Position Overview
We are seeking a pragmatic, hands-on Director of IT to lead the modernization and simplification of Elevate Healthcare's technology stack. The ideal candidate will bring strong ERP implementation, CRM platform governance, and business applications leadership experience-paired with practical infrastructure and security oversight. This role will partner closely with Finance, Sales, Service, and Operations to enable a scalable, cost-effective digital backbone for the company's next stage of growth.
Key Relationships
Reports to:
- Tom Pesch, CFO of Elevate Healthcare
- Business System Owner - Sales and Service
- Business System Owner - G&A
- Business System Owner - Data and Business Intelligence
- Help Desk Team (x2)
- Elevate Interim CIO
- Elevate leadership team - CEO, 3 Product Segment VP/GMs, VP of Sales, VP Global HR, Chief Nursing Officer
- Madison Industries Corporate Support: CIO, Managing Director of IT
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy
- Lead and mentor a lean, high-performing IT team, including product owners and vendor partners.
- Establish a pragmatic IT operating model balancing internal capabilities with external partners.
- Partner closely with business leadership to ensure technology investments support measurable outcomes.
- Drive a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Lead Elevate's ERP migration, CRM platform strategy, and eCommerce platform implementation.
- Establish architecture and governance principles to simplify and standardize business applications.
- Oversee vendor selection and system integrator relationships to deliver platform outcomes efficiently.
- Partner with Finance, Sales, Service, and Operations to align systems with business processes.
- Oversee reliable, cost-effective infrastructure (cloud, network, end-user) supporting business applications.
- Manage cybersecurity posture and ensure compliance with company policies and regulations.
- Coordinate with external partners for monitoring, incident response, and business continuity.
- Build strong relationships with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Foster a collaborative, outcome-driven culture within IT.
- Champion pragmatic change management and effective communication across the organization.
- ERP platform migration successfully executed or in advanced stages.
- Clear CRM platform roadmap defined and implemented (simplification or re-structuring needs across multiple application solutions).
- eCommerce platform successfully integrated with ERP/CRM systems.
- Lean, high-performing IT function established with strong vendor partnerships.
- Reliable infrastructure and security posture enabling scalable business growth.
- 8-15 years of progressive IT leadership experience, ideally in mid-market organizations ($100M-$1B).
- Demonstrated success leading ERP and/or CRM transformations.
- Experience managing vendors and system integrators to deliver complex platform initiatives.
- Background in manufacturing, MedTech, SaaS, or similarly complex operational environments.
- Strong business partnering skills with Finance, Sales, Operations, and other functional leaders.
- Hands-on leadership style with the ability to both set strategy and execute.
- ERP implementation or migration experience (e.g., Costpoint, NetSuite, Infor LN).
- CRM platform governance and simplification (e.g., Salesforce).
- Vendor and partner management for platform delivery.
- Familiarity with eCommerce integrations and modern application architecture.
- Working knowledge of infrastructure and security best practices.
- Experience with lean IT team structures and outsourced support models.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field-or equivalent experience.
- Certifications (e.g., PMP, CISSP, ERP/CRM certifications) are a plus but not required.
- Highly competitive compensation package with performance-based incentives
- Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, flexible vacation, and 401k with matching
- Professional development opportunities in rapidly growing healthcare technology company
- Flexible work arrangements with preference for proximity to Sarasota, FL headquarters
- Opportunity to build something truly remarkable that will long outlast us.
- Direct access to executive, entrepreneurial leadership and strategic decision-making.
- Significant career growth potential as company scales toward our $300M vision while improving and saving lives with our products and services.
Elevate Healthcare was recently added to the Madison Medical portfolio of companies in February of 2024 with the acquisition from CAE corporation. Elevate designs, manufactures, and services healthcare simulation products used to educate nurses, doctors and medical professionals on the proper techniques and procedures to have confidence and competence in the life saving moments that matter. Currently, society is facing a significant shortage of nurses and doctors needed to treat an aging world population. Medical errors represent the third largest cause of death in the United States. Elevate plays a critical part in reducing medical errors and expanding the workforce for healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes. Elevate serves all of the major nursing and medical programs at hospitals, universities, nursing schools, medical schools, medical associations and medical technology manufacturers worldwide. Madison Industries Holdings LLC is one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world. Driven by a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive, the company is uniquely designed to foster, empower, and build exceptional companies and teams that are essential to collective health and well- being. Founded 25 years ago by Larry Gies, Madison Industries has morphed from a "buy, build, sell" model prevalent among venture capital and private equity firms, into partnerships that mutually benefit customers, employees and the business owners who join it. Madison's goal is to build something truly remarkable that will long outlast all of us. Through Madison's strategy, the company has grown into an international manufacturing powerhouse. It has built market leaders in the filtration, medical, safety, healthcare simulation, industrial equipment, process improvement, instruments & controls, plastics, energy, and indoor air quality industries with combined enterprise value of nearly $20 billion. Its footprint spans across Europe, Asia and the Americas operating over 300 facilities in 40+ countries, with over 18,000 engaged employees. http://www.madison.net http://www.elevatehealth.net
Madison/Elevate Culture
Elevate is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive by inspiring positive outcomes in healthcare. We are committed to an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and a strong bias for action. The team at Elevate is committed to building something truly remarkable that long outlasts us while coaching others to reach their highest potential. Elevate is part of the Madison Medical platform which has built its reputation by fostering three key attributes: Trust, Bias for Action, Entrepreneurial.
Elevate's Values
Trust - Honesty and transparency are essential to the way we do business. We work with and build management teams we believe in and don't add arrogancy, complacency or bureaucracy to the mix. We also believe in the power of the team and how critical trust is in that relationship. We work as hard for the person on our left and the person on our right as we do for ourselves. Consequently, our teams operate at the highest level of engagement and are inspired by our mission and their leaders. Trust is:
- Open, honest, and transparent.
- Ethics and integrity are assumed, and anything less is not tolerated.
- We meet all our commitments.
- We are a team, and we can rely on each other.
- We are what we do, and we do what we say Trust isn't:
- An environment in which we have no oversight, approvals or control. Trust is a cultural attribute, not a management method.
- A set of rules and policies. Trust is earned, not legislated.
Bias for Action - Unless you continually work, evolve and innovate, you will learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has! Consequently, we lean forward and challenge the status quo. And if there is an opportunity for us to make the world safer, healthier or more productive, we move quickly. In fact, we close our acquisitions in less than 30 days, providing minimal disruption to the companies with which we partner. Bias for Action is:
- Bold and ambitious. We inject speed and velocity into our processes.
- We are not victims of things which we cannot control. We control outcomes through our own actions.
- We act with imperfect information; confident in our ability to adjust as necessary.
- We embrace change and see it as an opportunity to improve. Bias for Action isn't:
- Reckless decision making for the sake of speed.
- Ready, shoot, aim.
- An excuse for making poor decisions.
Entrepreneurial - Madison Industries is an operating company owned by the team that runs it. Madison has over 900 owner leaders in its ecosystem. The company is not publicly traded, so no quarterly earnings reports. It is not private equity, so no artificial 3-5 year timelines, which means you can build your company for the long term. Businesses are run locally by the entrepreneurial teams who have an 'owner's mindset' and are closest to the customer, product and the team best positioned to make decisions. Therefore, we partner and not acquire; consequently, the name stays on the door and the management team remains in place. This incredible ecosystem of companies will remain a part of the Madison family long after we are gone, ensuring that our companies can continue their missions. Entrepreneurial is:
- We are self-reliant. We are gritty and tenacious.
- We have passion and perseverance for our long-term goals
- We are all salespeople at heart - and in our defined roles. 100% of our team members have the responsibility to be salespeople and to focus on customers.
- We are optimistic and believe we will be successful.
- We are adaptable and not set in our ways. We learn, grow and find ways to reinvent ourselves as circumstances change.
- We are ambitious. We want to great things and have great impact on the world.
- An attitude and approach to thinking that actively seeks out change, rather than waiting to adapt to change. It's a mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement.
- Creativity and unwillingness to accept that there is not a better way. Constantly questioning. Constantly striving for improvement.
- Healthy paranoia - that leads to continuous innovation, improvement, and the like.
- Anticipatory and proactive - we constantly strive to be ahead of the curve.
- Recognition that we live in an "and" world, not an "or" world - our business requires us to balance multiple priorities with ambiguity and risk. We embrace this paradox and create operating constructs that allow us to make good decisions in that reality.
Entrepreneurial isn't:
- A sense of entitlement.
- A free pass to do whatever you want because you are acting like an "owner".
- An operating construct that has no oversight, no central authority and no hierarchy.
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CAE Healthcare
401(k)
Oct 27, 2025