Senior Director - Enterprise Applications
$240,000 per year
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L7
$240,000 per year
- Enterprise applications strategy and governance
- Define and execute the enterprise applications strategy, roadmap, and governance model.
- Ensure the application portfolio supports Pharming’s strategic priorities, operating model, and growth ambitions.
- Drive simplification, standardization, modernization, and rationalization of the application landscape.
- Establish clear ownership, lifecycle management, investment prioritization, and decision-making across the portfolio.
- Business partnership, delivery and transformation
- Partner with executive and senior business leaders to translate strategic priorities into application capabilities. Ensure applications enable effective business processes, user productivity, compliance, and data-driven decision-making.
- Govern business demand and ensure technology investments are prioritized based on value, risk, urgency, and strategic alignment.
- Oversee major application programs, enhancements, upgrades, integrations, and transformation initiatives. Ensure delivery of projects within agreed scope, quality, timeline, budget, compliance, and business outcome expectations
- Ensure application initiatives are aligned with enterprise architecture, security, data, and infrastructure strategies
- Compliance, risk, security, and resilience
- Ensure enterprise applications operate in accordance with applicable regulatory, quality, privacy, cybersecurity, validation, audit, and data integrity requirements.
- Maintain strong governance over application controls, access management, change control, documentation, and audit readiness.
- Identify and mitigate application-related risks, including technical debt, vendor dependency, lifecycle risk, service continuity, and compliance exposure.
- Ensure critical applications have appropriate support, continuity, recovery, and resilience arrangements
- Vendor, partner, and commercial management
- Own strategic relationships with software vendors, implementation partners, managed service providers, and consultants. Ensure partners deliver against agreed service levels, contracts, business outcomes, quality standards, and compliance expectations.
- Drive commercial discipline across licensing, renewals, vendor performance, contracts, and external delivery models.
- Service excellence and continuous improvement
- Ensure reliable, user-focused application support and service performance.
- Govern incident, problem, change, release, and enhancement management across the application portfolio.
- Use service metrics, business feedback, and risk indicators to drive continuous improvement.
- Improve application usability, stability, integration quality, data flow, and operational efficiency.
- Leadership and capability development
- Lead, develop, and mature the enterprise applications function. Build a team culture focused on accountability, business partnership, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Develop internal capability while effectively leveraging external partners.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field.
- At least 15 years of applicable experience including significant senior leadership experience in enterprise applications, preferably in a global or regulated organization
- Experience in biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences a plus.
- Proven experience owning application strategy, portfolio governance, lifecycle management, and enterprise roadmap delivery.
- Strong experience with major enterprise platforms such as ERP, CRM, HR.Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders and translate business strategy into technology-enabled outcomes.
- Familiarity with GxP, computer system validation, and regulatory inspection readiness.
- Experience with application modernization, SaaS/cloud platforms, integration strategy, data enablement, and portfolio rationalization.
- Methodologies such as ITIL, PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum, or relevant platform/cloud certifications.
- Strong understanding of compliance, validation, cybersecurity, privacy, audit, data integrity, and risk management in regulated environments.
- Proven vendor, partner, contract, budget, and service performance management experience.
- Experience leading teams, managing change, and building scalable operating models.
- Fluent English required; Dutch or other European languages are an advantage. Willingness to travel internationally, estimated at 10-20%.Commitment and alignment to Pharming’s mission, core values, and behaviors.
- Executive presence and strategic judgement.
- Strong business partnering and stakeholder influence.
- Commercial and financial acumen.
- Ability to balance growth, compliance, resilience, and innovation.
- Clear communication and decision-making.
- Change leadership and organizational maturity building.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and delivery discipline.
Level
ManagerL7
Salary
$240,000 per year
Location
Warren, NJ
Occupation
Computer and Information Systems Managers
Industry
Custom Computer Programming Services
Posted
yesterday
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