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 Our Technical Advisory team sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology and industries and thrives on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organizations around the world. A Technical Advisory Group Manager is responsible for driving rapid growth within the Avanade Advisory Business Group. This includes areas such as digital-enabled business strategy, digital experience, and modern approaches to client strategy and technology requirements. 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.
Enjoy your career
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
[1] Find out more about some of our benefits here.
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. [2] Visit our Inclusion & Diversity 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
Learn more To Learn more about the types of projects our Advisory team works on check out these case studies:
[3] Mater Hospital accelerates its digital transformation to keep patients and healthcare workers safe
[4] QBE is transforming its digital customer experience with Avanade and Accenture
[5] Aon Australia: The secret to helping people connect
[6] Blundstone meets customer demand in an agile way
Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:
[7] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrows innovation
[8] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade
ReferencesVisible links
https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits
https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity
http:// https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/mater-digital-transformation
http:// https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/qbe
https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/aon-australia
https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/blundstone-dynamics-365
http:// https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade
