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Employee in Data Protection | 80-100%
- Publication date:14 November 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Basel
Job summary
Join the Operational Risk Management team in Switzerland! Focus on data protection regulations and enjoy a collaborative work culture.
Tasks
- Support the team in implementing data protection requirements effectively.
- Coordinate responses to data privacy incidents and mitigate risks.
- Conduct training and create documentation for data protection compliance.
Skills
- You need a law degree or similar, ideally linked to data protection.
- Strong communication skills and analytical thinking are essential.
- Must be a dynamic team player with a service-oriented mindset.
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About the job
Your Job in Brief
- You support the Operational Risk Management team in the Swiss market unit (excluding bank).
- You ensure that the regulatory external and internal requirements in the area of data protection are implemented.
- You bring strong communication skills.
What Awaits You
Your main task is to ensure that the regulatory external and internal requirements in the area of data protection are appropriately and efficiently implemented in the organization to minimize the risk of sanctions and fines by regulators and legislators.
In detail, you support the Operational Risk Management team in the area of data protection in the Swiss market unit (excluding bank) in operationally implementing and monitoring the external and internal data protection requirements.
Specific tasks include:
- As part of the data protection office at the Swiss location, you advise and support management and specialist departments within the Swiss market unit in the life and non-life sectors on data protection issues in close cooperation with the data protection officer.
- You are the registered data protection officer for the foundations.
- You are responsible for coordinating measures in the event of data protection incidents, ensuring effective risk minimization, and supporting the reporting of data protection incidents to supervisory authorities.
- You create data protection documentation and risk assessments (e.g., data protection impact assessments, processing records, data protection information).
- You support the legally compliant response to requests regarding data subject rights.
- You are responsible for conducting training and awareness measures on data protection.
What We Expect
You think entrepreneurially by performing your tasks efficiently and creating real added value for internal and external customers with your service-oriented approach.
You have good empathy and bring different interests together thanks to your strong communication skills. You work independently, are a dynamic team player, and know how to actively expand your network.
You enjoy working both independently and as part of a team. You are curious and continue to educate yourself. You can express your opinion constructively and appreciatively, question existing things, and contribute new ideas around change processes.
Your professional qualifications:
- A completed law degree or a comparable education, ideally related to data protection
- Several years of experience in data protection within a financial institution, ideally in an insurance company with a focus on data protection
- Sound knowledge of data protection law
- Very good German and good English skills, both spoken and written
- Strong analytical and solution-oriented thinking
