Global Interactive Marketing Online (GIMO) is a silver award winner for 2021 Employee Centric Company at UK Employee Experience Awards (UKEXA) in London. Company was established in 2006, based in the Waterloo/Southwark area with circa 200 employees working for us in London, and an additional 450 employees working globally as part of the group.

GIMO specialises in all aspects of online marketing, website and online games creation in the iGaming, Sports Betting, Poker, and Casino industries. Gimo works in close partnership with leading global gaming brands such as NetBet, 777, and betFIRST.
We have a very multicultural team here at GIMO with employees specialising in all aspects of Marketing, Affiliation Marketing, Development, Web Design, Content, Analysis, Software Development and Customer Service.

The Role:

The responsibilities of this role are to perform and manage core Data Protection and Legal duties, including the responsibility of the Legal and DPO key functions in relevant jurisdictions, to help secure compliance with law and regulations.
The Role assists the Group Head of Compliance for both the gaming and partner entity for the markets involved. The role is to be performed across all markets the company operates within where applicable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implementing measures and a privacy governance framework to manage data use in compliance with the GDPR, including developing templates for data collection, assisting with data mapping, and vendor management reviews.
• Working with key internal stakeholders in the review of projects and related data to ensure compliance with local data privacy laws, and where necessary, complete and advise on privacy impact assessments.
• Serving as the primary point of contact and liaison for the IDPC and other EEA Data Protection Authorities on all data protection related matters under the GDPR.
• Serving as the primary point of contact for data protection related queries in the business.
• Reviewing Payment Provider and Service Provider contracts consents needed to implement projects in partnership with the firm’s Procurement and Information Security functions, and ensuring filing requirements with local regulators are achieved.
• Managing and conducting ongoing reviews of Company’s privacy governance framework
• Monitoring changes to local and European privacy laws and making recommendations when appropriate.
• Setting standards and reviewing policies and procedures globally that meet the requirements under the GDPR and any localization requirements in countries of operation.
• Assisting other Compliance Officers in other markets to manage risk and also introduce appropriate policies and procedures to protect the Players’ Data and the Company
• Developing and delivering privacy training to various business functions.
• Developing strategies and initiatives to ensure engagement with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinating and conducting data privacy audits.
• Collaborating with the Information Security function(s) to raise employee awareness of data privacy and security issues, and providing training on the subject matter.
• Collaborating with the Information Security function(s) to maintain records of all data assets and exports, and maintaining a data security incident management plan to ensure timely remediation of incidents including impact assessments, security breach response, complaints, claims or notifications, and responding to subject access requests (SARs).
• Ensuring that the Company’s IT systems and procedures comply with all relevant data privacy and protection law, regulation and policy (including in relation to the retention and destruction of data).
• Working with designated privacy law attorneys across the Company’s offices and, where necessary, outside counsel to help advise on local data privacy law issues.
• Promoting effective work practices, working as a team member, and showing respect for coworkers
• Handle any legal matters that may arise from time to time that are within the employee’s sphere of expertise including the review of legal documents and service provider agreements.

General Compliance:

• Provide additional support to the Head of Compliance and team where and when required.
• Participation in ad hoc and project work as required e.g. remediation projects, process changes.
• Completing additional tasks assigned from Management for new projects or efficiency improvements.
• Upskilling Team Members with GDPR/Data Protection processes and procedures to reach a level of competency/accreditation to become Player Protection Analysts for Low Risk reviews.
• Develop Data Protection (Privacy) policies and procedures to assist in future improvements.
• Create internal controls applicable for markets depending on specific regulation.
• Completing tasks, projects and workload at a level that maintains high levels of quantity and quality.

Person Specifications:

• The individual will need to meet the standards to hold key positions within the jurisdictions that we operate, this includes regulators such as the MGA and HGC. Specifically.
• The person must have a minimum of two (2) years of working experience in the role of legal counsel and/or in a similar senior role and a bachelor’s degree in law or higher.
• The person is knowledgeable in terms of the Gaming Act (Cap. 583) and the binding instruments issued thereunder
• Confident in using Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, RMS, JIRA and new systems that are implemented within the business.
• Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of relevant data protection laws.
• Competent in undertaking the responsibilities of providing legal advice and support to the Board of Directors

GIMO Benefits:

Our generous benefits package [ applicable to UK based employees] includes but not limited to

• Hybrid working [ 3 days in office/ 2 days remote]
• Work from abroad up to 4 weeks/ year.
• Pizza and drinks every Friday.
• Pension Scheme
• Private Health Insurance
• Perkbox
• Employee Wellbeing
• Learning and Development Programmes
• Staff social engagement activities

More benefits are available and will be discussed once successful.

“GIMO is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.”