Senior Director, Identity Governance

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Senior Director of Identity Governance owns the enterprise-wide identity governance strategy, operating model, and control standards that align access to risk, audit, and regulatory obligations across a global healthcare enterprise. This leader connects technical identity requirements with regulatory, legal, operational, and business priorities, partnering across business, security, internal audit, and technology to reconcile governance with operational reality and transformation priorities, including M&A.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the identity governance strategy, operating model, and control standards; lead access certification, role lifecycle, and segregation-of-duties programs with clear accountability for control coverage, exception handling, and decision ownership.
• Coordinate identity requirements across SOX audits, external audits, global regulations, , and standards such as NIST.
• Own the identity governance policy and standards library and the audit and SOX ITGC evidence that proves those controls operate.
• Establish governance forums and escalation paths to resolve policy exceptions, toxic access combinations, and role design conflicts.
• Direct workflow, analytics, and reporting to surface access risk, measure control effectiveness, and prioritize remediation by exposure.
• Manage risk exceptions and compensating controls when legacy systems, acquired businesses, or operational constraints prevent immediate compliance, including distribution-center and patient medicine delivery operations.
• Lead evaluation and modernization of the identity governance platform, processes, and data quality to improve scalability, automation, and evidence integrity.
• Lead identity governance for M&A activity, managing environments where acquired technologies do not yet meet enterprise standards.
• Communicate identity risks, metrics, and compliance status to audiences ranging from end users to executives, regulators, and legal partners.
• Build and develop a team of approximately 8 to 10 employees and consultants, with potential for additional headcount as the function matures.

The strongest candidate will combine identity technology knowledge with meaningful GRC depth. A broad IAM leader or infrastructure executive without clear governance and compliance experience would not fully match this profile.

This job profile description is a standardized, non-contractual reference description and global reference tool provided for organizational consistency and talent architecture purposes across Cencora. It does not alter actual job duties, responsibilities, reporting lines, working conditions, grading, compensation, or other essential terms and conditions of employment. Actual duties and responsibilities may vary based on business needs, local requirements, and operational practices. Where a team member's role is governed by an employment agreement, local terms and conditions, prior job description or collective bargaining agreement, those documents shall prevail in case of any inconsistency. Mandatory local laws shall also prevail.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong experience in identity governance, risk, and compliance with practical cybersecurity or enterprise technology knowledge.
• Audit experience, including SOX ITGC, HiTrust, ISO, PCI, and NIST coordination and evidence management.
• Experience developing and managing policies, standards, controls, and exception processes at enterprise scale.
• Proven ability to translate regulatory obligations into actionable technical requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with credibility across technical, business, audit, legal, and regulatory audiences.
• Experience managing identity governance in M&A contexts.

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

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