Senior Vice President, IT

Critical Needs. Immediate Action. SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company designed to address rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure.

Job Requisition ID: 32877

Department: IT

Category: Corporate - IT

Location: Paris

Date: 25 Sept 2026

Critical Needs. Immediate Action. SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company designed to address rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure. We operate end-to-end across 100+ countries, ensuring 70+ essential medicines for rare diseases, emergency care, and medical countermeasures reach patients and clinicians with urgency – wherever and whenever they are needed. Shaped over the past 25 years by an entrepreneurial, disruptive spirit, SERB combines the focus and agility of a biotech with the scale, reach, and reliability of a global pharmaceutical company — always grounded in medical purpose, not corporate convention. Our 600+ employees are driven by three core values:

• Patients first, always Patients are not a concept — they are why we act, especially when time matters most.
• Impact focused We are agile, entrepreneurial, and disciplined - working smart and learning continuously to deliver results that matter, with the consistency, quality, and trust that critical care demands.
• Team powered We go the extra mile - together - because our shared commitment drives extraordinary outcomes.

Guided by a clear ambition and a relentless focus on patients, SERB continues to expand through selective, innovative acquisitions, launching new treatments and entering new geographies. Across every step — from integration to delivery — our people act with passion, ownership, and determination to ensure life-saving medicines become available to patients who need them, worldwide.

Broad Overview The Senior Vice President, IT is accountable for shaping and delivering the Group’s technology vision, ensuring that IT acts as a key enabler of business performance, scalability, and transformation.

This role encompasses:

• Leading and developing a high-performing global IT organisation, operating across key geographies including the UK, United States, France, and Australia, with a strong focus on alignment, engagement, and delivery excellence;
• Ensuring the reliability, security, and continuous evolution of core IT operations, including infrastructure, cybersecurity, business applications, and data/BI capabilities, to support business continuity and growth at a global level;
• Driving disciplined financial stewardship, with responsibility for a c.€3m global IT budget, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and prioritisation of high-value initiatives;
• Defining and executing a forward-looking IT strategy, fully aligned with the Group’s strategic priorities, leveraging best-in-class and emerging technologies to enhance efficiency, enable innovation, and support the organisation’s scale and ambitions.

As Senior Vice President, IT, your responsibilities will include:

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Contribute actively to the Group’s strategic and operational governance, ensuring IT priorities are fully aligned with business objectives and growth roadmap;
• Define and embed a clear IT vision, positioning technology as a key driver of performance, scalability, and transformation across the organisation;
• Lead strategic and operational planning, prioritising IT initiatives to maximise business impact and enable innovation;

Organisation, Talent & Change

• Build and lead a high-performing IT organisation, including talent development, succession planning, and capability building across geographies;
• Design and maintain an efficient and scalable IT operating model aligned with business needs and cost discipline;
• Lead organisational change initiatives, fostering engagement, accountability, and alignment with Group values;

IT Delivery, Operations & Service Excellence

• Oversee the delivery and continuous improvement of global IT operations (infrastructure, applications, data/BI, and services), ensuring reliability, security, and performance;
• Establish clear IT governance frameworks, objectives, and operating procedures, and ensure consistent execution across the organisation;
• Lead enterprise-wide business continuity and disaster recovery planning to safeguard operations;

Financial Stewardship & Investment Management

• Define, manage, and optimise IT operating and capital budgets, ensuring disciplined allocation of resources;
• Identify and prioritise value-accretive investments across