Vendor and partner management: Track record of evaluating, selecting, and managing AI and technology vendors, systems integrators, and consulting partners — running structured evaluations and pilots, writing clear statements of work and success criteria, negotiating alongside procurement and legal, and holding partners accountable to performance, cost, and timeline. You are comfortable in the tooling — writing prompts, wiring agents to data and systems, and testing until the output is trustworthy enough to run the business on — and equally comfortable mapping an end-to-end business process, finding where the friction and the value actually sit, and redesigning the workflow around the new capability.