Job Summary

This position provides enterprise leadership for security risk and compliance by setting strategy, owning GRC outcomes, and ensuring regulatory alignment across the company and its subsidiaries. The Executive Director builds and sustains the enterprise GRC framework and leads all enterprise attestations and certifications, including SOX, HIPAA, and HITRUST, supported by clear C suite and Board reporting. The role governs security policy, exceptions, security awareness initiatives, and third party risk management, while enabling consistent identification, tracking, remediation, and reporting of security risks across the enterprise. Responsibilities also include overseeing processes for threat and vulnerability management, ensuring adherence to established risk policies and standards, and continuously improving security risk management capabilities and controls. The Executive Director owns the enterprise information security risk posture, budget stewardship, and cross functional alignment with Legal, Compliance, IT, and Business stakeholders

Required Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 15 years of experience in IT/Information Security; or 19 years of experience without a degree.
• Minimum 7 years of people leadership experience (multi-team leadership preferred).
• Proven experience leading enterprise GRC programs (risk, compliance, policy, third-party risk, subsidiary governance).
• Demonstrated success briefing executives/Board, owning budgets, and driving cross-functional outcomes.

Preferred Job Qualifications:

Executive experience with regulatory regimes (e.g., HIPAA/HITRUST, SOX) and enterprise control frameworks (NIST CSF/800-53, ISO 27001).

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Pay Transparency Statement:

At Health Care Service Corporation, you will be part of an organization committed to offering meaningful benefits to our employees to support their life outside of work. From health and wellness benefits, 401(k) savings plan, pension plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, supplemental life insurance, employee assistance program, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, plus other incentives, we offer a robust total rewards package for employees. Learn more about our benefit offerings by visiting https://careers.hcsc.com/totalrewards.

The compensation offered will vary depending on your job-related skills, education, knowledge, and experience. This role aligns with an annual incentive bonus plan subject to the terms and the conditions of the plan.

Base Pay Range
$177,500.00 - $329,800.00

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.