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Job Description
Group/Senior Manager, Technical Advisory
Pair your adaptable, collaborative, curious mindset with your tech skills to help client digitally transform their ways of working. Better experience for air travelers? Data to help a non-profit better serve kids with needs? An Advisory role at Avanade offers you a purposeful career. Know your clients' needs inside out, work with them beginning to end, enjoy achievements together – and repeat.
Come join us
As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look! Together we do what matters.
What you’ll do
- Strategic Advisory: Provide strategic advice to clients on digital transformation initiatives, including but not limited to digital strategy development, technology strategy, cloud strategy & adoption, application modernization and business process optimization.
- Client Relationship Management: Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, Business Development Executives, and Client Account Leads, understanding their business needs and challenges, and providing tailored digital solutions.
- Team Leadership: Lead and mentor the Tech Advisory team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
- Thought Leadership: Stay abreast of digital trends and technologies as well as contribute to thought leadership in the field of digital and technology transformation.
Skills and Experiences
- Demonstrated ability in a Client Facing role with Management Consulting experience from a top management or IT professional services firm
- Demonstrated experience interfacing with executive level clients
- Previous experience working on multiple workstreams / engagements in a highly matrixed external client facing environment, with Talent & Project & Budget Management responsibilities
- Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills
- Aptitude for creative and/or critical and analytical thinking as well as the capacity to accept out-of-the box solutions
- Autonomous, positive problem solver, highly flexible and willing to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary global team
- Experience discussing and surfacing a wide range of strategic imperatives across functional, operational and technological issues
- Industry experience in one of the following industries preferred – Resources (O&G, Energy), Healthcare, Retail/CPG, Manufacturing, CMT, and Financial Services
- Bachelor’s degree or comparative years experience in related field, MBA preferred
- “2 in a box” sales experience (i.e. aligning with Business Development Executives to support client sales activities)
Preferred experience
- Cross-sector and functional experience highly desirable (Financial Services/ Healthcare/ Life Sciences/ Manufacturing/ Utilities/ Media/ Communications/Supply Chain/Business Applications)
- CIO Strategy and IT Strategy
- IT Operating Model & Governance
- Merger, Acquisition, and Divestitures
- Application Modernization
- Significant IT/Technology industry understanding and/or experience
- Digital Strategy and Transformation, Customer Experience Strategy and Experience Design
- Emerging Technology Strategy and Assessments (RPA, Blockchain, AI/Bots, AR/VR, etc.)
- Technology Cost and Value Optimization
- Cloud Transformation Assessments (Microsoft Azure preferred)
- Best of Breed Working methodologies (Agile, DevOps)
- Data & Business Intelligence Strategy, Insight and Analytics (using Microsoft technologies)
About you
- You are an accomplished leader with experience in an outcome-oriented, entrepreneurial environment. You have demonstrated the ability to develop and execute a strategic plan to drive growth in the region and have management consulting experience.
- You can set a compelling direction for the business and innovative strategies to address customer needs.
- You have a strong business acumen, possess an extensive and distinctive track record of delivering growth, and be able to lead teams effectively.
- Top-shelf clients – our clients accelerate value by being bold, imaginative – and fast. Look at who we work with – you’ve probably heard of them and just might want to work with them, too
- Next-level work – Utilize emerging tech and become adept at solving business critical issues, acquire industry expertise, and a deep understanding of the technologies and capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem
- Flexible work schedule – We provide employees with a flexible work schedule that includes flexible start and end times as well as the ability to work remotely
- Find out more about some of our benefits .
A great place to work
As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!
We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our page.
Create a future for our people that focuses on
- Expanding your thinking
- Experimenting courageously
- Learning and pivoting
Inspire greatness in our people by
- Empowering every voice
- Encouraging boldness
- Celebrating progress
Accelerate the impact of our people by
- Amazing the client
- Prioritizing what matters
- Acting as one
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About Avanade
Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Every day, our 59,000 professionals in 26 countries make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees and their customers.
We have been recognized as Microsoft’s Global SI Partner of the Year more than any other company. With the most Microsoft certifications (60,000+) and 18 (out of 18) Gold-level Microsoft competencies, we are uniquely positioned to help businesses grow and solve their toughest challenges.
We are a people first company, committed to providing an where employees feel comfortable being their authentic selves. As a responsible business, we are building a sustainable world and helping people from underrepresented communities fulfil their potential.
Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation. Learn more at .