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Avanade Inc. Workplace Advisory - Grp Manager in Melbourne, Australia
Pair your adaptable, collaborative, curious mindset with your tech skills, understanding of people and business to help clients digitally transform their ways of working. Better experience for employees? Improved employee engagement and productivity via GenAI technology? 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 Workplace Advisory team sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology and industries and thrives on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organisations around the world. As a Group Manager you will collaborate with senior leadership and participate on engagements advising clients at the highest strategic level with big-picture and tactical guidance on how technology enables a variety of business outcomes. Immerse yourself in a diversely talented team, and a leader in digital, workplace and employee experience transformation, backed by the power of Accenture and Microsoft.
As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning and ambitious growth in return. This includes supporting our clients on their most advanced Workplace Experience opportunities and challenges such as demonstrating and maximising the value of GenAI technologies and M365 Copilot.
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
Develop employee and team centric experiences (using data driven insights) to drive innovation, collaboration, productivity improvement and retention of top talent at scale.
Support Workplace Advisory Practice Leadership on client engagements, responsible for the project management and associated deliverables.
Develop and evolve future focused workforce and organisation transformation strategies propositions and solutions.
Drive cultural and operating model change as part of the transition to a high-performing, employee-centric modern workplace.
Support the identification, development, selling and implementation of workplace experience propositions in response to market demand and digital trends.
Assist senior team members with sales efforts including development of client proposals and pitch mechanics. Delivering sales presentations to clients and responding to RFPs.
Skills and experiences
Solid consulting or advisory experience with a focus on client workplace and employee experience strategies.
Experience sellinintegrated workplace / employee experience solutions, and the associated organisational/cultural change as a sales leader.
Experience with defining high level enterprise digital (business and technology) architectures to support employee experience transformation strategy recommendations
Workplace solution experience should cover one or more of the following:
Digital platforms to promote staff and supplier/partner engagement
AI driven opportunity identification and value calculation
Culture change centred on innovation and/or digital
Operating model and organisation design
Workforce analytics and development of predictive models
Solutions for enabled co-creation and innovation
Digitally enabled information and knowledge management
Task and/or process automation and augmentation
Hyper-personalised learning, goal planning and performance management
Experience in providing outstanding insights from a range of industry experience to help guide clients on how to evolve and develop their employee experience or customer service proposition.
About you
Characteristics that can spell success for this role
Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder
Resilient, adaptable, flexible
Intellectually curious and passionate about tech
Storyteller and engaging content creator
Enjoy your career
Some of the best things about working at Avanade
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 - Utilise 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
A great place to work
Avanade has been recognized as a Great Place to Work. It reflects our commitment to creating a culture where everyone can thrive and do their best by being their most authentic selves.
We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page.
Our Values:
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:
Avanade’s Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
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