Giovanni Bignone

Project and Account manager

Greater Genoa Metropolitan Area

About

In my career I have played various roles in the commercial and management areas, and acquired many important skills and attitudes : - Ability to represent Customer needs within the Company organization, leading the internal processes - Managerial skills, both of complex projects and resources (even directly reporting) - Wide communication and negotiation skills - High personal commitment, resilence and passion

Experience

  • Project Manager IT at Omnia
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Renewable Energy & ICT Sales Consultant at Self-employed
    May 2023 - Mar 2024 · 11 mos

  • Account Manager ICT - North Italy customers at Engineering Group
    Apr 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Professional Services and System Integration following TelCos trend to direct business beyond traditional services related to connectivity to those digital and IT (Cloud, Cybersecurity, AI & Advanced Analytics, IoT etc). Customer relationship, offer/tender and contract management.

  • Ericsson (Full-time · 16 yrs)
    • Account Manager Radio & IT
      Dec 2017 - Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      RAN (Radio Access Network) business development, IT and Services (Professional Services, System Integration, maintenance) responsibility. Managed several global RFQ and won some of them for professional services and ADM activities.

    • Sales and Project Manager for Fixed Access and Tx Network
      Jan 2009 - Nov 2017 · 8 yrs 11 mos

      Transport (Optical/DWDM/IP) and Fixed Access NW, responsibility, for Vodafone Italy (HW, SW and services) I got and managed several important contracts in that period; main one "SDH renewal Project", 12ME in 3Ys In 2017 and 2018 I was awarded as a Key contributor.

    • Sales Support and Project Management
      Jan 2006 - Jan 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Project management and sales support for major TelCo and ICT customers in North Italy

  • Marconi PLC (Genova, Italia)
    • Bid & Contract Management - Team Leader (Italian Customers)
      Jan 2003 - Dec 2005 · 3 yrs

      Whole responsibility of BID and Contract Management for Italian Customers, through the coordination of 11 resources, with following major tasks : 1. Team coordination 2. Tenders management (also tenders for Public Adm.) >> about 300 per Y 3. E2E responsibility across the whole BID and delivery process 4. Account management support

    • Senior Contract Manager
      Dec 1997 - Dec 2002 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      E2E Contract management for Italian customers (new and regional operators) having also the responsibility of a team of six resources. Managed +20 customers and +10 contracts

    • Project Manager
      Jan 1992 - Dec 1997 · 6 yrs

      Foreign Customers, mainly Middle East and Brazil. Turn-key & Frame Contract management, granting programs and contract implementation to time-cost-quality, maximizing both Customer satisfaction and Company targets.