Privacy Analyst

TJX Companies

At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You'll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you're working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores-TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you'll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family-a Fortune 100 company and the world's leading off-price retailer.

Job Description:

The Privacy Analyst is responsible for assisting with the execution of TJX's global privacy, data protection and records management functions. As a member of our growing Privacy and Data protection team you will play a key role identifying and assisting leadership in mitigating risk associated with privacy, information management, and other regulatory requirements. Internal candidates with proven cross functional/divisional collaboration, developed communication and organization skills along with strong attention to detail will be given consideration. This is a hybrid position requiring 2 days a week on site in our Marlborough, MA headquarters.

What You Will Do:

• Assists with the daily global privacy and compliance program functions to include:
  • responding to specific compliance-related questions and incidents
  • helping specific groups remediate findings in privacy assessments
  • evaluating privacy impact of business proposals involving personal information
• Helps ensure that privacy and compliance issues are appropriately raised and identified risks are mitigated.
• Collaborates with associates in various departments throughout the company globally to gather information, promote the goals of the privacy and compliance program, and conduct research and assessments.
• Facilitates the creation of various privacy related documentation.
• Stays current on privacy, data protection, and other compliance standard processes and current issues including regular review of articles and websites on developments in privacy, data protection and other compliance related realms.
• Other duties as assigned.

• 1-2 years compliance, privacy, legal, merchandise operations, IT support, or other relevant internal experience
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience
• Working knowledge of privacy and/or data protection issues, laws, and regulations a plus
• Comfortable collaborating and partnering with all levels across business functions including Legal, Loss Prevention, IT, Marketing, HR, and others
• Experience working with global IT functions like Data Security and Architecture is a plus
• Outstanding critical thinking skills
• Pragmatic thinker with practical commonsense approach
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Developed presentation skills, both verbal and written
• Highly organized with attention to detail, and able to prioritize multiple work streams concurrently
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office and other Microsoft platform technologies (e.g., SharePoint)