What are the responsibilities and job description for the Privacy Analyst position at NRG Energy?
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Position Overview
NRG is seeking aPrivacy Analyst to partner closely with multiple levels of the business to enhance our dynamic and constantly evolving privacy program. You will help build privacy-by-design processes, identify and address gaps, and lead privacy risk assessments in concert with legal counsel and technical staff. This is a unique opportunity that will allow you to interact with a diverse cross-section of our company. You will be expected to build upon our legacy of thoughtful and privacy-conscious innovation.
This position is ideal for an individual seeking to leverage their experience in privacy, is inquisitive, and excited about our vision to enable NRG to power a dynamic future in smart energy through transparent, ethical, and innovative uses of personal data. We are passionate about data privacy, and the right candidate for this role should be too!
Essential Responsibilities
- Conducts data privacy impact assessments, audits, and analyses and identifies areas requiring privacy-related improvements in product and service development and business operations and enhancements to achieve privacy goals.
- Matures the NRG Privacy Office working with technology solutions / tools to scale the privacy program's strategic and tactical operations.
- Monitors and evaluates evolving privacy laws, rules, regulations, and industry best practices to help maintain program compliance, differentiation, and strategic alignment.
- Partners with the brands and departments to centralize NRG's privacy-by-design principles and processes.
- Assists in leading dynamic cross-functional efforts that ensure NRG maintains industry-leading practices in protecting personal data.
- Collaborates with product and engineering teams to draft and implement privacy controls for use by the brands throughout the product or service life cycle.
- Promotes privacy best practices for customer, employee, partner, and vendor privacy.
- Assists in responding to internal and external privacy related inquiries and investigations, as well as provide support for privacy defensibility and readiness.
- Works with Data Governance to enhance our data lake by meticulous data mapping and data inventorying.
- Interacts with Cybersecurity on data retention / destruction and records management program and to implement privacy-related controls and improve privacy incident management.
- Coordinates privacy training and awareness activities including work with privacy champions group, special projects, and privacy initiatives across the enterprise.
- Uses strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills and ability to organize and prioritize work and meet deadlines.
Qualifications
Minimum
Preferred
Why NRG is a great place to work :
NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M / F / Protected Veteran Status / Disability. Level, Title and / or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.
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