Modern Workplace Regional Practice Lead, Group Manager

Introduction

Our Modern Workplace Solution Area works with our clients to empower their employees to work from anywhere, on any device, with the tools and data they need to succeed. They want to achieve faster value, lower costs, better security and compliance, and happier employees. They want to unlock new opportunities for growth, innovation and differentiation. Our Modern Workplace technology business group offers expertise, scale and innovation to help our clients build a solid foundation for a successful digital transformation on the Microsoft platform.

Come join us

The Regional Practice Lead - Workplace Engineering leads the Workplace Engineering Practice for Canada. The Workplace Engineering Practice helps our clients adopt and leverage the latest Microsoft Modern Workplace tools including M365, W365, and AVS.

Together we do what matters!

What you'll do:

• Practice Leadership and Growth - Define and implement a strategy to ensure the region has market leading capabilities.

• Sales, Solutioning, and Delivery - Proactively work with our sales team to identify, qualify, and prioritize opportunities that will drive additional sales and revenues

• Create and Evolve Practice Assets and Solutions - Deploy practice assets and solutions localizing them for use in specific Client Groups and accounts

• Attract, Develop, and Retain Practice Talent - Define and manage implementation of a regional practice talent plan to meet client demand, and to ensure a robust, future ready workforce

• Manage Deployment of Practice Practitioners - Define and align region practice workforce needs and plans with global, area, and Workforce Planning and Execution leaders.

Skills and experiences

• Demonstrates and is recognized as an eminent thought leader internally (ideally externally as well) in their practice

• Ability to build organizational culture, drive employee engagement, strengthen inclusion and diversity, reduce attrition, and attract top talent

• Market-focused with a growth mindset

• Ability to collaborate effectively in a highly matrixed company to deliver results within a region

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role

• Be a leader and manage a dynamic team to drive project success and foster collaboration

• Be an adviser to emerging technologists on career growth opportunities, as well as provide performance reviews and feedback when necessary.

• Be a relationship builder, engage with clients to nurture strong relationships and ensure their satisfaction

• Be opportunistic in proactively identifying business opportunities to enhance and expand the range of business solutions provided to clients

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!

Together we do what matters.

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] ~~~ here.

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 Modern Workplace team works on check out these below:

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