulatory compliance reports, as required.
Required Skills
· 4-6 years proven experience as a DPO and/or Compliance Manager, focusing on GDPR and data protection and experience managing compliance in a global enterprise.
· In-depth knowledge of the industry’s standards and regulations including GDPR and all applicable US data protection and privacy laws and regulations.
· Excellent knowledge of reporting procedures and record keeping.
· Experience developing policy and compliance training.
· A business acumen, and practical outlook and approach.
· Methodical and diligent with outstanding planning abilities.
· An analytical mind able to “see” the complexities of procedures and regulations.
· Well-developed and professional interpersonal skills; ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm.
· Strong change and project management skills, including the ability to manage time well, prioritize effectively, and handle multiple deadlines.
· Ability to undertake large, long-term projects, develop alternative methods to complete them, and implement solutions.
· Ability to use independent judgment and discretion when making majority of decisions.
· Detail-oriented approach to recommend and implement strategic improvements on a range of data privacy and data protection issues.
· Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with the appropriate discretion.
· BSc/BA in law, finance, business administration or related field.
· DPO qualification
LIV Golf Investments is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on age, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, race, ethnicity, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations where we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeships. LIV Golf Investments makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
