Turn an ambiguous "50/50 estimate" into disciplined execution through structured governance, milestones, RAID management and crisp decision escalation; coordinate deeply technical teams without needing to be the architect, especially across environment, DBA, application, custom code and test workstreams; manage external/vendor dependencies well, especially where license delivery, release notes, product roadmap clarity and demo/education sessions with the vendor influence timing and stakeholder confidence; handle execution under constrained capacity, including explicit prioritization of BAU versus change, and explain trade-offs credibly to senior stakeholders; translate a technical smoke test into executive decisions: whether to progress, pause, re-scope, or sequence follow-on capability work. Would prioritize someone who has led platform upgrades, major release validation, or large-scale regression/smoke-test programmes where infrastructure readiness, software licensing, technical SMEs, test coordination and business communication all had to move in lockstep.