Company: Medela LLC

Role: Manager, IT Network and Collaboration Services

Location: McHenry, IL

Are you seeking a new career opportunity with an internationally recognized organization where your skills and experience as a IT Network and Collaboration Services Manager can be put to use to make a difference? Where you can contribute to projects that impact lives across the continuum of care? Where you work with a team of passionate individuals towards the same goal? If you're reading this and saying "yes" ...we want to hear from you. We are adding an IT Network and Collaboration Services Manager to our team.

Founded in 1961 by Olle Larsson in Zug, Switzerland, Medela continues to grow under the ownership of the Larsson family. Medela exists to advance human health and wellbeing through knowledge-based and innovative human milk and medical vacuum solutions. In Medela we have two business segments, Human Milk and Healthcare. The common denominator for the two segments is the medical vacuum.  We have developed and progressed our core competencies over the past 50 years and turned them into high quality and innovative products, in both segments.

About Medela Breastfeeding U.S.

For more than 50 years, Medela, supports moms every step of the way – through their pregnancy, in the hospital and at home so they can give the best to their baby, every day. As the #1 breast pump brand*, Medela is committed to improving mom’s breast milk feeding experience and her ability to successfully provide breast milk to her baby for as long as she chooses.  Every year, more than one million mothers in the U.S. rely on Medela's technology. For more than 30 years, Medela has focused on providing the best in research-based breast milk feeding products and clinical education to support moms' breast milk feeding journey.

About Medela Healthcare U.S.

As a global manufacturer of medical vacuum solutions, Medela Healthcare is driven by a passion to understand and resolve challenges facing the healthcare industry. This enables us to improve the lives of patients, doctors, and hospital staff through constant innovation. Medela Healthcare solutions include innovations in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), CardioThoracic Drainage, Surgical Suction, and Airway Suction.

Medela's US-based manufacturing and development facility is headquartered in McHenry, Illinois with an additional facility in Elgin, Illinois.

www.medela.com

Medela is seeking an IT Network and Collaboration Services Manager to join our team!

What We Offer to our IT Network and Collaboration Services Manager:

• Excellent salary and bonus potential
• Comprehensive benefit plan, which is affordable to our employees
• 401K and pension plan
• Generous PTO package, including paid holidays
• Opportunities to learn, grow, and advance within the company

Ideal IT Network and Collaboration Services Manager Candidate:

• Experience working in an enterprise environment with global objectives and multi-cultural teams
• Supervisory experience necessary to support Essential Functions
• Experience with Microsoft PowerShell and other scripting languages preferred
• Advanced project management skills, AGPM (AgilePM) certification is a plus
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification is a plus
• Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

IT Network and Collaboration Services Manager Role Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, computer information systems, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Minimum 10+ years of IT Infrastructure technical operations, architecture, or equivalent progressive role experience in a complex global organization with 7+ years' experience in global network and collaboration technology and services area
• Minimum three years experience managing global teams
• Strong technical background in the area of network topologies and technologies (LAN, WAN, WLAN, TCP/IP, MPLS, SDN, QoS, BGP, OSPF, DNS, etc.), firewall technologies, Windows server infrastructures (Active Directory, Office 365, Skype for Business, Azure, etc.), including running multiple international datacenters and mobile technologies in a 24/7 environment.
• Possesses mature understanding of foundational architectural concepts (design, business technology strategy, quality management, human dynamics, and IT environment)
• Ability to install, upgrade, implement, and maintain Collaboration infrastructure to support business needs and established Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators required
• Planning, realization and controlling skills required

IT Network and Collaboration Services Manager Job Details:

• Lead a distributed international team of IT specialists to develop, maintain and enhance the world-wide IT Network and Collaboration systems and process landscape.
• Prepare, execute, monitor and report on global IT related projects or services of the given responsibility area, including global coordination of ongoing and planned projects
• Partner with other world-wide Medela department heads, project leaders and process experts to continuously enhance the value of IT systems and processes
• Budget planning and coordination with other departments or organizations in alignment with financial regulations
• Design, deploy and manage a global Telecommunications & Collaboration environment and surrounding systems.
• Complies with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations
• Supervises employees by planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems Follows all Company rules and regulations, including health and safety rules
• Successfully interacts with employees at all levels
• Regular, reliable performance of all job duties
• Travel as may be required to meet business and customer expectations
• Performs all other duties as assigned or as may be required from time to time

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