Region Practice Lead - Canada Azure Platform
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Description du poste
As the Practice Lead for Azure Platform in Canada, you will run a business comprised of over 45 experienced Canadian Azure Platform Consultants. Practices help us deliver exceptional value to our clients with repeatable go-to-market services, industry expertise, and market-leading capability; and help Avanade grow through winning bigger and more complex engagements that require specialist skills across pre-sales through to solutioning and delivery.
Practices are responsible for building and evolving capabilities in line with market and client needs; attracting, developing, and retaining talent; managing deployment of practitioners, and creating/evolving assets and solutions to reduce the cost of sales, delivery, and operations. Practices also provide sales, solutioning and delivery support to help us win and deliver projects and services to clients.
The Azure Platform Practice sits within our Applications and Infrastructure Solution Area alongside our Software Engineering Practice. The Practice Lead will report into the Applications and Infrastructure Solution Area Lead as part of our Technology Business Group.
Role Overview
The Region Practice Lead – Azure Platform is a pivotal role that blends Sales & Solutioning, Delivery Excellence, and People Management. This role owns the strategy that ensures the regional Practice has the right capabilities to seize market advantage and is responsible for driving business growth, supporting sales development & conversion, solutioning & delivery, and our people strategy.
The role is accountable for:
Sales & Solutioning – The Practice is responsible for achieving a sales and revenue number. The Practice Lead will accomplish their goals by teaming with our sales organization in selling the Practice’s offerings/capabilities. This includes either leading or delegating, to assist with qualifying opportunities, developing proposals, solutioning, pricing, presenting, writing contracts, and staffing. The Practice Lead will own and extend client relationships, helping Avanade to broaden its client network and deliver and exceptional client experience.
Delivery Excellence – The Practice is responsible for mobilizing teams and for successful delivery of its projects. The Practice Lead will review sold work and staffing approaches to confirm we are organized for a positive outcome. They will also act as an escalation point when there are challenges in staffing and/or the ongoing delivery of Practice related projects.
People – The Practice is responsible for ensuring the right capabilities are in place, as well as creating a community/culture for its people. The Practice Lead will be supported by a Practice Champion, who will be responsible for the day-to-day people management.
Key Performance Indicators
Owned KPIs:
For their respective Practice, the Practice Lead will own:
Sales Quota (overlay with the Sales team)
Revenue Quota
Delivered Project Profitability
Market utilization and chargeability
Shared KPIs:
Headcount Management per agreed plan
Voluntary attrition
Assets and solutions
Employee engagement
Inclusion, Diversity & Wellbeing
Competencies
Experience growing and leading a profitable technology consulting practice
Deep experience in understanding client needs and selling and delivering solutions utilizing the public cloud
Drives Results, Ensures Accountability, Customer Focus, Attracts Top Talent, Develops Talent, Drives Engagement, Builds Effective Teams
Significant competency and skills working with the Microsoft Azure platform including setting up landing zones, deploying applications and providing advice about how to best take advantage of the capabilities of public cloud
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Strong leadership, communication skills, client presence and focus, and the ability to influence executive stakeholders and clients
Demonstrates and is recognized as an eminent thought leader internally (ideally externally as well)
Ability to build organizational culture, drive employee engagement, strengthen inclusion and diversity, reduce attrition, and attract top talent
Ability to collaborate effectively in a highly matrixed company to deliver results within a region
Experience shaping and developing people skills/capabilities of a large team
Education, Certifications and Experience
Demonstrated experience delivering custom built applications as a developer and as a leader
Has 10+ years’ relevant experience participating in the sales process and leading client engagements
Demonstrated experience deploying applications to public cloud (Azure preferred)
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À propos d’Avanade
Avanade est le chef de file des services numériques, infonuagiques et de conseils innovants, des solutions d’affaires et des expériences orientées vers la conception dans l’écosystème Microsoft. Tous les jours, nos 59 000 professionnels dans 26 pays ont un véritable impact humain auprès de nos clients, leurs employés et leurs clients.
Nous avons reçu le titre de partenaire Global de Microsoft de l’année dans l’intégration de systèmes plus souvent que toute autre entreprise. Avec le plus grand nombre de certifications Microsoft (plus de 60 000) et 18 (sur un total de 18) compétences Or de Microsoft, nous sommes dans une position unique pour aider la croissance des entreprises et pour résoudre leurs plus gros défis.
Nous sommes une entreprise axée sur le personnel, engagée à offrir un milieu de travail inclusif où les employés se sentent à l’aise d’être authentiques. À titre d’entreprise responsable, nous mettons en place un monde durable et nous aidons les communautés sous-représentées à réaliser tout leur potentiel.
Détenue majoritairement par Accenture, Avanade a été fondée en 2000 par Accenture LLP et Microsoft Corporation. Apprenez-en davantage sur www.avanade.com.
