Data & AI Strategy Advisory, Group Manager (Canada)

Group Manager, Data & AI Strategy (Canada)

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 Digital 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. The Digital Advisory team provides strategic advice and uses innovative technology (data and analytics, intelligent automation. ERP/ CRM) to drive digital transformation. We deliver our broad range of advisory services through an integrated collaborative approach between our clients and practitioners.

We are seeking a Group Manager/Sr. Manager to expand our Insight & Analytics Advisory capabilities. You will advise clients on the strategic impacts of advanced analytics, machine learning, and intelligent automation. You will help clients monetize their data, creating all new experiences for employees and customers alike. To be successful, you must possess exceptional analytic, interpersonal, and creative thinking capabilities. The work you are doing in this role will be of a strategic nature rather than a software or technology architecture deliverable.

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. Together we do what matters.

What you'll do

• Understand clients' business model and strategy and dig to the root of their challenges to provide advice on how data and AI capabilities can enhance or revolutionize their business model and create actionable solutions.

• Lead cross discipline teams of 2-20 consultants, data scientists, and engineers.

• Develop Data & AI Advisory consultants in your region, ensuring they deliver high quality work for our clients while growing in their careers and preparing for the next level of responsibility.

• Sell and deliver Advisory services through strong consultative selling practices.

• Guide and support the delivery of a broad range of Data, Analytics, RPA and AI related Strategy / Advisory engagements.

• Analyze and understand trends and strategies for identifying and using appropriate approaches and solutions to meet client business, financial and technical objectives.

• Conduct detailed analyses to understand and explain client problems and utilize standard management consulting skills such as facilitation, interviewing, gap analysis, etc.

• Lead the design and delivery of Data/ Business Intelligence/ AI and automation advisory engagements involving strategy, roadmap, and longer-term operating model and COE solutions.

• Support the practice with depth of experience and expertise in the following domains: automation, machine learning, deep learning, advanced analytics, data science, data aggregation & visualization.

• Travel as necessary to client sites and work from our Avanade office 2-3 days a week.

Skills and experiences

• 5+ years of management consulting experience from a top management or professional services firm is required.

• Demonstrated experience interfacing and maintaining relationships with executive level clients.

• Previous experience working on multiple Advisory / Strategy engagements in a highly matrixed external client facing environment, with Talent, Project, & Budget.

• Demonstrable skills in analyzing and understanding a variety of problems experienced by medium to large-scale organizations from strategy to implementation.

• Experience discussing a wide range of strategic imperatives across functional, operational, and technological issues.

• Comprehension of the Data/ Analytics strategy and COE definition; AND/OR, understanding of the Artificial Intelligence space, and the ethical themes for AI such as usage and effectiveness, fairness, transparency, or privacy.

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role

• Autonomous, enterprising, and positive thinker

• 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 - 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.

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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! We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees.

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 Avanade check out these links

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[4] Inside Avanade Blog

[5] Avanade Careers

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 Ontario, Canada as set forth below:

Role Location: Range of starting pay for role:

Ontario, Canada: $144,800 - $171,950

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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.