Director - Privacy Job at Sentry Insurance
This position works on a hybrid-basis out of our Stevens Point, WI corporate office. A relocation bonus may be provided.
What You'll Do
Develops short-term and long-term business strategies. Leverages team and partnerships to execute strategic plans and objectives, ensuring alignment with business needs. Acts as a strategic partner and collaborates extensively with multiple business areas to direct, prepare, and/or review privacy operations.
Establishes vision and requirements for procedures and processes to effectively manage privacy activities, while ensuring compliance with regulations. These procedures and processes are implemented and maintained by the privacy team, which the director has ultimate accountability for. As part of this, the director determines best practice alignment goals and direction in support of regulatory and customer requirements.
Establishes and maintains strong relationships with business stakeholders across the organization to convey privacy requirements and maintain knowledge on data collection and use cases. Identifies and manages implementation of process and system modifications for data handling, ensuring alignment with external regulations and internal policies.
Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate and drive a privacy plan that maximizes value and minimizes risk. Develops and manages data governance structures, ensuring technologies maintain privacy protection for the use, collection, and disclosure of personal information.
Advises IT and Security development teams on system fixes, modifications, and enhancements to conform to privacy- by-design principles and meet business needs.
Partners with GRC management in leading the development, implementation, and ongoing compliance monitoring of external vendors and third-parties, to ensure appropriate controls are in place to protect personally identifiable information and address all privacy concerns, requirements, and responsibilities.
Monitors and advises stakeholders across the organization on changes to state and federal privacy laws and accreditation standards to ensure impacted areas are aware of pending changes and possible impacts to the business. Monitors and manages implementation of modifications to privacy technologies to ensure proper adoption across the organization.
Directs various privacy projects that involve researching, interpreting, summarizing and communicating with various departments within the company and numerous outside sources.
Additional Responsibilities:
Provides recommendations to the Information Governance Steering Committee, ensuring consistent application of sanctions for failure to comply with privacy and information security policies by employees, contractors and vendors.
Administers human resource-related activities including timely performance and salary reviews and ensures all subordinates adhere to human resources policies and practices. Selects, develops, motivates, and recognizes staff.
Collaborates with security management on the refinement of the breach/security incident response plan, and assists with the resolution associated with such breaches, as necessary.
Performs initial and periodic privacy impact and information privacy risk assessments on the organization to ensure the protection of all personally identifiable information and adherence to privacy regulations.
Identifies training opportunities and works with Corporate personnel to develop or modify existing training programs and materials, ensuring associates and third parties receive proper privacy related training.
Controls expenses to contribute to the overall goals of the department.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned from time to time.
What It Takes
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
Minimum 10 years related work experience
Professional designations/certifications highly preferred, specifically CIPP/US, CIPM, CISSP, CISA, or CISM
High level of credibility, with an accomplished background in privacy, preferably in environments with similar complexity and regulatory profiles to Sentry Insurance, spanning the financial services and insurance industries.
Ability to build and develop the appropriate team that delivers on key objectives and navigates the privacy landscape. Builds constructive relationships with diverse groups of people, including internal and external stakeholders in order to gain buy-in for the program and support for execution and delivery.
Proven experience influencing and clearly communicating privacy requirements and risk. Strong communication, human relation, organizational, and analytical skills.
Ability to communicate privacy-related concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff. Demonstrated experience planning, developing, and implementing large projects.
Associates must have the ability to travel as necessary to satisfactorily complete their job responsibilities as assigned.
What You'll Receive
We take great pride in making Forbes’ list of America’s Best Midsize Employers since 2017. A lot of different factors go into that honor, many of which contribute to your job satisfaction. At Sentry, your total rewards go beyond competitive compensation. Below are some benefits and perks that you’ll receive.
To best support our associates and our culture, Sentry is happy to offer flexibility through a scheduled work from home (Monday and Friday)/in office days (Tuesday through Thursday) after we begin to return to the office.
Generous Paid-Time Off plan for you to enjoy time out of the office.
401(K) plan with a dollar for dollar match on your first eight percent, plus immediate vesting to help strengthen your financial future.
Group Medical, Dental, Vision and Life insurance to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Pretax Dependent Care and Health Expense Reimbursement Accounts to ease taxes on health spending.
Extensive Work-Life Resources to lend a helping hand.
Sentry Foundation gift matching program to encourage charitable giving. Continue your education and career development through Sentry University (SentryU).
How You’ll Apply
If you are interested in joining Sentry’s team, select the one position that you are most interested in being considered for and complete your online application details. If you have applied with us before, you will only need to provide your email address and password. If this is your first time applying, you’ll need to create an account. Please complete your application and upload your resume online.
About Sentry
All of us at Sentry—more than 4,000 associates—have various talents, skills, and backgrounds. We work together to deliver on our promises to our policyholders every day. We’re proud to offer a full line of property, casualty, and life insurance products to help protect businesses, cars, homes, lives, and retirement income.
Our headquarters is in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, with claims and service offices located throughout the United States. From sales to claims, and information technology to marketing, we enjoy a rewarding and challenging work environment with opportunities for ongoing professional development and growth.
Our bright future is built on a long track record of success. We got our start in 1904 and have been helping businesses succeed and protect their futures ever since. Because of the trust placed in us, we’re one of the largest and financially strongest mutual insurance companies in the United States. We’re rated A+ by A.M. Best, the industry's leading rating authority. Get ready to own your future at Sentry. Opportunities await.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Thank you for your interest in Sentry!
Katelynne Rivera
KATELYNNE.RIVERA@SENTRY.COM
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sentry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy that there be no discrimination in employment based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, marital status, or sexual orientation.
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