Counsel I, Data Privacy
Syneos Health · Morrisville, NC · 3 wk ago
On-siteLegal$114k–$255k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions). Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the job description and extract sections.
The posting includes:
- Description (intro about company) - could be "About the role" or "About Syneos Health"? The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have sections: About the role (maybe summarizing company description), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay. Possibly Schedule if present (not mentioned). There's mention of minimal travel up to 15% but not schedule. So we may not include Schedule.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract content.
First, description: "Counsel I, Data Privacy Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support. Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress."
That's a lot of prose. We can put under About the role
with
containing that.
Next, Job Responsibilities: list of responsibilities bullet points. We'll put under
Responsibilities
with - each.
Responsibilities list:
- Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice on data privacy and data protection matters, including regional and state privacy laws and emerging legislative and regulatory developments that may impact the Company’s operations.
- Support regional privacy compliance activities, including required notifications, filings and engagement with regulatory authorities, as needed.
- Advise on privacy aspects relating to employment and recruitment and HR-related privacy notices.
- Draft, review and maintain privacy notices, data processing agreements, data sharing agreements, HIPAA business associate agreements and other privacy documentation supporting the Company’s processing of personal data.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to draft, review and negotiate privacy-related contract terms with customers, vendors and other third parties.
- Advise on marketing, promotional and outreach activities.
- Contribute to the development, implementation and maintenance of Company privacy policies, procedures, processes and training materials.
- Support privacy operational activities, including data subject rights requests, complaints, privacy-by-design reviews, data mapping and mitigation strategies for key business initiatives.
- Support privacy incident response activities, including investigation, assessment, required notifications, remediation support and coordination with the Company’s incident response team.
- Participate in client and vendor meetings, customer audits and regulatory inspections for support related to data privacy.
- Work collaboratively across the Office of the General Counsel, including regional legal teams, to build consensus, improve processes and drive legal projects to completion.
- Support privacy reviews of new technologies and business initiatives, including artificial intelligence, digital health solutions, and other technologies involving personal data.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Minimal travel may be required, up to 15%.
We need to include all.
Next, Qualifications: list bullet points.
Qualifications:
- JD/LLM/LLB or an equivalent degree from an accredited university
- Fully qualified lawyer
- Industry certifications e.g. CIPP/US, CIPT, CIPM, AIGP (or equivalent)
- Additional Qualifications (maybe a heading but we can treat as bullet list)
- Proven experience in a multinational company or law firm
- Strong knowledge and experience in application of privacy law
- Strong knowledge of contracts and commercial laws in assigned region/country
- Ability to collaborate with colleagues and take a business-oriented approach while identifying and balancing legal risks and providing succinct, accurate and pragmatic advice
- Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams
- Outstanding relationship-building skills
- Exceptional analytical skills, independent judgment, a desire to learn, and an ability to take on and prioritize a wide variety of complex matters
- Can-do attitude, able to work under pressure, manage tight deadlines and a high volume of competing priorities
We could separate Qualifications and Skills sections. The instruction says we can have sections Qualifications and Skills. The posting includes "Qualifications" and also "Critical Skills". So we can have Qualifications (education, certifications, experience) and Skills (critical skills). Let's extract.
Critical Skills:
- Significant experience advising on US federal and state privacy and digital marketing law, preferably within the pharmaceutical, healthcare or life-sciences sector, including HIPAA/HITECH, FTC Act and FTC health-privacy requirements, CAN-SPAM, TCPA/FCC requirements, DOJ Final Rule, CCPA/CPRA and other US state comprehensive and consumer health-data privacy and breach notification laws.
- Experience advising on FDA-regulated programs, including REMS, is strongly preferred.
We could put these under Skills.
Also there is "US ONLY Years Of Experience Required 6 years of related experience". That's a qualification/experience requirement. Could be under Qualifications or Requirements. We'll include under Qualifications maybe as bullet: "6 years of related experience (US ONLY)". Also Physical Requirements and Work Environment: these are details but maybe we can include under a section like "Requirements" or "Additional Details". However instruction says we should prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could incorporate physical requirements and work environment into a "Requirements" section (maybe as prose). But we already have Qualifications and Skills. Could add a "Requirements" section for physical requirements and work environment. However we need to see if that is considered substantive. It includes details like ability to occasionally move about, maintain stationary position, manipulate office items, operate computer, perceive written materials, communicate, work environment professional office, low noise, largely sedentary. That's substantive. We could include under a section "Requirements". But we already have Qualifications and Skills; maybe we can merge physical requirements into Qualifications as bullet? Might be okay.
But we need to avoid filler/placeholder text. The physical requirements are specific, not placeholder.
We also have benefits: "The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements."
That's substantive benefits. So we need a Benefits section.
Pay: "Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $255,400.00 The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role."
That's substantive pay. So we need Pay section.
Schedule: Not mentioned besides minimal travel up to 15% (not schedule). So we omit Schedule.
Now we need to remove boilerplate: duplicated lines like "Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive..." appears multiple times; also EEO statements, etc. We should remove those.
Also remove "Get to know Syneos Health Over the past 5 years..." maybe that's also boilerplate but it's substantive about company achievements; could be included under About the role? It's more about company stats. Might be considered substantive but could be considered boilerplate? It's not typical legal boilerplate; it's about company achievements. Might keep as part of About the role.
But we need to preserve all substantive information; we can include that under About the role as additional prose.
Also "Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com" maybe we can keep as a link? But instruction says output only HTML fragment, we can include maybe. However they said remove application instructions; this is not application instruction but a link. Might keep.
But we need to be careful not to include navigation/footer etc.
Let's craft sections:
About the role
... (company description, purpose, etc.)
Responsibilities
- ... each responsibility
Qualifications
- ... each qualification bullet
Skills
- ... each critical skill bullet
Benefits
... benefits description
Pay
... salary range description
We might also include a short paragraph for "Physical Requirements and Work Environment" maybe under Qualifications or a separate Requirements section. But we already have Qualifications and Skills; we could add a "Requirements" section for physical requirements and work environment. However instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Adding another section may be okay if it's substantive. But we could incorporate physical requirements into Qualifications as bullet points. Let's see if that would be too many bullets but still okay.
Qualifications currently includes education, certifications, experience, additional qualifications (experience, knowledge, abilities). Adding physical requirements may be okay.
But we also have "US ONLY Years Of Experience Required 6 years of related experience". That's a qualification.
Thus Qualifications bullets:
- JD/LLM/LLB or an equivalent degree from an accredited university
- Fully qualified lawyer
- Industry certifications e.g. CIPP/US, CIPT, CIPM, AIGP (or equivalent)
- 6 years of related experience (US ONLY)
- Proven experience in a multinational company or law firm
- Strong knowledge and experience in application of privacy law
- Strong knowledge of contracts and commercial laws in assigned region/country
- Ability to collaborate with colleagues and take a business-oriented approach while identifying and balancing legal risks and providing succinct, accurate and pragmatic advice
- Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams
- Outstanding relationship-building skills
- Exceptional
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions). Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the job description and extract sections. The posting includes: - Description (intro about company) - could be "About the role" or "About Syneos Health"? The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have sections: About the role (maybe summarizing company description), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay. Possibly Schedule if present (not mentioned). There's mention of minimal travel up to 15% but not schedule. So we may not include Schedule.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract content.
First, description: "Counsel I, Data Privacy Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support. Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress."
That's a lot of prose. We can put under About the role
with
containing that. Next, Job Responsibilities: list of responsibilities bullet points. We'll put under
Responsibilities
with- each.
Responsibilities list:
- Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice on data privacy and data protection matters, including regional and state privacy laws and emerging legislative and regulatory developments that may impact the Company’s operations.
- Support regional privacy compliance activities, including required notifications, filings and engagement with regulatory authorities, as needed.
- Advise on privacy aspects relating to employment and recruitment and HR-related privacy notices.
- Draft, review and maintain privacy notices, data processing agreements, data sharing agreements, HIPAA business associate agreements and other privacy documentation supporting the Company’s processing of personal data.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to draft, review and negotiate privacy-related contract terms with customers, vendors and other third parties.
- Advise on marketing, promotional and outreach activities.
- Contribute to the development, implementation and maintenance of Company privacy policies, procedures, processes and training materials.
- Support privacy operational activities, including data subject rights requests, complaints, privacy-by-design reviews, data mapping and mitigation strategies for key business initiatives.
- Support privacy incident response activities, including investigation, assessment, required notifications, remediation support and coordination with the Company’s incident response team.
- Participate in client and vendor meetings, customer audits and regulatory inspections for support related to data privacy.
- Work collaboratively across the Office of the General Counsel, including regional legal teams, to build consensus, improve processes and drive legal projects to completion.
- Support privacy reviews of new technologies and business initiatives, including artificial intelligence, digital health solutions, and other technologies involving personal data.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Minimal travel may be required, up to 15%.
We need to include all.
Next, Qualifications: list bullet points.
Qualifications:
- JD/LLM/LLB or an equivalent degree from an accredited university
- Fully qualified lawyer
- Industry certifications e.g. CIPP/US, CIPT, CIPM, AIGP (or equivalent)
- Additional Qualifications (maybe a heading but we can treat as bullet list)
- Proven experience in a multinational company or law firm
- Strong knowledge and experience in application of privacy law
- Strong knowledge of contracts and commercial laws in assigned region/country
- Ability to collaborate with colleagues and take a business-oriented approach while identifying and balancing legal risks and providing succinct, accurate and pragmatic advice
- Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams
- Outstanding relationship-building skills
- Exceptional analytical skills, independent judgment, a desire to learn, and an ability to take on and prioritize a wide variety of complex matters
- Can-do attitude, able to work under pressure, manage tight deadlines and a high volume of competing priorities
We could separate Qualifications and Skills sections. The instruction says we can have sections Qualifications and Skills. The posting includes "Qualifications" and also "Critical Skills". So we can have Qualifications (education, certifications, experience) and Skills (critical skills). Let's extract.
Critical Skills:
- Significant experience advising on US federal and state privacy and digital marketing law, preferably within the pharmaceutical, healthcare or life-sciences sector, including HIPAA/HITECH, FTC Act and FTC health-privacy requirements, CAN-SPAM, TCPA/FCC requirements, DOJ Final Rule, CCPA/CPRA and other US state comprehensive and consumer health-data privacy and breach notification laws.
- Experience advising on FDA-regulated programs, including REMS, is strongly preferred.
We could put these under Skills.
Also there is "US ONLY Years Of Experience Required 6 years of related experience". That's a qualification/experience requirement. Could be under Qualifications or Requirements. We'll include under Qualifications maybe as bullet: "6 years of related experience (US ONLY)". Also Physical Requirements and Work Environment: these are details but maybe we can include under a section like "Requirements" or "Additional Details". However instruction says we should prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could incorporate physical requirements and work environment into a "Requirements" section (maybe as prose). But we already have Qualifications and Skills. Could add a "Requirements" section for physical requirements and work environment. However we need to see if that is considered substantive. It includes details like ability to occasionally move about, maintain stationary position, manipulate office items, operate computer, perceive written materials, communicate, work environment professional office, low noise, largely sedentary. That's substantive. We could include under a section "Requirements". But we already have Qualifications and Skills; maybe we can merge physical requirements into Qualifications as bullet? Might be okay.
But we need to avoid filler/placeholder text. The physical requirements are specific, not placeholder.
We also have benefits: "The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements."
That's substantive benefits. So we need a Benefits section.
Pay: "Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $255,400.00 The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role."
That's substantive pay. So we need Pay section.
Schedule: Not mentioned besides minimal travel up to 15% (not schedule). So we omit Schedule.
Now we need to remove boilerplate: duplicated lines like "Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive..." appears multiple times; also EEO statements, etc. We should remove those.
Also remove "Get to know Syneos Health Over the past 5 years..." maybe that's also boilerplate but it's substantive about company achievements; could be included under About the role? It's more about company stats. Might be considered substantive but could be considered boilerplate? It's not typical legal boilerplate; it's about company achievements. Might keep as part of About the role.
But we need to preserve all substantive information; we can include that under About the role as additional prose.
Also "Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com" maybe we can keep as a link? But instruction says output only HTML fragment, we can include maybe. However they said remove application instructions; this is not application instruction but a link. Might keep.
But we need to be careful not to include navigation/footer etc.
Let's craft sections:
About the role
... (company description, purpose, etc.)
Responsibilities
- ... each responsibility
Qualifications
- ... each qualification bullet
Skills
- ... each critical skill bullet
Benefits
... benefits description
Pay
... salary range description
We might also include a short paragraph for "Physical Requirements and Work Environment" maybe under Qualifications or a separate Requirements section. But we already have Qualifications and Skills; we could add a "Requirements" section for physical requirements and work environment. However instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Adding another section may be okay if it's substantive. But we could incorporate physical requirements into Qualifications as bullet points. Let's see if that would be too many bullets but still okay. Qualifications currently includes education, certifications, experience, additional qualifications (experience, knowledge, abilities). Adding physical requirements may be okay. But we also have "US ONLY Years Of Experience Required 6 years of related experience". That's a qualification. Thus Qualifications bullets: - JD/LLM/LLB or an equivalent degree from an accredited university - Fully qualified lawyer - Industry certifications e.g. CIPP/US, CIPT, CIPM, AIGP (or equivalent) - 6 years of related experience (US ONLY) - Proven experience in a multinational company or law firm - Strong knowledge and experience in application of privacy law - Strong knowledge of contracts and commercial laws in assigned region/country - Ability to collaborate with colleagues and take a business-oriented approach while identifying and balancing legal risks and providing succinct, accurate and pragmatic advice - Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams - Outstanding relationship-building skills - Exceptional