Lynn Fairhead
IT Process, Portfolio and Program Leader
- Role
- Sr Director, Portfolio Management at Grainger
- Location
- Des Plaines, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Lynn Fairhead
I am a process and quality focused Leader with over 25 years’ experience leading and participating in IT initiatives. I have experience in managing large IT portfolios and programs that contain demand for technical and digital solutions to solve business problems. I offer a proven record of translating complex requirements to successfully implementing solutions across a large-scale, multi-channel landscape. I pay keen attention to business processes, delivery times and people readiness to accept the change. I am a Leader who has a passion for hiring the right talent, an ability to develop others and the skill to build relationships that extends from grassroots through executive leadership to ensure the business needs are met.
Experience
Sr Director, Portfolio Management
Apr 2023 — Present · Lake Forest, IL, US
Enable and facilitate cross functional strategic planning by partnering with key stakeholders in IT, Finance, HR, and Legal to translate the long-term strategy into actionable technology delivery plans. Help Executive Leaders and their teams bring technology forward to create a competitive advantage for how we grow and develop our global organization. Manage S4 Roadmap and S4 HANA migration to AWS Cloud. Lead a team of Sr. Portfolio Managers focused on technology solutions for Finance, HR, Legal, SAP, Infrastructure, Security and Data & Analytics - ideation through execution.
Education
Northern Illinois University
Bachelor of Science (BS), cum laude
1988 — 1992
Skills
- IT Strategy
- Software Project Management
- Vendor Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Scrum
- Pmo
- Pmp
- Leadership
- Agile Project Management
- Product Management
- E-Commerce
- Visio
- Integration
- Project Portfolio Management
- Large Group Facilitation
- Project Management
- Program Management
- Program Facilitation
- Requirements Analysis
- Agile Methodologies
- Agile Leadership
- Management
- Sap
- Change Management
- Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
- Business Analysis
- Business Intelligence
- Process Improvement
- Sdlc
- Team Leadership
- Vendor Relationship Management
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