Ascension Executive Recruitment

• Oversee the entire life-cycle of implementation plans, from initial readiness assessments to long-term sustainability. • Supports execution, including site readiness, logistics, and infrastructure development. • Manages communication between sites and the project team, providing cross-functional leadership to resolve bottlenecks. • Manages and tracks project budgets, performance analytics, and dashboards to drive clinical outcomes.

• Provide analytical and technical support in the delivery of benefit programs to associates, carriers and third-party administrators. • Administer benefit programs including new hire enrollments, life event changes, eligibility, deductions, and claim adjudication. • Update and/or correct associate benefit data in both internal and carrier information systems. • Coordinate annual enrollment activities for the organization, including the development of enrollment packages. • Manage associate data including auditing and consolidating elections, verifying associate eligibility, sending required files to third-party administrators for enrollment, providing confirmation statements to associates, and reconciling enrollments with carrier invoices. • Compile statistics used to evaluate benefits strategy effectiveness, process and maintain documentation, and enter ad-hoc payment requests for tuition reimbursement. • Communicate with associates to clarify the policy, eligibility criteria, and other program elements providing customer service to ensure achievement of Service Level Agreement objectives.

• Lead network service excellence by driving Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to meet and exceed performance benchmarks, ensuring our clinical and business teams have the stable connectivity they need. • Create seamless service continuity by acting as the strategic bridge between internal teams and external vendors, resolving complex delivery issues before they impact the organization. • Optimize the total cost of ownership through rigorous financial oversight, ensuring our network investments are balanced between high-quality outcomes and fiscal responsibility. • Support continuous infrastructure evolution by identifying service improvement opportunities and approving root cause analyses to prevent systemic issues from recurring. • Champion operational integrity by ensuring all vendor activities align with corporate security policies, architectural standards, and risk management protocols.

• Collect, pivot, and analyze multi-source telemetry—including OSINT, commercial feeds, deep/dark web forums, and internal technical logs—to profile threat actors, track localized and global cyber campaigns, and map adversary TTPs directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. • Manage, tune, and optimize the Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) to ingest, score, and deduplicate IOCs, collaborating with SIEM/SOAR and Detection Engineering teams to translate threat trends into actionable YARA, Sigma, and SIEM rules. • Partner with security teams to design and execute hypothesis-based threat hunting scopes and conduct retroactive hunts across data lakes and internal security platforms utilizing newly identified indicators and zero-day vulnerability intelligence. • Provide real-time, context-driven intelligence support during active security incidents, delivering critical briefings on attacker infrastructure, capabilities, and intent to the Incident Response (IR), SOC, and DevSecOps teams. • Synthesize complex, abstract technical data into high-impact threat assessments, flash reports, and threat actor profiles ("baseball cards"), contextualizing technical risks into actionable operational insights for both technical stakeholders and executive leadership.

• Continuously monitor, triage, and analyze real-time security alerts and log data across disparate platforms. • Serve as the critical operational hinge and escalation pathway between Tier 1/2 SOC analysts and the Incident Response (IR) team. • Execute initial deep-dive log analysis and technical root-cause investigations to reconstruct threat timelines. • Perform proactive behavioral and pattern analysis on historical network and host logs to identify coverage gaps. • Review and update SOC incident response playbooks, internal workflows, and defensive tool tracking mechanisms.

• Lead Cloud & AI Security Strategy: Own and execute the strategic vision, roadmap, and operating model for Ascension's Cloud Security and AI Security programs under the Senior Director, driving secure adoption of cloud and AI technologies through risk-based priorities, measurable outcomes, and alignment with enterprise objectives. • Build and Develop High-Performing Teams: Lead, coach, and inspire Cloud Security and AI Security teams while establishing scalable operating models, conducting capacity and workforce planning, optimizing team processes, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, adaptability, and continuous learning. • Drive Security Technology Strategy & Program Transformation: Develop and manage the Cloud Security & AI Security technology roadmap, including capability planning, technology evaluation, vendor selection, and oversight of implementations such as CNAPP, AI security controls, and automation capabilities. • Advance Secure Cloud & AI Enablement: Partner across technology, architecture, engineering, governance, legal, and business teams to establish security standards, risk management practices, and control requirements that enable innovation while protecting Ascension's cloud environments and AI solutions. • Measure, Communicate, and Advance Security Outcomes: Establish program metrics, key performance indicators, executive reporting, and strategic points of view to communicate risk, security posture, priorities, and program value. Develop and deliver presentations to senior management to support decision-making and drive alignment across the enterprise.

• Direct the planning and execution of pharmaceutical supply chain optimization initiatives by integrating clinical utilization assessments and complex financial analysis to deliver data-driven strategic recommendations. • Serve as the definitive strategic partner to pharmacy and executive leadership, providing clinical and operational expertise for solution design, program onboarding, and long-term initiative support. • Oversee enterprise-wide risk management related to pharmaceutical procurement, drug shortages, and recalls to ensure absolute adherence to regulatory standards and patient safety protocols.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for patient access and revenue cycle functions. • Oversee all aspects of patient access and partners with stakeholders to create and sustain programs enhancing access to care. • Work closely with corporate leaders to ensure optimal patient access strategies. • Provide leadership to build standardized compliant patient access practices across the organization. • Monitor and ensure compliance with regulatory agencies. • Collaborate with IT to embed consumerism technology within patient access workflows. • Develop disaster recovery plans with partners.

• Provide specialized sourcing and hiring services for executive level positions across the organization. • Attract, source, recruit, screen, negotiate offers and onboard executives. • Maintain long-term relationships with passive talent for future opportunities. • Create strategic partnerships with internal stakeholders and external organizations to network with highly qualified, diverse slates of candidates. • Partner with hiring executives to create a recruitment plan based on an understanding of organizational culture and current business strategy. • Develop a custom, best-in-class recruitment process to maintain a seamless, high-touch candidate experience. • Provide career consultation to associates in leadership programs supporting growth, development, experience of inclusion and belonging.

• Organize, coordinate, and streamline activities related to managing freight management logistics providers fostering effective relationships and ensuring seamless interactions. • Support the internally managed freight program to ensure efficient national logistics flow. • Track, disseminate, and maintain new and revised policies and procedures related to freight management logistics providers. • Oversee the creation, management, and maintenance of all freight management logistics shipping accounts. • Develop and distribute monthly dashboards and reports on freight management logistics performance metrics. • Monitor freight management logistics performance metrics and provide actionable recommendations to leadership.