Associate IT Director - Cyber Operations

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At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Your role at Baxter

The Associate Director, IT- Cybersecurity Operations & Incident Response is responsible for leading efforts in detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats and incidents. For this, this role will work across multiple technologies and groups within Cybersecurity, IT, R&D, corporate and business functions and external partners. Additionally, will lead the team responsible for identifying and maintaining necessary cyber tool capabilities.

Your team

You will report to Baxter’s Senior Director of Cyber Operations and will manage the Incident management and Cyber tools engineering teams, to ensure 24x7 monitoring, incident response, and threat-resilience of our organization's identities, digital assets, infrastructure, products (device and applications), manufacturing plants and sensitive Data.

What you'll be doing

• Direct 24X7 cybersecurity operations teams- Incident Response and Tools Engineering teams- to continually improve processes, protocols, and systems for detecting, responding to, and mitigating cyber threats
• Ensure effective communications, timely and coordinated response during Enterprise, Product or third-party cyber incidents or breaches minimizing damage and recovery time.
• Direct the continual improvement and execution of the organization's Incident Response strategies (e.g. post-incident reviews to identify lessons learned), playbooks and runbooks for responding to threats and optimize the use of security tools such as SIEM, XDR, SOAR, and case management platforms
• Lead all aspects of collaboration with Legal, Compliance, and PR teams to manage the organizational response to major security events and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements
• Ensure the organization has the vital tools to supervise, detect, and respond to cybersecurity threats in real-time. Influence the necessary defense strategies that continually fortify Baxter’s cyber defenses.
• Establish and maintain cybersecurity metrics and KPIs to inform the efficacy and assurance of defense tactics and protections across Baxter enterprise and product ecosystems.
• Work closely with the Cyber Architecture to ensure the cybersecurity infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and adaptive to evolving threats. Harmonize and automate security tools, systems, and platforms for more cohesive and adaptable capabilities.

What you'll bring

• 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity or Infrastructure operations, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Proven leadership in cybersecurity operations, with a deep technical knowledge of threat hunting, investigation, and incident response procedures.
• Outstanding leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with a history of managing diverse teams.
• Ability to thrive in high-pressure situations, demonstrating excellent decision-making and crisis management capabilities.
• Industry engagement and working groups is a plus.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue as business needs change.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $160,000 - $220,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the an