EX Advisory Practitioner

Job Description

Role Title: EX Advisory Practitioner
Level: Manager, Director, Senior Director
Location: London with 100% flexibility to travel
Company: Avanade – Project: Accenture Microsoft Business Group

About Avanade’s Advisory Practice

Want to create value with digital and turn your ideas into human impact? So do we.

There’s one in every group—the person who dreams big and has the motivation to bring their ideas to life, even as others might roll their eyes and prefer to play it safe. Are you that person? One who isn’t afraid to break the mold and who gets inspired by the power of digital to transform organizations and ways of working? Because we are building teams of people like that to help our clients unlock the power they need now and own what’s next.

At Avanade Advisory, we are breaking apart the traditional process of setting strategies and goals first, then finding technologies to achieve them. In the digital age, there’s no time for that linear process. We partner with clients to accelerate value from digital innovation by being bold, imaginative – and fast. We think big and deliver personally. We relentlessly challenge, inspire, and support our clients and each other.

Want the agility and energy of a start-up, backed by the resources of Accenture, Microsoft and the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT Sloan School of Management? Here you will find a team of people who thrive on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organizations around the world. Ultimately, we’re not just making business better. We’re making life better for our clients and their customers.

Introducing the Accenture Microsoft Business Group

Accenture and Microsoft recently announced the launch of the Accenture Microsoft Business Group (AMBG). The Accenture Microsoft Business Group elevates a longstanding strategic alliance among Avanade, Accenture, and Microsoft by combining service capabilities, global scale and joint solution development in an unparalleled way to help clients to digitally transform their businesses and gain competitive advantage through full leverage of the Microsoft eco-system. In fact, AMBG represents the largest partner investment in leveraging the enterprise-wide potential of Microsoft technology to date and brings together the largest group of Microsoft solution experts in the world.
As part of AMBG, we are building a market-leading Advisory team to help some of the world’s largest and most well-known companies master their digital transformation journey with Microsoft. The team is growing rapidly and need to recruit inspiring business technology advisors and expert engineers with a passion for shaping, selling and delivering transformational solutions that make a real difference for our clients.”

About the role

By choosing to work with us you will be joining one of the UK’s leading business technology advisory practices, recognized for providing insightful Microsoft eco-system enabled solutions to complex business problems, deep industry expertise and for the quality of our work. You will work in a fast-paced environment that is innovative, collaborative and supportive of your personal and professional development. Our track record of commercial success and our growth ambition will provide you with a fantastic platform for your career.

Your role will focus on growing a Microsoft eco-system enabled Employee Experience transformation line of business spanning sales, delivery leadership and capability development.

Your responsibilities

You will focus on providing business technology advisory and implementation insights and services to help clients achieve real business growth through employee experience transformation. You will work with account teams to shape, sell and oversee the delivery of propositions that address client challenges in the areas of employee experience strategy and transformation, employee analytics and insights, employee value proposition modernization, workforce transformation, culture change and physical workplace design.

You will be passionate about:

· Developing employee and team centric experiences (using data driven insights) that have parity with, or are better than, customer experiences to drive innovation, productivity improvement and retention of top talent at scale

· Developing and evolving future focused workforce and organization transformation strategies propositions and solutions

· Driving cultural and operating model change as part of the transition to a high-performing, employee-centric modern workplace

As a Manager / Group Manager, you will:

· Support the identification, development, selling and implementation of EX propositions in response to market demand and technology trends

· Support the sales cycle and contracting process

· Lead project teams and manage end to end delivery. Ensure clients are satisfied with the quality of work, and the outcomes delivered

· Grow AMBG Advisory EX capacity and focus in response to market signals and project demand

· Support regional teams with their capability development and skills growth

In addition, as a Director / Senior Director you will:

· Play a leading role in business development / sales activities by working closely with account and sales teams to ensure proposition and solution alignment, i.e. alignment across client expectations, contract, financials, solution and capability to deliver

· Lead recruitment and talent development activities

· Lead marketing and communications activities to help us grow our business

About your future role

We are looking for candidates who have between 10 (Manager / Group Manager) and 15 (Director / Senior Director) years of relevant experience, and who can demonstrate skills and a successful track record in the following areas:

· Extensive experience in leading the design and development of client employee experience strategies

· Experience in providing best-in-class insights from a range of industry experience to help guide clients on how to evolve and develop their employee value proposition

· Experience carrying and delivering a quota for selling large, integrated EX solutions, and the associated organizational/cultural change as a sales leader. EX solution experience should cover one or more of the following:

o Digital platform to promote staff and supplier/partner engagement

o Predictive analytics and insights to drive workforce planning and hiring decisions

o Solutions for network enabled co-creation and innovation

o Digitally enabled knowledge and expert connections

o Task and/or process automation and augmentation

o Hyper-personalized learning, goal planning and performance management

· Experience with workforce, culture and operations assessments, and the development of actionable insights, to inform organizational change, covering people, processes and technology

· Experience with defining high level enterprise digital (business and technology) architectures to support employee experience transformation strategy recommendations

· Experience of shaping, selling and overseeing implementation of employee experience, organizational change and workforce transformation programmes

· Very strong, executive level communication skills (both written and verbal), and the ability to develop and mentor others

· Ability to collaborate with technical resources to define solutions and the underpinning technical architecture. Familiarity with industry-recognised Agile-DevOps methodologies / frameworks

You will have a bachelor’s degree in a business or technology-related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. An advanced degree or MBA is strongly preferred.

Additional desirable experiences include

· Developed and cultivated C-Level client relationships in HR, Technology and Line of Business domains

· Deep industry knowledge covering two or more of the following: Banking, Insurance, Products, Retail, Energy, Utilities, Health and Public Sector

· Experience in large-scale culture change initiatives in a corporate environment

· Contributed to the design, assembly, pricing and delivery of CX and HR transformation deals

· Well-versed in new technology-enablement and transformation leadership to help clients assess, build, transform and operationalize new capabilities

What’s in it for you?

All of our Technology professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with others. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

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About Avanade

Avanade leads in providing innovative digital services, business solutions and design-led experiences for its clients, delivered through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. Our professionals combine technology, business and industry expertise to build and deploy solutions to realize results for clients and their customers. Avanade has 29,000 digitally connected people across 23 countries, bringing clients the best thinking through a collaborative culture that honors diversity and reflects the communities in which we operate. We welcome all, and seek talented individuals who can bring their whole self to work, build inclusive teams and encourage diversity inside and outside the organization. Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation. Learn more at www.avanade.com