At SanMar, the work you do makes a difference.

What's the Short Version?
The Manager, IT Security is charged with making Cybersecurity a team sport. They oversee the IT security team, SanMar's security solutions, and security partners. The Manager, IT Security delivers the IT Security Roadmap to reduce SanMar's risk profile, improve key security processes and educate employees to protect the company and themselves against cyber threats.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Collaborate in the definition and own the delivery of the IT Security (Zero Trust) Roadmap.
• Define and continuously improve SanMar’s security awareness program; perform regular security awareness training for all employees based on their role.
• Create and maintain SanMar’s security documents (policies, standards, baselines, guidelines, and procedures) to meet regulatory and PCI Compliance requirements.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the IT security industry, including awareness of new or updated security solutions, improved security processes, and evolving attacks and threat vectors.
• Establish and mature vulnerability management, including tools, processes, SLAs/SLOs, discovery, and handling to make this effort an IT-wide initiative.
• Supervise the design and execution of regular vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and security audits.
• Maintain situational awareness of industry news on software and hardware vulnerabilities, including zero-day exploits and emergency patch requirements.
• Define and integrate current and future security solutions into a SIEM managed by a 24x7 SOC partner that identifies, triages, and remediates security events.
• Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data residing on or transmitted to/from/through enterprise workstations, servers, and enterprise systems.
• Coordinate and monitor information security activities throughout the organization, including the preparation of periodic status and progress reports to applicable parties, leadership teams, and key stakeholders.
• Create an IT Security Liaison program to educate IT and business stakeholders on security topics relevant for the enterprise.

What Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor's Degree in information security, computer science, computer engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 7-9 years of relevant experience in IT Security or related field.
• 4-6 years of experience in implementing and managing security solutions.
• 4-6 years years of infrastructure-related experience (e.g., network, server, endpoint) is preferred.
• Experience across cloud environments like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services is preferred.
• One or more professional security certifications such as Security+, GSEC, CISA, CISM, or CISSP is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing, across all organizational levels and ability to build cross-organizational coalitions.
• Ability to communicate technical and security-related concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff, security vendors, consultants and senior management.
• A deep understanding of Cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, controls, and remediation strategies in global enterprise environments.
• Experience related to security design, architecture, and incident response.
• Strong work ethic, demonstrated attention to detail, excellent time management, and organizational skills.
• Proven team building and team leadership experience.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams with quickly changing priorities.

What's Our Offer?
Salary Range: You`ll earn between $120,000 - $170,000 annually, depending on experience.

Bonus: You`ll be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus up to 15% of base salary.

Paid Time Off: You`ll accrue paid time off on a bi-weekly basis based on hours worked up to 112 hours per year to start. Employees also receive 7 paid holidays and 1 paid family day off.

Additional Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle
• Life insurance
• Short/long-term disability coverage
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Pet insurance

What Should You Expect?
Hybrid: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work environment is moderately quiet. Ability to work on computer for multiple hours with frequent interruptions.

SanMar's Eastpointe office is located near Seattle, WA and our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. Quarterly travel may be required.

Who is SanMar?
SanMar is more than just a t-shirt company.

We see t-shirts as a blank canvas that can be used to unite a team, tell a story or show your love for your favorite local haunt. We create meaningful connections that elevate lives through the apparel we provide.

As the industry leader in promotional apparel, we live by a refreshingly simple philosophy: Be Nice and Tell the Truth. This is how we’ve done business since Marty Lott founded the company in 1971. Today we work with apparel manufacturers from around the world, we’ve grown to more than 5,000 employees and we still work with those same simple principles in mind.

You can see our values take shape in A Canvas for Good, our platform for positive action and citizenship. We are dedicated to being good stewards of the world we share, to lifting up the communities where we work and to respecting our employees. Our IDEA Council guides company-wide diversity efforts, and our annual Sustainability Report shows our progress toward our goals of doing business responsibly.

Why Work at SanMar?
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. They bring their talent, passion and dedication to work with them every day. Their hard work inspires us and gives us purpose. We love working here together.

Whether you work in our headquarters, from your home or in one of our distribution centers across North America, we believe that investing in you is just the right thing to do. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health and well-being, life balance, career growth and (eventually) retirement.

SanMar works with brands you already know, like Nike, The North Face and Brooks Brothers, as well as providing industry-leading private label apparel and accessories. Our people come to work excited to do their part, providing clothing that helps people feel that they’re a part of something special.

Here’s your chance to be a part of this story. If you’re ready to work in a place where your participation matters and your growth is a priority, we’re ready for you.

SanMar is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, whomever you love or follow in faith, whatever your disability or superpower status, whichever ethnicity or gender you identify with, you are welcome at SanMar. Our team members are committed to creating an open and inclusive environment in which every employee can be successful.

SanMar participates in E-Verify.