Come join us:

In this role, you will have overall accountability for a region portfolio of business that delivers significant sales and revenue generation annually. You will be a member of the relevant Region Solution Area Leadership Team working with your counterparts in the other regions and the Advanced Technology Centers (ATC). The Modern Workplace Solution Area helps clients create sustainable business value from their workplace investments in the near term and long term (evergreen services). This role reports directly to the Canadian Technology Business Group Lead and has a dotted reporting relationship to the relevant Area SA Lead. This role manages Region Practice Leads aligned to the SA. As their leader, you will provide leadership and guidance to ensure consistent and relevant build of priority skills in the Practices.

What you'll do:

• Solution Area Leadership-Establish and sustain strategic relationships with regional Microsoft leaders, partners and clients. Align region strategies and priorities, including approach to joint pursuits and bring this to life within the region's portfolio. Drive achievement of shared objectives and goals.

• Practice Assets and Solutions-Customize global practice assets and solutions to address client needs in the region

• Sales Support-Represent the relevant SA in the region and support deal pursuits, deal solutioning and solution QAs as required, reviews, and approvals with deep technical expertise in domains relevant to the SA

• Delivery- Implement solutioning standards for the SA and contribute to the evolution of global solution methods and guidelines for the SA

• Capabilities- Build business cases for investments in the SA to help grow the required capabilities, solutions, and offerings to meet strategic growth objectives

• People & Culture- Support people activities, including attracting, hiring, staffing, skills forecasting, and career development in the region

Skills and experiences:

• Experience growing a technology business through strategy and sales contribution

• Experience establishing a presence in the target market and in the minds of key clients through client interactions and executive presence

• Experience with sales principles and practices, including business development, marketing, and complex channel management

• Ability to effectively team with peers in a large, matrixed organizations

• Excellent leadership and communication skill, especially strong influencing and negotiation capabilities

• Track record in developing and growing long term, high value client relationships

About you:

• Deep technical expertise in Microsoft Modern Workplace related technologies (e.g. M365, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform)

• Strong consulting / project-based background, including assessing and managing opportunity and risk associated with large scale, complex projects

• Ability to guide and direct leadership teams in development, product, and promotion of solutions offerings

• Significant experience with offshore teams and delivery

• Ability to drive complex processes, implementation and stakeholder management at speed and possess ability to handle ambiguous and escalated situations

• Ability to build partnerships with organizations of a scale, complexity, and sophistication like Accenture and Microsoft

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade :

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft's Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] 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 communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to 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 [2] 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 Infrastructure team works on check out these case studies:

• [3] VentilatorChallengeUK manufactures 20 years' worth of ventilators in 12 weeks to help save lives[4]

• [5] Landmark Information Group finds a new home for its data in the cloud[6]

Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

• [7] Avanade Insights [8] -[9] [10] exchange ideas that drive tomorrow's innovation

• [11] Inside Avanade [12] -[13] [14] explore what life is like working at Avanade[15]

References

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1. https://www.avanade.com/en/career/benefits
2. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity
3. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/ventilator-challenge-uk
4. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/ventilator-challenge-uk
5. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/landmark-cloud-native
6. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/landmark-cloud-native
7. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
8. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
9. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
10. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
11. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade
12. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade
13. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade
14. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade
15. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade