Head of Enterprise Applications & Digital Transformation

Summary

This position is an executive technology leader accountable for Pharming’s enterprise application strategy, governance, performance, and value realization across the company.

Summary

This position is an executive technology leader accountable for Pharming’s enterprise application strategy, governance, performance, and value realization across the company.

The role ensures that Pharming’s core business applications enable scalable growth, operational excellence, regulatory compliance, data-driven decision-making, and business transformation. Acting as a strategic partner to the Executive leader of Digital Transformation & IT, Executive Committee, and senior business leaders, the person in this role translates business priorities into enterprise-wide application capabilities and ensures that technology investments deliver measurable business value.

This role is responsible for shaping the future application landscape, simplifying complexity, strengthening operational resilience, and ensuring that critical platforms are secure, compliant, integrated, and fit for purpose in a global biopharmaceutical environment.

This is an important moment of transformation for Pharming’s digital and technology capabilities, as they evolve from a traditional support function into a more integrated, enterprise-wide enabler of business value. You will have the opportunity to influence how applications, data, technology, processes, and ways of working develop across the organization, helping to build scalable, resilient, and future-ready capabilities that support Pharming’s continued growth.

This position is based in our Warren, NJ office with a hybrid schedule of 2-3 in office days per week.

Responsibilities

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.

• 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

• 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

• Own strategic relationships with software vendors, implementation partners, managed service providers, and consultants. Ensure partners deliver against agreed service levels,…