Director, Privacy & Security Enterprise Engagement

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The Director leads the Privacy & Security Enterprise Engagement Officers (EEO) Shared Services Team within Enterprise Privacy & Security Risk Management (EPSRM). This role works with other Shared Services across the organization with a focus on EPSRM. Some of that work includes:

• Leading a team that is aligns to various shared service capabilities within Centene.
• Include privacy, security compliance, AI governance, Resiliency (e.g., BC/DR), security culture & training, marketing, Human Resources, Physical security, Digital, SSDLC and various other alignments.

Support the Enterprise Engagement Officer team as they will need to know all controls, requirements, relevant regulations, participate in Legislation reporting and creation on topics relevant to the Team area. The Director builds trusted partnerships with Health Plan leadership and key enterprise stakeholders (Enterprise Compliance, Operations, Business Technology Solutions, ITCC, Privacy, Vendor Risk, Legal, etc.) to drive contract assurance, readiness reviews, RFP support, and continuous improvement.

The position ensures team alignment with EPSRM’s goals and accountability for Health Plan deliverables.

• Lead, coach, and scale the Shared Service EEO team to deliver consistent, high-quality engagement across all assigned state Medicaid Health Plans and the Medicare and Marketplace lines of business.
• Align staffing and resources to shared service and line of business complexity, volume, and key cycles.
• Ensure the team’s alignment with and achievement of defined goals.
• Responsible for onboarding, training, allocating and prioritizing tasks, setting goals, and managing performance and career development for team members.

• Serve as the primary EPSRM engagement leader for Health Plan lines of business; support stakeholders as needed to track obligations, risks, and decisions.
• Direct and oversee the team’s ongoing efforts to serve as a subject‑matter‑expert for privacy, security and AI requirements and ensure regulatory, legislative, and contractual privacy, security & AI requirements are understood and operationalized.
• Provide Executive‑ready updates for Health Plan and EPSRM leadership.
• Build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders to resolve blockers and escalate issues effectively.
• Meet with regulators or other state representatives to answer questions and achieve clarity on the understanding of requirements.
• Meet with auditors to demonstrate Centene's privacy, security, AI and operational resilience compliance.

• Interpret and operationalize privacy, security, AI, and business continuity obligations from contracts, RFPs, and laws/regulations (e.g., HIPAA, CMS/MARS‑E/ARC‑AMPE, NCQA, state Medicaid/Exchange).
• Maintain a centralized requirements & deliverables register or pipeline mapping obligations to owners, timelines, and evidence for audits & assessments.
• Ensure adequacy of control validation evidence and support gap closure prior to delivery or readiness reviews.
• Monitor legal and regulatory changes and how they are/will impact contracts and effectively communicating impacts to stakeholders.
• Direct and oversee the team’s ongoing efforts to discover, assess impact of, and communicate new or changing regulatory, legislative, and contractual requirements related to privacy, security, AI and operational resilience.

• Direct and oversee the team's ongoing efforts to identify and bring awareness to privacy, security, AI and operational resilience risks and control gaps, and champion solutions for those within the context of Centene's business operations and technology environments in partnership with internal and external teams to EPSRM.

• Ensure System Security Plans (SSPs) or System…