Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.
As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.
Role description
Privacy Specialists set and complete tactical or operational plans within Privacy and Data Protection. They set objectives and deliver results that have an impact within the context of a wider operational area within the company.
Privacy Specialists are responsible for a wide range of operational activities including but not limited to addressing complex privacy cases, investigations and requests from data subjects and designing controls and technical measures to mitigate privacy and data protection risks.
They must have great communication skills to proactively inform and involve relevant internal stakeholders (e.g. Customer Service, Legal, Technology, Finance) and appropriate responses to data subjects and data protection authorities.
This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
Perform analysis at the business transaction level to understand what happened, and what mitigation measures are to be taken.
Assist in Privacy-related initiatives and projects as required and support junior privacy specialists, providing guidance and empowering them to develop their skills.
Work effectively with team members and leadership by communicating Privacy trends and sharing ideas and knowledge and create Privacy awareness while maintaining focus on a positive customer experience.
Communicate with internal and external stakeholders and data subjects as required, to respond to questions or requests (Privacy and personal data) as a first point of contact on a global scale.
Support initiatives that improve the company’s risk management practices as it pertains to the processing of personal data.
Lead complex privacy cases by finding and extracting information across networks and systems and support investigations required by inquiries coming from Data Protection Authorities (DPA).
Role Qualifications and Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree
At least 3 years of knowledge and experience with regards to privacy and data protection legislations such as GDPR, LGPD, CCPA, etc
Ability to investigate, retrieve and analyze data
Ability to prioritize incoming escalations and requests appropriately using clear communications
Strong decision making ability and self-disciplined
Strong assertive communication skills
CIPP/E (IAPP) or CIPT certifications are a plus
Benefits & Perks
Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users
Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.
Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
