Senior Legal Counsel (Spain)

What We'll Bring:

We Are TransUnion:

TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

What You'll Bring:

We’re looking for a Senior Legal Counsel (Spain) to join our growing team.

Day to Day You’ll Be:

• Representing the operations in Madrid in engagements with clients, including notably, the negotiation of contracts, discussions with respect to regulatory change and attendance at the Control Commission.
• Creation and negotiation of contracts of various types in connection with the services as described above.
• Management, in coordination with Europe Legal and other TransUnion business and legal units, of the protection of TransUnion’s registered and unregistered intellectual property rights.
• Leading on day-to-day handling of data privacy matters, including design and maintenance (with DGO) of the subject access request and consumer disputes processes and legal support on escalated data protection queries and complaints (including AEPD matters) from consumer services and customer relations teams.
• Managing escalations to Legal Directors, Head of Legal (Products), Spanish DPO and/or other members of Europe Legal.
• Leading on Europe Legal support on product development matters, including liaising with and orchestrating support from Europe Legal’s Product Lawyers.
• Leading on Europe Legal’s oversight and review of changes to the rules governing the Confirma File and other user group rule books;
• Instructing, managing and liaising with external legal providers.
• Maintaining appropriate work governance methodologies including management of caseload via case management system.
• Liaison with Europe Legal Operations team on case management system use and configuration as well as contract database curation.
• Assisting Europe Legal Transactions, leadership and Operations teams with respect to automation of contract production.
• Attendance at internal client meetings with respect to contract opportunities.
• Attendance at Europe Legal team meetings.
• Maintaining (i) an in-depth knowledge of the contracts, legislation, regulation, industry codes and policy that regulate the use of data assets by TransUnion; and (ii) an expert level understanding of how these impact the business in Spain.
• Being the Data Protection Officer (DPO) for TransUnion’s Spanish operations (including leading on any data incident investigations in Spain (or involving Spanish or Portuguese personal data)).
• Contributing to a knowledge management system in tandem with other team members.
• Advising the business on how data can be used in a compliant way both in the Product and Enterprise Development Lifecycles and in all sales models.
• Supporting (and acting as alternate as required) TransUnion’s representative at external data oversight committees /governing bodies.
• Leading on any internal/external projects in Spain or relating to personal data of Spanish data subjects.
• Leading on and liaising with Product lawyers with respect to product and data protection related matters (e.g. privacy policies and model clauses).
• Providing training and support to the business (in particular, Legal Transactions, Go To Market, Sales Consolidation and Account Management teams) in respect of the use of TransUnion’s data assets, products and services in compliance with data protection legislation, so that other teams can handle first-line data protection queries.
• Liaising with the Solutions and Operations teams as appropriate to assist in their tasks relating to compliant management of TransUnion’s data assets and products.
• Supporting the European Data Governance Office in them exercising their oversight of and support to the Spanish operations.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Self-sufficient and self-starting entrepreneurial mindset supporting a resilient and flexible approach to working in a small but fast-moving team in Madrid while working in a matrix global environment.
• Team player demonstrated by helping out by moving priorities around when necessary to deal with urgent work in Europe Legal and positive attitude to taking on all levels of work.
• Ability to forge good working relationships and communicate well with employees at all levels in the business and with external contacts.
• Ability to explain complicated legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Being able to forge and maintain professional and mutually respectful relationships with key stakeholders (including members of the Sales and Product teams) to facilitate a harmonious working atmosphere.
• Being able to offer commercial as well as legal advice based on commercial experience, while at the same time keeping within TransUnion’s policy and procedure framework.
• A high level of drafting skills.
• Very strong negotiation skills. This is measured against the ability to understand and to explain TransUnion’s standard position on all legal issues in a convincing and persuasive way and to achieve contracts that are in accordance with TransUnion Legal Standards and Procedures including the Client Contract Playbook.
• A thorough knowledge and understanding of the content of and reasons behind the applicable policies and procedures of TransUnion (including those maintained by Europe Legal). Compliance with all such policies and procedures at all times and obtaining approval from line management for any deviation from these.
• Detailed understanding of data protection regime, especially around GDPR as implemented in Spain.
• Sound understanding of other applicable regulatory regimes.
• Having advanced skills in the use of Microsoft Word including being able to produce correspondence and complicated documents in a timely manner.
• Having competent skills in the use of Microsoft Excel in order to produce reports in a timely manner.
• Diligent and proficient in the use of case management systems.
• Excellent English language competency.

Impact You'll Make:

What’s In It For you?

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.

As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:

• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
• Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

TransUnion – a place to grow:

If there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.

We know imposter syndrome is real, lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together

Flexibility at TU:

We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.

Additional support:

At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting ukrecruitment@transunion.com

Interview & Hiring Process:

Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this.

We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies. If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.

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Find out more about Life At TU UK:

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/transunion/life/

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.