IT Program Director - Pharma

Project overview

Missions

Deliverables

Service Phasing

Tools & Environment

• Global IT program management
• Construction and maintenance of the IT master plan and detailed plans, aligned with the program plan and associated milestones
• Management of DDSI budget, resources, and capacities: tracking consumption, forecasts, alerts
• QCDR (quality, costs, deadlines, resources) management, risk, dependency, decision, and action logs; reporting according to Group standards
• Preparation of trade-offs between business priorities, DDSI constraints, and partner commitments
• Program governance
• Participation in the weekly Core Team, monthly Program Committee, and Steering Committee; contribution to GISC (Group Investment Strategic Committee) files, which manages the governance of the Group's major programs
• Animation of the Platform & Digital stream (stream charter, decision log, RACI) and the design authority with Architecture and Security
• Escalation of critical issues (budget, deadlines, dependencies) to sponsors
• Architecture and digital trajectory
• Definition of the global target architecture linked to the 10 decision points, by country wave and for US / China specificities
• Make / Buy / Upgrade decisions per system; interoperability matrix of existing platforms (MDM, FederateS, SIRION, Content Factory, Engage, iEnvision, Finance…)
• Data scoping: governance and master data of patient organizations, quality, insight traceability, GDPR / health data compliance
• Synergies and dependencies
• Construction and management of the interface with related strategic initiatives: Global CRM / NextGen Stakeholder Engagement and Medical Compass
• Build and formalize synergies between different programs, identifying topics that need to be designed jointly rather than treated as simple dependencies
• Define responsibility scopes and decision rights between initiatives: decisions specific to each program, shared decisions, alignment needs, and arbitration levels
• Ensure co-construction of structuring orientations when they have a transverse impact, particularly on processes, data, user journeys, functionalities, and integration principles
• Implement the necessary alignment bodies and mechanisms to anticipate cross-impacts, synchronize decisions, and avoid divergences between programs
• Identify and manage dependencies, but also opportunities for pooling, convergence, and reuse of common assets or capabilities
• Guarantee the consistency of roadmaps and structuring choices, by making visible the impacts of a decision made in one program on other initiatives
• Prepare and facilitate transverse arbitration when program priorities, constraints, or objectives are not fully aligned
• Preparation of Go Realization and solution selection
• Management of functional specifications for Patient Insight Management and Patient Relationship Management
• IT cost estimation and contribution to the business case and digital roadmap by waves
• Management of consultations / RFPs: specifications, scoring grid, presentations, recommendation
• Realization and deployment
• Management of integrators and software vendors: build, integrations, testing, acceptance, go-live
• Deployment by waves (pilot then extension) and transition to run, in conjunction with the People & Change stream for adoption
• Platform & Digital stream charter, RACI, and meeting schedule
• IT master plan and detailed plans
• IT budget, workload plan, and resource tracking
• Risk, dependency, decision, and action logs
• Current and target architecture, interoperability matrix, Make / Buy / Upgrade decisions
• Functional specifications for Patient Insight Management and PRM
• Architecture, Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Data contribution files
• RFP files, scoring grids, and solution recommendations
• IT component of the Go Realization file (costs, digital roadmap, assumptions)
• Test, deployment, and transition to run plans
• Phase 1 – Bridge to Implementation and Go Realization (December 2026 – February 2027): target architecture, platform prerequisites and solution selection, synergies, cost estimation, digital roadmap, and GISC file
• Phase 2 – Realization (from March 2027, subject to GISC decision): consultations, management of build and deployment by waves – 100% workload
• Dates and workloads will be confirmed during contracting, according to the final GISC decision timeline
• Program management: planning, budget, resources, risks, reporting
• CRM, MDM, content management platforms, and SaaS solutions
• Consultation and vendor/integrator management processes
• Enterprise architecture, integration, data governance, security, and AI/GenAI
• International environment with US partners
• Group standards and governance (GISC, DDSI, GMPA Digital, Architecture, Data Factory, Digital Factory, Security, Privacy, Compliance)

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Paris, France, FR
• Languages: French