• Senior Vendor Manager with over thirty years’ business experience, including twenty-five years’ experience in delivering all aspects of project and programme management, leading teams on large and medium scale projects and programmes • Have worked exclusively in Vendor Management since Jan. 2020, establishing and growing the function, which became the prototype for Vendor Management practices and the Vendor Management Policy within EirGrid• Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills, with a collaborative management style, well versed in forming strategic relationships, influencing key people, and in reporting on partner performance• Commercially astute and customer-focused project and programme manager with a highly successful background in managing the complete project lifecycle, and in scoping, designing and delivering complex programmes - therefore understanding Business needs when liaising with Vendors• MSP and Prince2 Certified Practitioner; PMP and ITIL Certifications• Proven experience in working in partnership with vendors of various sizes in ensuring the success of projects involving business processes as well as Infrastructure/software delivery• Enjoys being part of, as well as managing and motivating, cross-functional programmes and project teams, and thrives in highly pressurised and challenging working environments
Listed skills include Project Delivery, Sdlc, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, and 35 others.