As an External Data Protection Officer (DPO), playing a crucial role in ensuring GDPR compliance across various industries. Dirk provides valuable expert guidance and support to multiple companies, helping them navigate the complexities of data protection regulations.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of GDPR compliance programs for clients, ensuring that all data processing activities align with regulatory requirements.
• Conduct audits to assess the effectiveness of data protection measures and identify risks and areas for improvement.
• Draft and update data protection policies, procedures, and guidelines tailored to the specific needs of each client.
• Deliver training sessions to educate employees on GDPR principles and best practices for data protection.
• Identify potential data protection risks and develop strategies to mitigate them, ensuring clients are prepared for any data breaches or incidents.
• Act as the main point of contact for data protection inquiries, providing expert advice to clients on a wide range of issues related to data privacy.
• Maintain comprehensive records of data processing activities, prepare reports for regulatory authorities, and assist in responding to any data subject access requests or complaints.

Industries served:

• Event: Advising on data protection for attendee information, event registrations, and marketing activities.
• Production: Ensuring the secure handling of employee and vendor data, particularly in supply chain management.
• Healthcare: Consulting with regard to sensitive patient data with strict adherence to confidentiality and privacy laws.
• Education: Protecting student and staff information, while ensuring compliance with education sector-specific regulations.
• E-commerce: Safeguarding customer data during online transactions and digital marketing efforts.
• Consulting: Providing tailored data protection strategies for clients across various sectors, ensuring that consultancy practices are aligned with GDPR standards.

Contact for departments and local data protection officers, data subjects, customers and supervisory authorities on data protection issues (EMEA region), e.g. on projects. Review and preparation of contracts and data protection declarations as well as assessment of data protection issues for new business ideas and IT solutions. In particular representing the Data Privacy Officer in the area of IT, Finance, Site Management, Health Services and Tax

Contact for data subjects, customers and supervisory authorities, departments and the global network of local data protection officers on all data protection issues. Review of contracts and management and optimization of the processing directory. Review of data protection issues for new business ideas and IT solutions. Development and implementation of risk-based and automated data protection processes and metrics.

Data protection officer of the company. Ensuring data protection compliance (e.g. BDSG, DSGVO). Project-related activity with the aim of optimizing and implementing the company's data protection compliance.