Junior GDPR Specialist

We are looking for a Junior GDPR Specialist to join our Legal team in Poznań.

If you care about data privacy and want to make a meaningful impact on how an international company manages personal data, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

Take your data protection expertise to the next level - apply for the role today!

Your future team: 

As a Junior GDPR Specialist, you’ll be part of the international ROCKWOOL Group Legal and Compliance team supporting the business in more than 20 legal areas of responsibility. We work closely with local legal counsels, data privacy coordinators, and compliance managers across the ROCKWOOL Group.

You will closely collaborate with GDPR Compliance Specialist based in Poznań, who is in charge of ensuring ongoing compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant privacy laws throughout the ROCKWOOL Group. It means you will be involved in real-world GDPR challenges and will be able to contribute directly to keeping ROCKWOOL a trusted and responsible business.

What you will be doing: 

You’ll help drive the execution of ROCKWOOL’s data privacy strategy, shaping and promoting best practices that protect our business. Your expertise will directly influence how we build a strong culture of data protection across the organization.

More specifically, you will: 

• Advise on data protection requirements and standards across all aspects of the business, with particular emphasis on digital solutions.
• Provide legal advice for business units around the world regarding data processing activities, data transfers, and privacy risks.
• Engage in new business initiatives to secure their alignment with privacy laws.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business, including IT, HR, Procurement, and legal advisors outside the organization.
• Perform privacy impact assessments and data mapping activities using our tailor-made digital tools.
• Monitor the sharing of personal data within the ROCKWOOL Group and ensure that applicable transfer mechanisms are established and followed.
• Prepare and implement improvements by updating our policies, manuals, procedures, and templates.
• Deliver data protection training to employees and raise awareness across the organization by designing data privacy campaigns.
• Ensure ROCKWOOL responds appropriately to data subject access requests and manages personal data breaches, including maintaining accurate reporting and documentation.

What you bring: 

• Master’s degree, preferably in law, but other relevant degrees can also be considered,
• Experience in a similar role, ideally in an international company,
• Fluent spoken and written English,
• Great communication skills, ability to convey complicated legal matters simply and engagingly, regardless of the audience,
• Business-oriented approach: open mind for opportunities for improvement and simplification where possible,
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multicultural environment,
• Eagerness to learn and self-development,
• Good organization and diligence at work,
• Willingness to travel periodically for business purposes.

What we offer:  

By joining our team, you become a part of the people-centric work environment of a Danish company. We offer you a competitive salary, permanent contract after the probation period, development package, team building events, activity-based office in Poznan’s city center in the new prestigious office building – Nowy Rynek. The building is recognized as a building without barriers, which means that it is fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities. 

Our compensation package on employment contracts includes:    

• An office-first approach: home office is available up to 2 days per week
• Adaptable Hours: start your workday anytime between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM
• Home office subsidy 
• Private Medical Care 
• Multikafeteria MyBenefit 
• Wellbeing program 
• Extra Day Off for voluntary activities 

… and while in the office you can also use modern office space with beautiful view and high standard furniture, bicycle parking facilities & showers, chill-out rooms with PlayStation, football table, pool table, board games, subsidized canteen with delicious food & fruit. 

Ready to apply?   

If you find this position interesting, please do not hesitate to submit your application and CV in English.  

Who we are   

At ROCKWOOL, everything we do is based on releasing the natural power of stone to enrich modern living. We help our customers and communities tackle many of today’s biggest sustainability and development challenges, from energy consumption and noise pollution to fire resilience, water scarcity and flooding. Our product range reflects the diversity of the world’s needs, while supporting our stakeholders in reducing their own carbon footprint. 

Stone wool is a recyclable, versatile material that forms the basis of all our businesses. With ~11,800 dedicated colleagues in 37 countries and sales in more than 120, we are the world leader in stone wool products, from building insulation to acoustic ceilings, external cladding systems to horticultural solutions, customised stone wool insulation components for other manufacturers’ products and systems (OEM), to insulation for the process industry and marine & offshore. 

Sustainability is central to our business strategy.  ROCKWOOL was one of the first companies to commit to actively contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) framework and are actively committed to 11 SDGs, including SDG 14, Life Below Water.  Through our partnership with the One Ocean Foundation and in connection with our sponsorship of the Denmark SailGP team, we will help raise awareness around ocean health challenges in an effort to accelerate solutions to protect it. 

Diverse and Inclusive Culture   

We want all our people to feel valued, respected, included and heard.  We employ 79 different nationalities worldwide and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees, promote diversity, and work against all forms of discrimination among ROCKWOOL employees.   

At ROCKWOOL, you will experience a friendly team environment. Our culture is very important to us.  In fact, we refer to our culture as “The ROCKWOOL Way”.  This is the foundation in which we operate and is based upon our values of ambition, responsibility, integrity and efficiency.