Compliance and Privacy Advisor

Your contribution to TenneT

As Privacy Officer, you will:

• Support the privacy champions in various departments with keeping their processing activities complete and up to date, critically reviewing and advising on matters such as legal ground, data minimization, access management, and retention periods;
• Onboard new suppliers that process personal data on TenneT’s behalf and review the existing ones, ensuring that the correct privacy and (security) measures are agreed upon and upheld;
• Provide support in projects and tenders where new processes or systems are introduced that will process personal data, and which must be set up within appropriate privacy frameworks;
• Support units in conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs);

As Compliance & Integrity Advisor, you will:

• Contribute to the further development of the CMS and its conceptual improvement;
• Provide advice to all employees on compliance & integrity matters;
• Give guidance in the context of TenneT’s internal and external stakeholders;
• Prepare, create content for and deliver Compliance trainings, workshops and feedback sessions with employees and (senior) leaders.

Jouw profiel en achtergrond

As a Compliance and Privacy Advisor you will:

• Have an academic background (HBO or WO), master degree or a comparable university education in a relevant field of study, e.g. law, business administration, IT, etc.;
• Gained a minimum of 3 years of high-quality experience as a privacy and/or compliance professional in a related or relevant industry;
• Understand and have good knowledge of corporate privacy and/or compliance topics and best practices; preferably hold CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, or similar certification;
• Maintain a high degree of (personal) integrity to be considered a trusted partner on privacy, as well as compliance and integrity matters;
• Communicate strongly - both oral and written;
• Be approachable, proactive, independent, confident yet collaborative - so: be a real asset to the team!

This will be our challenge

The ARC unit consists of the audit, risk, internal control and compliance & integrity teams. We proactively support the TenneT organization in continuously strengthening audit, risk and compliance identification and mitigation.

AI and more about TenneT

Since we use AI as part of our recruiting process, we would like to create transparency and clarity at this point. The AI serves exclusively as a supporting and recommending tool to make our processes even faster and more efficient. At no time are automated decisions made. TenneT is a leading European grid operator. We are committed to providing a secure and reliable supply of electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, while helping to drive the energy transition in our pursuit of a brighter energy future – more sustainable, reliable and affordable than ever before. In our role as the first cross-border Transmission System Operator (TSO) we design, build, maintain and operate over 25,000 kilometres of high-voltage electricity grid in the Netherlands and large parts of Germany, and facilitate the European energy market through our 17 interconnectors to neighbouring countries. We are one of the largest investors in national and international onshore and offshore electricity grids, with a turnover of EUR 9.2 billion and a total asset value of EUR 45 billion. Every day our 8,300 employees take...