Vice President, Information Technology
Pharmaceutical manufacturing company is a US-based company with product development, manufacturing, and commercial operations.
Position Summary
This role will oversee and manage all aspects of Information Technology systems, ensuring alignment with the business strategies, corporate initiatives, operational processes, and compliance, as well as responsibility for enterprise-wide technology strategy and execution, ensuring IT capabilities directly enable growth, scalability operational efficiency.
This individual will provide enterprise technology leadership with accountability for delivering business outcomes through technology, including:
- Scalable financial and Gross-to-Net operations, for chargebacks, rebates, GP and returns
- Efficient and automated business processes the VP, IT will serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and CFO, translating business strategy into scalable, secure, and insight-driven technology solutions. Additionally, as a key leadership position, the VP of IT will interact with all levels of management and will develop, evolve, and execute the enterprise IT strategy and roadmap. As an experienced leader, the VP of IT will draw on relevant experience in the pharma industry to be a trusted advisor to all stakeholders, including in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, R&D, Quality, Finance, and general Operations functions. The position requires a hands-on, cross-functional mindset and the ability to manage IT requirements.
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise-wide digital transformation, modernizing systems, data infrastructure, and operating processes to support next phase of growth.
- Develop short-term and long-term IT strategy for the company, development, and execution of the IT roadmap, including prioritization and sequencing of key systems with explicit ownership for post-implementation optimization of SAP S/4HANA.
- Collaborate with and advise business and functional leaders on IT matters, to review and implement the IT strategy and roadmap.
- Lead IT strategy in support of M&A, including diligence, integration planning, systems carveouts, and synergy realization across a dynamic deal environment.
- Drive enterprise-wide AI literacy and adoption, ensuring leadership and functional teams understand, leverage, and responsibly deploy AI capabilities. Establish a pragmatic roadmap balancing innovation with cost discipline, enabling competitive advantage through data and automation
- Define and implement a cybersecurity program commensurate with company size, regulatory obligations, and risk profile, aligned to leading frameworks. Establish measurable KPIs (e.g., vulnerability remediation timelines, incident response readiness, penetration testing results) and provide regular reporting to executive leadership.
- Design and implement enterprise-wide dashboards and KPI reporting, enabling real-time visibility into financial, commercial, and operational performance. Establish standardized executive dashboards for CEO/CFO use, with defined refresh cadence, governance, and data integrity controls.
- Ensure SAP, Vistex, data warehouse, and reporting layers align with business processes and controls.
- Define and execute an optimal annual IT budget that is suitable for the company’s size and complexity of operations.
- Ensure enterprise-wide compliance across all relevant regulatory, financial, and data protection frameworks (e.g., SOX, cGMP, HIPAA), including audit readiness and system validation
- Establish and maintain cloud-based and/or on-site data storage and backup/archiving strategies, including database creation and management.
- Direct the evaluation and implementation of equipment software with existing systems.
- Manage all external IT vendor relationships including staffing, product service agreements, and consultative services.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive IT leadership experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry, including SAP/S4HANA.
- Experience supporting quality management applications through consolidation of processes and applications to harmonize quality operations. Demonstrated successful implementation of end-to-end serialization process and computer validation requirements.
- Experience building, developing, and leading high-performance IT teams
- Experience with M&A environments.
- Experience with FDA interactions to lead IT during regulatory audits/inspections.
- Experience in business processes, management, budgeting, and business operations.
- Experience providing hardware, software, Database, Admin and Security support.
- Substantial experience developing and implementing Disaster Recovery Plans.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related degree required.
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