Position Type:
Permanent
The Opportunity
Join Medavie in a newly created leadership role that will help shape the future of cybersecurity across our organization. Reporting to the Vice-President, Corporate Security / CISO, you'll lead the execution of enterprise cybersecurity priorities while partnering with leaders across multiple lines of business to strengthen and mature our cybersecurity program.
As Director, Cybersecurity Operations, you'll lead and develop a growing cybersecurity function, guide strategic initiatives, and help protect sensitive information, technology assets, and essential services within a complex and evolving environment.
As a senior leader within the cybersecurity function, you'll help drive priorities across Medavie's diverse business and technology environments while partnering with leaders to enable secure, resilient, and innovative business outcomes.
We're looking for a collaborative leader who combines strong cybersecurity expertise with business acumen, sound judgment, and exceptional relationship-building skills. You'll be comfortable navigating complexity, influencing decisions, and helping teams solve challenges in a practical and thoughtful way.
What You'll Do
- Lead, coach, and develop a growing cybersecurity team
- Drive the execution of enterprise cybersecurity initiatives and priorities
- Oversee cybersecurity operations, including threat detection, monitoring, and incident response
- Partner with business and technology leaders to integrate cybersecurity into key decisions and processes
- Translate cybersecurity concepts and risks into meaningful business insights for executives and stakeholders
- Advance cybersecurity capabilities across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments
- Support compliance with regulatory, audit, privacy, and industry security requirements
- Foster a culture of security awareness, collaboration, and continuous improvement
What You Bring
- 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, or a related field, including 5+ years in leadership roles
- Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of an organization
- Experience presenting to executives, Boards, clients, regulators, or other senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives in matrixed environments
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity operations, security engineering, incident response, and cybersecurity governance
- Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST and ISO
- Strong judgment, adaptability, and the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities
- English proficiency is required to perform the duties of the role, which include daily collaboration with teams and partners outside Québec who operate primarily in English
Security Clearance Requirement
- In conjunction with our contract with the Federal Government, you will be required to have Reliability Status Clearance (Enhanced Level B). This includes Fingerprinting, Criminal Record Check, Credit Check and you must have resided in Canada for at least 5 years and hold Permanent Resident or Citizenship Status
Nice to Have
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, or similar certifications
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, government, Crown corporations, or other regulated industries
- Experience supporting environments that manage sensitive information or essential services
- Experience leading cybersecurity transformation or modernization initiatives
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and cybersecurity considerations related to AI
- Bilingualism (ENG/FR) is considered an asset
Pay Range: $120,336 - $171,908 CAD
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This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization / Ce poste est actuellement vacant au sein de notre organisation.
The Base Pay range may vary depending on the successful candidate or other relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience and education/training. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Medavie employees may participate in various performance-based incentive programs. Payments under these programs are discretionary and subject to both individual and organizational results.
