Global Practice Lead

6 months ago

Edmonton, Canada Avanade Full time

What is Avanade X?

Over Avanade's 20+ years, we've delivered the most intelligent, engaging, industry leading, award-winning experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. As technology and human expectations evolve, we see incredible opportunities for customers, products, and workplaces—where imagination is the only limit.

Avanade X is our way to bring unconventional thinking, exceptional creativity, and our unparalleled engineering heritage to think big and make it real. Our vision of the future goes far beyond concepts to enable and deliver the impact our clients, their people, customers, and communities need.

We support each other with great work to push boundaries, connect technology with what matters to people first, and grow with our clients. If you feel this is a great fit for your path, we’d love to talk.

About the role

The Workplace Experience (WX) Practice helps leading businesses and brands create happier employees and customers, accelerate growth, and empower the future of work. As the Global WX Practice Lead, you are responsible for building Avanade X’s reputation as a leader in WX services. You own our practice strategy ensuring our practice is clear-eyed on the problems we are uniquely built to serve and that we grow and evolve our expertise and talent mix to capture that market share. You drive client value and business growth at every step; shaping origination campaigns, enabling partners and sellers, advising on deal pursuit strategies, guiding solutioning, sponsoring strategic client relationships and ensuring we deliver quality. Our differences are part of what makes the difference with our clients and in our work, and you are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive team that is world class. You live our core values and model a team-first attitude that brings our employee value proposition to life for your team and set the tone for community development. You are responsible for creating and evolving global practice plays, assets and solutions leveraged world-wide and work across Avanade to maximize our impact. To be successful, you will build and maintain strong influence-relationships with clients, the global practice community, and Avanade’s integrated go-to-market function and collaborate with business leaders from across Avanade.

**Responsibilities**:

- Practice Leadership & Growth
- Define, align, implement, and evolve global practice strategy, vision, and plans to ensure that Avanade has market leading capabilities in our chosen markets.
- Define global practice priorities for Area and Region Practice Leaders ensuring global business group (BG) and enterprise-wide Avanade priorities are incorporated.
- Manage global practice team in line with agreed plans and KPIs.
- Build strong relationships with global Avanade, Microsoft, and Accenture leaders to drive growth of the practice.
- Cultivate innovation.

Sales, solutioning and delivery
- Pro-actively work with the Avanade Sales, Client Account and Integrated Go-to-Market (IGTM) to identify, qualify, and prioritize strategic high value opportunities and support sales development and closure
- Lead and/or provide support for sales development and closure.
- Own and extend client relationships helping Avanade to broaden its client network and deliver an exceptional client experience.

Create and evolve practice assets and solutions
- Define and implement global asset and solution plan for the practice. Maintain, communicate, drive usage of, manage the full lifecycle of the practice assets and solutions inventory.
- Enable areas and regions with the right assets and skills to sell and deliver the practice assets and solutions inventory.
- Understand practice-related trends globally and develop and evolve practice assets and solutions to continue to meet global client objectives.
- Harvest ideas and assets from the areas and regions, deploy globally.

Attract, Develop, and Retain Practice Talent
- Define and manage implementation of a holistic global practice talent plan to meet client demand, the I&D agenda, and ensure a robust, future ready workforce.
- Define and manage implementation of global practice employee engagement and well-being plan.
- Determine skill requirements needed across the global practice.
- Own, orchestrate, and evolve practice career development pathways to help practitioners broaden their skills and experience, undertake new roles and secure promotion.
- Develop leaders of the future and own succession planning for various leadership roles.

Manage Deployment of Practice Practitioners
- Define and align global practice workforce needs and plans to ensure the right capabilities and capacity to deliver the practice in all areas/regions.
- Own global workforce plan and practice market utilization and chargeability targets ensuring these are met or exceeded at the global level (roll up).

Who you are
- 10+ years of experience working in digital transformation or WX Strategy with a significant amount of

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