Project Manager

Location- Leiden – NL

The Role

As Project Manager, you will oversee complex projects within Pharming’s Global Product Strategy and Clinical Development function, ensuring effective planning, execution, and monitoring of multidisciplinary initiatives, with Leiden as your primary working location,

Working closely with the Global Product Strategy Lead and Clinical Development Lead, you will coordinate cross-functional activities and drive alignment across teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget, and in full compliance with quality standards and regulatory requirements.

This role is highly dynamic and hands-on, requiring a proactive, solution-oriented mindset. You bring strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, enabling you to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders and keep projects on track in a fast-paced environment

Key responsibilities:

• A global role involving collaboration with colleagues across multiple time zones, responsible for leading project management activities for the leniolisib Integrated Product Strategy Team and Clinical Development Team. 


• Builds connections that lead to high performing collaborative working relationships globally across the organization by utilizing strong interpersonal and leadership skills.


• Develop an integrated project plan across all relevant functions with overall timelines, relevant milestones and identification of interdependencies, critical path activities and associated risks and risk mitigation strategies. 


• Along with other members of the Integrated Product Strategy Team and Clinical Development Teams, contribute to the development of programme strategy and work with the teams as required to drive projects through milestones. 


• Contribute to the development of strategic documents and help prepare for phase transitions in collaboration with the Development Teams as required


• Responsible for high quality and accurate project planning input into enterprise planning systems 


• Prepare and manage the effective coordination and facilitation of cross-functional team meetings from a project management perspective (agendas, minutes, capture actions etc) 


• Provide Project Management expertise in the areas of planning, tracking, critical path analysis, risk management and budget tracking. 


• Prepare and present monthly reporting to team and stakeholders to show progress, results; anticipate risks and provide recommendations and solutions. 


• Other duties as assigned.

Your profile:

• Bachelor’s degree required.


• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in project management within a global pharmaceutical environment, including exposure to drug development phases.


• PMP (or equivalent) certification strongly preferred.


• Strong project management expertise, including planning (e.g., MS Project), resource and capacity management, tracking, scenario planning, budgeting, contingency planning, critical path analysis, and risk management.


• Collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.


• Adaptable and able to work effectively with diverse personalities and working styles.


• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly and persuasively engage stakeholders at all levels and across disciplines.


• Strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage competing demands effectively.


• Proven ability to influence subject matter experts and drive alignment.


• Critical thinker with a results-oriented mindset.


• Flexibility to work across time zones, including US-based stakeholders.


• Willingness to travel to the US occasionally (approximately twice per year).


• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Who we are

We’re built on a simple belief: people living with rare diseases deserve more.

Pharming is a global biotechnology company taking on some of the toughest rare disease challenges. We develop and commercialize innovative therapies for rare and ultra-rare immunological and genetic diseases with significant unmet need, where our scientific and commercial expertise, long-term commitment, and real partnership can help advance care.

We put patients at the heart of our work. Their insights, along with those of caregivers, clinicians, scientists, and partners, shape our strategy, guide our decisions, and help turn science into meaningful progress. We keep it simple, act with urgency, and get it done — expanding access to approved therapies, advancing high-value pipeline programs, and building a leading global rare disease company.

Our vision is simple: a world where people living with rare diseases don’t wait for progress or care. Together with the communities who inspire us, we’re opening new possibilities — proving that breakthroughs aren’t just discovered. They’re created together.

Ready to make a difference? Join us.

What it’s like to work here

At Pharming, every role helps move rare disease therapies closer to the people who need them. We make it happen together, across teams, disciplines, and borders, because breakthroughs don’t happen in silos. Rare diseases are complex, and meaningful progress takes people who ask better questions, challenge each other, and turn insight into action. Here, you won’t work on the sidelines. Pharming is a place for builders, problem-solvers, and bold thinkers who move with urgency, take ownership, and stay focused on what matters most: improving the lives of people living with rare diseases. Advancing rare disease care isn’t the work of one team or one leader. It’s all of us, building what’s next together.

In addition, we offer:

•    Competitive year salary

•    8.33% holiday allowance

•    A minimum of 30 vacation days for a healthy work-life balance

•    Excellent pension plan to secure your future