DIRECTOR, IT

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Information Technology Leader to oversee the IT systems throughout Global Elevate Healthcare. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in IT management with experience in help desk support, network management, cloud services, business applications and business intelligence. This role emphasizes strategic system operations, cybersecurity, DevOps and code review. It requires a visionary leader who is not only technically proficient but also passionate about fostering a collaborative and inclusive work culture to deliver the tools and capabilities necessary for products and services for our customers.

Location

• Sarasota, FL (On-Site)

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high performing IT team, ensuring continuous growth and development.
• Foster a collaborative and positive work environment, promoting teamwork, open communication, and shared goals.
• Manage and prioritize the IT department's workload, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.

Strategic Planning:

• Develop and implement IT strategies aligned with the company's overall goals.
• Drive the adoption of new technologies and best practices to improve efficiency and innovation across the organization.
• Implement and manage a cohesive and efficient business application strategy across the enterprise
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address IT-related challenges and opportunities.
• Establish and refine governance processes to ensure data consistency and integrity across systems and reports.

Cybersecurity:

• Oversee the organization's cybersecurity strategy, ensuring robust protection against internal and external threats.
• Implement and maintain security policies, procedures, and technologies to safeguard sensitive data.
• Lead incident response efforts and ensure compliance with relevant cybersecurity regulations and standards.

DevOps & IT Infrastructure:

• Manage the development and operations (DevOps) processes, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of applications and services.
• Oversee the maintenance and optimization of the company's IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, and cloud services.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of IT systems to support the company's growth.

Collaboration & Culture Building:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with other departments, fostering a culture of collaboration and mutual support.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the IT team.
• Act as a champion for change, encouraging innovation and the adoption of best practices across the organization.

Ideal Experience

Leadership and Culture:

• 5-10 Years experience in IT management.
• Demonstrated success leading remote team members.
• A proven track record of leading and developing teams.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team.
• Experience in building and maintaining a collaborative, positive, and inclusive team culture.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering results.
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Technical Expertise

• Strong knowledge and experience in cybersecurity, including the implementation of security policies and incident response
• Proficiency in DevOps practices and tools, with experience managing IT infrastructure in both on-premises and cloud environments
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, including but not limited to Microsoft Co-Pilot and OpenAI and an understanding of how AI can be leveraged to enhance IT operations, decision-making, and user productivity
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management frameworks.

Academic Credentials

• College Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Management, Business Management or relevant job experience.
• Certifications in relevant areas such as PMP, CISSP, CISM, or AWS/Azure DevOps are a plus.

Elevate Healthcare was recently added to the Madison Medical portfolio of companies in February of 2024 with the acquisition from CAE corporation. Elevate designs, manufactures, and services healthcare simulation products used to educate nurses, doctors and medical professionals on the proper techniques and procedures to have confidence and competence in the life saving moments that matter. Currently, society is facing a significant shortage of nurses and doctors needed to treat an aging world population. Medical errors represent the third largest cause of death in the United States. Elevate plays a critical part in reducing medical errors and expanding the workforce for healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes. Elevate serves all of the major nursing and medical programs at hospitals, universities, nursing schools, medical schools, medical associations and medical technology manufacturers worldwide.

Madison Industries Holdings LLC is one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world. Driven by a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive, the company is uniquely designed to foster, empower, and build exceptional companies and teams that are essential to collective health and well- being.

Founded 25 years ago by Larry Gies, Madison Industries has morphed from a "buy, build, sell" model prevalent among venture capital and private equity firms, into partnerships that mutually benefit customers, employees and the business owners who join it. Madison's goal is to build something truly remarkable that will long outlast all of us. Through Madison's strategy, the company has grown into an international manufacturing powerhouse. It has built market leaders in the filtration, medical, safety, healthcare simulation, industrial equipment, process improvement, instruments & controls, plastics, energy, and indoor air quality industries with combined enterprise value of nearly $20 billion. Its footprint spans across Europe, Asia and the Americas operating over 300 facilities in 40+ countries, with over 18,000 engaged employees.

http://www.madison.net http://www.elevatehealth.net

Elevate is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive by inspiring positive outcomes in healthcare. We are committed to an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and a strong bias for action. The team at Elevate is committed to building something truly remarkable that long outlasts us while coaching others to reach their highest potential.

Elevate is part of the Madison Medical platform which has built its reputation by fostering three key attributes: Trust, Bias for Action, Entrepreneurial.

Trust - Honesty and transparency are essential to the way we do business. We work with and build management teams we believe in and don't add arrogancy, complacency or bureaucracy to the mix. We also believe in the power of the team and how critical trust is in that relationship. We work as hard for the person on our left and the person on our right as we do for ourselves. Consequently, our teams operate at the highest level of engagement and are inspired by our mission and their leaders.

Trust is:

• Open, honest, and transparent.
• Ethics and integrity are assumed, and anything less is not tolerated.
• We meet all our commitments.
• We are a team, and we can rely on each other.
• We are what we do, and we do what we say Trust isn't:
• An environment in which we have no oversight, approvals or control. Trust is a cultural attribute, not a management method.
• A set of rules and policies. Trust is earned, not legislated.

Bias for Action - Unless you continually work, evolve and innovate, you will learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has! Consequently, we lean forward and challenge the status quo. And if there is an opportunity for us to make the world safer, healthier or more productive, we move quickly. In fact, we close our acquisitions in less than 30 days, providing minimal disruption to the companies with which we partner.

Bias for Action is:

• Bold and ambitious. We inject speed and velocity into our processes.
• We are not victims of things which we cannot control. We control outcomes through our own actions.
• We act with imperfect information; confident in our ability to adjust as necessary.
• We embrace change and see it as an opportunity to improve. Bias for Action isn't:
• Reckless decision making for the sake of speed.
• Ready, shoot, aim.
• An excuse for making poor decisions.

Entrepreneurial - Madison Industries is an operating company owned by the team that runs it. Madison has over 900 owner leaders in its ecosystem. The company is not publicly traded, so no quarterly earnings reports. It is not private equity, so no artificial 3-5 year timelines, which means you can build your company for the long term. Businesses are run locally by the entrepreneurial teams who have an 'owner's mindset' and are closest to the customer, product and the team best positioned to make decisions. Therefore, we partner and not acquire; consequently, the name stays on the door and the management team remains in place. This incredible ecosystem of companies will remain a part of the Madison family long after we are gone, ensuring that our companies can continue their missions.

Entrepreneurial is:

• We are self-reliant. We are gritty and tenacious.
• We have passion and perseverance for our long-term goals

• We are all salespeople at heart - and in our defined roles. 100% of our team members have the responsibility to be salespeople and to focus on customers.
• We are optimistic and believe we will be successful.
• We are adaptable and not set in our ways. We learn, grow and find ways to reinvent ourselves as circumstances change.
• We are ambitious. We want to great things and have great impact on the world.
• An attitude and approach to thinking that actively seeks out change, rather than wait- ing to adapt to change. It's a mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement.
• Creativity and unwillingness to accept that there is not a better way. Constantly ques- tioning. Constantly striving for improvement.
• Healthy paranoia - that leads to continuous innovation, improvement, and the like.
• Anticipatory and proactive - we constantly strive to be ahead of the curve.
• Recognition that we live in an "and" world, not an "or" world - our business requires us to balance multiple priorities with ambiguity and risk. We embrace this paradox and create operating constructs that allow us to make good decisions in that reality.

Entrepreneurial isn't:

• A sense of entitlement.
• A free pass to do whatever you want because you are acting like an "owner".
• An operating construct that has no oversight, no central authority and no hierarchy.
• A product of the kinds of businesses or sizes of companies from which we came.