OCM Advisory, Manager (South)

Job description

Manager, Organizational Change Management (South)

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

A manager within the OCM Advisory Practice represents the Organizational Change capability in pursuits and provides engagement leadership, execution, and tactical project coordination with Director oversight. Most OCM pursuits and projects align to Business Transformations (ERP/CRM), Collaboration and Security (M365 suite), Data & AI Adoption (GenAI/AI, Copilot, PowerBI, etc.), or Strategic Change (Op Model & Org Design, M&A, Change COE).

Skills and experiences

• 5+ years of experience in a client facing Organizational Change role with digital transformation, technical & functional project experience and prior experience with ERP/CRM Transformation
• Previous relevant management consulting professional services firm experience, preferably with a global management consultancy firm.
• Relevant undergraduate degree
• Experience working in cross-functional and complex, highly matrixed teams
• Experience in leading pursuits and justifying the organizational change value proposition for an engagement with both internal and client stakeholders
• Outstanding communication and presentation (verbal and written) skills
• Ability to be flexible, demonstrate critical thinking and work effectively in fluid, complex environments
• Expert in the Microsoft Office product suite

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

What you'll do

• Build lasting relationships with both clients and internal business development and solution area teams
• Story tell and storyboard in client deliverables and RFPs, with both an eye for detail and leading and upskilling junior practitioners to do the same
• Define the strategic vision and management and measurement of related change journey in partnership with clients
• Drive successful adoption of change initiatives within the client's organization and leading conversations with both client and project teams in organizational change related topics
• Own delivery management activities related to OCM workstream, including project plan development, status metrics and reporting, and stakeholder management
• Perform quantitative and qualitative analyses to implement change models
• Develop and executing strategic learning or training curriculum plans, including management of offshore training developers, to prepare individuals for success during and after the change
• Assess organizational readiness and current state vs. future state gaps
• Play a key role in business development and expanding the footprint at existing clients or origination at new clients

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Learn more

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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

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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!

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