Application Manager

For our partner located in Visp, GI Life Sciences is looking for an:

Application Manager

Start date: ASAP

Contract type: Temporary position

End date: August 31, 2026

Your Mission :

The Application Manager acts as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and the IT organization. He/she is responsible for the full lifecycle of the assigned applications, from functional understanding to operational support.

The role involves ensuring the integration of applications into the existing IT landscape and guaranteeing compliance with security, governance, and documentation standards.

Your Responsibilities :

· Collaborate with stakeholders to collect, analyze, and translate business needs into suitable IT solutions.

· Review and analyze detailed functional requirements and ensure alignment between business expectations and current or future application capabilities.

· Manage applications throughout their lifecycle, including deployment, configuration, optimization, upgrades, support, backup, and restore.

· Ensure application compliance, security, availability, and continuous updates.

· Perform application configuration and customization, as well as routine maintenance of IT infrastructure components (servers and related systems).

· Interact with internal IT teams (infrastructure, network, interfaces, IT security, enterprise architecture) and external vendors.

· Provide day-to-day operational support for local IT applications, ensuring stability, performance, and compliance with defined standards.

· Participate in IT projects and contribute to their delivery in line with defined standards and concepts.

· Conduct technology scouting, run proof?of?concepts (PoCs), propose new solutions, liaise with vendors, and contribute to the definition of global IT standards (storage, backup, laboratory software).

· Ensure all solutions are properly documented (BSD, procedures, etc.) and that documentation is continuously maintained and up to date.

Your Profile :

· Bachelor's degree in IT; MCSE certification or equivalent in IT system engineering is an asset.

· 5 to 10 years of experience in Application Management and IT system engineering, ideally in a regulated environment.

· Strong understanding of system engineering and IT architecture.

· Solid experience with Application Lifecycle Management and good knowledge of networks, databases, application deployment, IT security, and client?server architectures.

· General understanding of GxP environments.

· Fluent English and fluent German required; Swiss?German is a plus.