Senior Director IT Platforms & Security
About Medline India:
Medline India was setup in 2010 in Pune, primarily as an offshore Development centre and to augment resources for Medline Industries LP headquartered in Chicago, USA. We are a 1500+ strong and growing team of technology, finance & and business support professionals who support our businesses worldwide towards a mission to make healthcare run better. We are an organization with a conducive work environment, ample opportunities to learn, contribute and grow with a highly empowered & engaged team. We encourage our people to share their best ideas and create new opportunities for our customers and ourselves to work together to solve today's toughest healthcare challenges.
About Medline Industries, LP:
Established in 1966, Medline Industries LP is a renowned global healthcare organization boasting 56 years of consecutive sales growth, exceeding $21 billion in annual sales. With a workforce of over 36,000 professionals spread across the globe, we operate in more than 125 countries and territories. As the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies in the United States, Medline is uniquely positioned to offer comprehensive products, education, and support across the continuum of care.
At present, Medline Industries, LP holds the esteemed position as the #1 market leader, delivering an extensive portfolio of over 550,000 medical products and clinical solutions. Our clientele includes hospitals, extended care facilities, surgery centres, physician offices, home care agencies, providers, and retailers.
We're proud to be recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers and Best Employers for Women. Additionally, the Chicago Tribune has consistently named us a Top Workplace for the past 12 years.
Medline is seeking a Senior Director of IT Platforms & Security. The Senior Director of IT Platforms and Security works across the Medline enterprise to build and secure digital products, platforms and solutions that drive the greatest value and are in alignment with our business priorities. This involves guiding the strategic portfolio direction, governing portfolio's delivery and operations in India and maintaining a robust IT security posture. This role will have responsibility for all aspects IT Platforms, Data & AI, IT Infrastructure and IT Security.
Major Responsibilities
Portfolio Areas
- Working with Functional Leadership, establish, prioritize, and maintain the overall Enterprise strategies for different portfolio areas and approaches for Medline, engaging the necessary functions in alignment, co-creation, and on-going partnership. Establish new functions, capabilities in support of enterprise strategy where needed.
- Collaborate and work closely with other departments and onsite stakeholders, particularly software development, to ensure that IT Platforms & Security supports seamless integration in a secure manner between systems and applications.
- Responsible to establish and support foundational platform services that are consumed by internal and external partners. Foundational platform services include but not limited to providing seamless development experience, observability and operational support, enterprise services delivery, cost management, and common set of tools/accelerators.
- Ensure the reliability and availability of IT systems and services. This involves change management, monitoring system uptime, incident management, addressing outages promptly, and implementing redundancy and failover mechanisms to minimize downtime.
- Lead to mature Data architecture, Business Intelligence tooling and outcomes, AI adoption and Intelligent automation (RPA) practices across the organization. Responsible to work horizontally across the enterprise to collaborate and drive adoption.
- Establish, prioritize and execute information security strategies, and plans, for a comprehensive information security program. Develop and maintain robust security controls to protect organization business from security breaches/ incidents.
People Management and Team Development
- Recruit, develop and retain high caliber talent, especially for key leadership positions, and develop robust succession plans for your team.
- Evaluate team members performance, provide candid feedback and high impact coaching that enables (and motivates) them to achieve departmental as well as enterprise goals.
- Foster a transparent and inclusive workplace culture leveraging Medline's core values and success factors.
- Partner with India HR on Talent Management, Compensation & Benefits, Performance Management, Employee engagement, departmental policies, Branding and drive alignment with department head and global IS leadership.
In return, Medline offers a business casual, entrepreneurial work environment with strong growth potential; a competitive compensation package; along with a complete benefits package and much more!
Job Requirements
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant discipline and/or 20+ years of IT experience supporting healthcare or other relevant teams and/or Advanced Degree
Work Experience
- 20+ years of progressive Architecture, IT Operations, BI, IT Security experience leading cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs, operating and influencing effectively across the company's culturally complex organization will be required. Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- Exceptional strategic thought partner, ability to lead in strong co-creation and collaboration with Digital and business partners across the organization.
- Experience across multiple architecture environments and other enterprise technologies and platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to develop talent and build effective teams.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to directly & indirectly influence Sr. Management, key partners and stakeholders.
- Excellent business acumen and interpersonal skills; able to work across business lines at senior levels to influence and effect change to achieve common goals.
- Proven data literacy the ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options. The ability to translate among the vocabulary used by executive, business, IT and quant stakeholders.
- Ability to effectively drive business, culture and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment.
- Strong prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills.
- Demonstrated collaborative skills and ability to work well within a team.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
- Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines and reporting.
