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Avanade Inc. Director, AI and Data Advisory (Northeast) in Jersey City, New Jersey
Director, AI and Data Advisory
Candidates must be based in the Northeast region
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 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. An AI and Data Advisory Director is responsible for driving rapid growth within the Avanade Advisory business.
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
Lead engagements advising clients at the highest strategic level with big-picture and tactical guidance on how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes.
Advise clients on the strategic impacts of cloud adoption, data transformations, advanced analytics, machine learning, and intelligent automation.
Help your clients monetize their data, creating all new experiences for employees and customers alike.
You will need to be entrepreneurial, enterprising and personable, possessing outstanding leadership and managerial qualities, that allow you to assume a critical role in the Advisory Practice with an ability to scale over time.
The work you're doing in this role will be of a Strategic nature rather than a software or technology architecture deliverable.
Skills and experiences
12+ years of Management Consulting experience from a top management or professional services firm
5+ years of demonstrated experience interfacing with and selling to executive level clients
Experience in Advisory solutioning and estimation
Experience in developing Data Strategy, business cases and roadmaps associated with Data transformation, cloud migrations, etc.
Experience in conducting Data Strategy and Governance assessments, developing future state process and governance definitions
Willingness to travel to client site periodically as needed
Previous experience working on multiple Advisory / Strategy engagements in a highly matrixed external client facing environment, with Talent, Project, Budget Management responsibilities
Superb communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
Aptitude for critical and analytical thinking as well as the capacity to design and accept out-of-the box solutions
Autonomous, positive problem solver, and aptitude to work independently or part of a multi-disciplinary team
Practical Business Architecture experience (business / operation models, personas, process modelling)
Knowledge of the Data / Analytics strategy and COE definition and development
Bachelor's degree in related field, MBA preferred
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 are able to 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
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 - 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 here - https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/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 Inclusion & Diversity page - https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity
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:
https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/mater-digital-transformation
https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/insights/clients
https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/blundstone-dynamics-365
Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:
https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade
Compensation for roles at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in New York as set forth below and information on benefits offered is here.
Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role
New York Metro Area: $223,500-$263,000
We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants, or job seekers because of their race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other protect group status as defined by law.
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