Group Manager, Organizational Change Management - Northeast Region

About Avanade’s Advisory Practice

Want to build customer 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 mold and who gets passionate about the power of digital to transform organizations 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, 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 believe big and deliver personally. We relentlessly challenge, encourage, and support our client partners 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 organizations around the globe. 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.

Key Responsibilities:
A Group Manager within the Advisory OCM Practice provides execution and tactical project coordination, with Director oversight and most likely will manage Transformation projects in the ERP/CRM space and team members at the Consultant and Sr. Consultant level while performing the following endeavors:

• Definition of strategic vision and management and measurement of related change journey
• Plans to drive successful adoption of the change within the organization
• Quantitative and qualitative analyses to implement change models
• Development and execution of strategic training plans to prepare individuals for success during and after the change
• Assessment of organizational readiness and current state vs. future state gaps
• Play a key role in business development and expanding Avanade’s footprint at existing clients

About You:
We are looking for a Change Management Group Manager to actively participate in providing and managed quality deliverables for our Enterprise/Fortune 1000 clients:

• Management of routine workstreams within the context of a larger project, with keen emphasis on ERP and CRM Transformations
• Lead and coach OCM workstream team members
• Change impact assessment, business readiness and change strategy
• Partner and leadership assessment, engagement and alignment
• Communication strategy, key planning and preparation
• Training strategy with planned and focused content
• Change adoption measures and measurement program
• Engage in collaborative and constructive client dialogue to evaluate progress against program objectives
• Maintain effective and trusting working client relationships to facilitate program success and expansion
• Change Management work plan generation, implementation and process management

Required / Mandatory Qualifications (please read):
Previous relevant management consulting professional services firm experience, preferably with a global management consultancy firm.

• Five+ years of experience in a client facing Change Management role with digital transformation, technical & functional project experience and prior experience with ERP/CRM Transformation
• Relevant undergraduate degree

Preferred Role Qualifications:

• Relevant graduate degree
• A relevant Advanced Degree or an MBA
• Expert in the Microsoft Office product suite

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Experience working in cross-functional and complex, highly matrixed teams
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Outstanding communication and presentation (verbal and written) skills
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Ability to be flexible, demonstrate critical thinking and work effectively in fluid, complex environments

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 California, Colorado, and Washington as set forth below and [1] information on benefits offered is here.

Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role

New York: $225,900 - $276,100

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