Data Protection Consultant

Approach Cyber is a pure-play cyber security and privacy company.

Approach Cyber has been providing cyber security services to international clients for over 20 years and employs around one hundred experts in the field.
This is our vision, our aspiration for a society where each and every one is reassured, where there is confidence and security in the digital world. Therefore, our role is to bring cyber serenity to society.

Every day, we take care of our clients’ cyber security while they focus on their business. We help them to prevent, withstand and recover from cyber security incidents and enable them to keep their full attention on their core activities.

We are committed to delivering top-notch services : consulting and audit, training and awareness, security technology integration and software development. Approach is also a true Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) thanks to our shared Security Operations Centre (SOC).


We are looking for a Senior Data Protection Consultant to integrate our Privacy & Data Governance team.
In other words, Approach is a major player in Data Protection and Data Governance and is quickly evolving.

We are therefore actively looking for people who have the ambition to participate in the development of the data protection department at Approach, while advising clients from various sizes and sectors, helping them improve their privacy and risk management maturity, providing top-notch legal expertise as well as governance recommendations.

You will have the opportunity to grow your expertise by getting acquainted and/or certified in recognized INDUSTRY and privacy STANDARDS (ISO 27001, ISO 31700, Europrivacy certifications, etc.) You will join a small team with all levels of seniority. Provide high value services to customers in the light of Approach’s data protection offering/business:
Bring your knowledge and energy on different steps of data protection projects, autonomously or within the team.
Advise on all aspects of data privacy.
Participate in the development of Data Privacy Impact Assessments (DPIA) and supervise their implementation.
Monitor compliance with the international and local data protection legislations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, e-privacy directive, Data Governance Act, …)
Drive privacy compliance audits.
Train employees involved in data processing activities.
With your cybersecurity colleagues, be part of our emergency team to respond to client's cyber crisis.

As our team is growing, we will also expect from you to quickly (or immediatly, depending on your experience) take internal responsibilities like (for example):

Actively contributing to the development of tools and methodologies used by your team.
Being responsible for the regulation watch on Privacy topics and sharing your knowledge about sector news to your team.
Following and coaching junior colleagues on your specific expertise and evolve to the human management of your Privacy team.
Contribute to the team's profitability and progressively take the leadership on it (P&L responsibilities).

Recognized Data Privacy Officer certifications
OR any other training, certifications, Executive Master, … in the frame of data protection or cybersecurity.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar function (DPO, Assistant DPO, Privacy officer, Data Protection Consultant, Legal Counsel, …)
Interest in Data Protection technologies and how they link to Data Privacy
English and (French OR Dutch) is a must have. The ability to speak/write/listen to one of the main belgian national languages is mandatory.
True communicator with Business level communication skills: to make complex legal or data protection concepts easy to understand by a business or a technical audience, and to interact with C-level, to work with legal, GRC and IT departments, to challenge technical implementations and to understand business needs.

Ability to understand senior management considerations (strategic level) and ability to help them in their decision.
Exposure to security audit, as auditor, auditee, remediation owner
Exposure to (security) incident response and crisis management

Willingness to provide high quality deliverables and to go the extra mile.
Participate in the development of the company as a co-creator of innovative solutions
~ For employees] Develop your career path and add top-level trainings and certifications to your CV
~[32 days holiday/year (on a fulltime equivalent basis)
~ Flexible home working policy
~ Note that this position is also open to long term freelancers.
Fun company events, exclusive team experiences
Contribute to a safer, fairer world for data subjects and citizens, ensure the serenity of great businesses and essential public institutions
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