IT Risk, Compliance & Validation Lead

In this senior role, you will define and govern IT validation and compliance across Pharming’s global application landscape, ensuring regulatory, audit and validation requirements are met. You will lead independent assurance, manage external partnerships, and uphold a sustainable control environment. You’ll partner with senior leaders to shape strategy, risk-based priorities and remediation governance, enabling Digital Transformation & IT to support enterprise objectives. Your work directly impacts audit readiness, SOX assurance and regulatory inspections, while maintaining autonomy and clear accountability for residual risk.

• competitive salary
• 8.33% holiday allowance
• minimum 30 vacation days
• pension plan

• Define and maintain the global IT validation and compliance strategy, roadmap, policies and control framework
• Establish risk-based principles, decision rights and evidence requirements for validation scope and approvals
• Provide independent assurance over validation activities and challenge incomplete conclusions
• Lead SOX, audits and regulatory readiness activities and manage response governance with senior stakeholders
• Own the enterprise view of compliance health, remediation status and trend reporting
• Oversee outsourced validation and compliance services, including vendor qualification and performance
• Define operating model, qualification, quality and capacity for external partners
• Ensure policy lifecycle and governance alignment with business change and regulatory expectations

• Bachelor in Information Technology
• 12+ years in IT compliance, risk, validation governance, audit or regulatory assurance
• Significant experience in regulated industries (pharma/biotech preferred)
• Proven leadership in regulatory inspections, SOX assurance and complex audits
• Experience governing outsourced compliance or validation services
• Authoritative understanding of computer system validation and data integrity
• Ability to influence senior leaders and maintain independence

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• independent challenge
• IT governance frameworks
• regulatory compliance
• SOX readiness