Organisational Change Management, Senior Manager / Manager
Want to create value with digital and turn your ideas into human impact? So do we.
There’s one in every group—the person who dreams big and has the motivation to bring their ideas to life, even as others might roll their eyes and prefer to play it safe. Are you that person? One who isn’t afraid to break the mould and who is passionate about the power of digital to transform organisations and ways of working? Because we are building teams of people like that to help our clients unlock the power they need now and own what’s next.
At Avanade Advisory, we are breaking apart the traditional process of setting strategies and goals first, then finding technologies to achieve them. In the digital age, there’s no time for that linear process. We partner with clients to accelerate value from digital innovation by being ambitious, imaginative – and fast. We think big and deliver personally. We relentlessly challenge, inspire, and support our clients and each other.
Want the agility and energy of a start-up, backed by the resources of Accenture, Microsoft and the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT Sloan School of Management? Here you will find a team of people who thrive on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organisations around the world. Ultimately, we’re not just making business better. We’re making life better for our clients and their customers.
If that sounds like you, you sound good to us. Find your next opportunity at Avanade Advisory.
About the role
Avanade is looking for a Manager/Senior Manager to join their Organisational Change Management practice. As part of Avanade’s Advisory Group, our role is to help clients develop and deliver their digital workplace strategies, addressing the organisational and employee impact. This is a non-technical role that focuses on people and organisational change, working within an exciting and dynamic technology driven consultancy.
The mission is to support our clients in understanding the organisational and people impact of their digital journey. Working with our clients we help them define change strategies to transform their working structures and processes, drive adoption and deliver the expected return on their digital workplace strategy. You will focus on the organisational, people and process side of change. Structured in your approach, you will have a strong set of people management and influencing skills and bring a dynamic and hands-on approach. You will play a key role throughout the project lifecycle, interfacing with clients, program management and technology delivery. You will bring experience and grow your capability, and actively contribute to developing the Organisational Change Management offerings.
In this role, you will
Understand the client’s business change journey and, using a structured and analytical approach, build and implement a multi-faceted Change Management Plan that will drive the positive outcomes around organisation, roles, process, collaboration and benefit realisation. A Manager/Senior Manager is responsible for:
- Working in partnership with Avanade leads, participation in the development of change solutions and scoping out change efforts that meet the unique needs of the client.
- Application of formal change architectures, models, and frameworks.
- Definition of strategic vision and management and measurement of related change journey.
- Measurement of short- and long-term business outcomes related to organisational change.
- Development of plans to drive successful adoption of the change within the organisation.
- Quantitative and qualitative analyses to implement change models.
- Distribution of timely and relevant information through a coordinated, attractive, and comprehensive communications strategy.
- Organisational design to improve efficiency and mitigate risks.
- Development and execution of strategic training plans to prepare individuals for success during and after the change.
- Assessment of organisational readiness and current state vs. future state gaps.
- Coordinate and oversee work activities and deliverables of more junior resources.
Your skills
- 6+ years of change management consulting experience from a top management consulting firm and experience working on engagements in a highly matrixed external client facing environment.
- Directly shape and lead change management on major change initiatives.
- Deliver a range of interventions required to successfully embed people change, including: personas, impact assessments, mindset and behaviour change approaches, communications plans, change networks, adoption plans, change effectiveness measurements and business readiness assessments.
- Provide support, guidance and education to Project Managers and solution architects to ensure successful implementation of people change approaches for all projectsandprogrammes.
- Maintain oversight of change management workstream impacts, dependencies and populations impacted, initiating actions to minimize disruption to the business.
- Demonstrable skills in growing client intimacy directly and with business development teams to become a trusted advisor to a client.
- Application of business change management theorieswith Change management and transformation qualifications are favourable (e.g., MSP, Prosci©, APMG Change Management Foundation/Practitioner).
- Have a real passion for technology and how it positively influences development of the workplace and employee roles and experience.
- Aptitude for critical and analytical thinking as well as the capacity to accept out-of-the box solutions.
- Autonomous, positive thinker, highly flexible and willing to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Microsoft technologies experience, e.g. Office 365, Teams, Dynamics CRM, Skype for Business, SharePoint, Yammer etc.
- Outcomes focused
- Passionate about making a difference and supporting teams thrive
What’s in it for you?
- Work for a global practice with opportunities to work across Europe.
- Transparent career progression, with a focus on your strengths and coaching from senior colleagues.
- An attractive salary and on-target compensation plan.
- Work alongside Avanade specialists solving some of the biggest industry challenges across the globe with innovative thinking and cutting-edge tools.
- Access to leading-edge technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills as you help create the latest business trends.
- Build your change capability and certification across recognised change disciplines
- Acquire Microsoft certification for all leading applications and practices.