Ogc / Tech Manager

Management Level : Manager

Job Description & Summary : At PwC, our people in legal services offer comprehensive legal solutions and advice to internal stakeholders and clients, maintaining compliance with regulations and minimising legal risks. These individuals provide strategic guidance and support across various industries.

In legal specialties at PwC, you will focus on legal support and advice across specific areas of law, confirming compliance and mitigating legal risks for the organisation. Your work will involve a wide range of specific legal matters and collaboration with different teams to drive business objectives.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop, and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team members' unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

1. Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
2. Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
3. Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
4. Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
5. Effectively mentor others.
6. Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
7. Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
8. Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Primary responsibilities for this role: This role reports to the Associate Director responsible for Data Protection, Technology and Intellectual Property ("IP"), which is a key pillar within the PwC in-house legal team that is instrumental in supporting the Firm to achieve one of its strategic goals of becoming an increasingly digitally enabled business.

The role requires:

1. A sound knowledge of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 ("POPIA") and the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and the application thereof in agreements, software applications and the development of software tools.

Day to day activities will include:

1. Address Data Protection queries, conduct legal research and provide opinions;
2. Conduct Data Protection Risk Assessments;
3. Deal with Data Incidents;
4. Deal with Data Subject Access Requests;
5. Complete Data Privacy questionnaires;
6. Prepare internal data privacy related communications.

Sound knowledge of laws and regulations that are applicable to technology and its developments, most notably in Artificial Intelligence and the ability to stay abreast of regulatory developments that may affect the PwC business.

The ability to support the drafting, reviewing and negotiating of agreements for the acquisition of software (i.e. mainly license agreements) for internal use and reselling, the implementation of software solutions at clients and collaboration with software providers.

The ability to consult with business to identify their needs and to find practical and compliant solutions to their challenges.

Basic knowledge of IP such as copyright and trademarks.

Competencies / Skills:

1. Relevant professional qualification (e.g. Bachelor of Laws (LLB));
2. Admission as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa;
3. 2 – 4 years' PQE commercial legal experience;
4. Solid and demonstrable understanding of commercial and contract law and technology, data protection and intellectual property, both from a pragmatic and legal perspective.
5. An ability to identify and articulate potential legal and/or regulatory concerns.
6. Professional services experience advantageous.
7. Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
8. The ability to think critically and solve complex problems efficiently and practically.
9. Self-motivated and attention to detail.
10. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to interact with staff at various levels and based in various countries around the world.
11. Strong interpersonal skills.
12. Ability to multitask and prioritize.
13. Analytical and solution driven.
14. Pro-active and committed to delivery.
15. Excellent time management skills.
16. Curious and driven to find practical/commercial solutions to complex problems.

Travel Requirements: Up to 20%

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