Manager, Security Advisory - West Region

Pair your adaptable, collaborative, curious mindset with your tech skills to help client digitally transform their ways of working. Better experience for air travelers? Data to help a non-profit better serve kids with needs? An Advisory role at Avanade offers you a purposeful career. Know your clients' needs inside out, work with them beginning to end, enjoy achievements together - and repeat.

Characteristics that can spell success for this role:

• Consultative, analytical, interpersonal

• Resilient, ambitious, enterprising

• Intellectually curious and passionate about tech

• Storyteller and engaging content creator

Sales and Pre-sales Support:

• Lead meetings with clients to discuss and propose Security Advisory solutions and projects

• Collaborate with clients to develop project scope and pricing estimates

• Lead and collaborate in developing proposals, SOWs, letters of engagement, and RFP responses

• Develop and maintain client relationships, ensure client satisfaction, expand existing Security Advisory engagements

• As necessary, engage with partners to bring the best of the Avanade, Accenture, and Microsoft business group to potentially solve our clients' toughest challenges

Project Delivery and Execution

• Support, manage and/or lead advisory projects and manage the execution and day-to-day activities

• Support, manage, and or lead project teams and consultants to deliver on client expectations

• Develop client deliverables and work products and prepare and present oral and written reports

• Assess Security processes, documentation, workflows, and technologies to identify gaps, recommendations, and roadmaps

• Map IT and security control environments to regulatory and security standards

• Develop security strategies to help clients improve their security program, operating model, and maturity

• Assess business, IT, and security risks, identify remediations, and develop metrics and reporting

• Create executive level presentation and reporting/status updates

• Develop high level security strategies, architectures, and designs for security technology capabilities

• Travel as dictated by business needs, often 20% to 50% travel throughout North America supporting Clients

Firm Building

• Participate in firm initiatives that support the overall firm strategy

• Participate in Security Advisory team initiatives to support the regional strategy

• Support the development of new Security Advisory solutions and services

• Support the development of new go to market strategies to bring Security Advisory services and offerings our clients

To Learn more about the types of projects our Advisory team works on check out this case studies:

• Avanade Advisory | Avanade

• Bain & Company KM Platform Case Study | Avanade US

• RWE AG Client Story | Avanade US

• Rathbones WX Case Study | Avanade US

Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

• Avanade Insights Blog | Avanade

• Inside Avanade Blog | Avanade

Some of the best things about working at Avanade:

• Top-shelf clients

• Our clients accelerate value by being bold, imaginative-and fast. Look at who we work with - you've probably heard of them and just might want to work with them, too

• Next-level work

• Utilize emerging tech and become adept at solving business critical issues, acquire industry expertise, and a deep understanding of the technologies and capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem

• Flexible work schedule

• We provide employees with a flexible work schedule that includes flexible start and end times as well as the ability to work remotely

Find out more about some of our benefits here. The Avanade Security Advisory team provides strategic security advice to help our clients protect their most valuable digital, intellectual, and human assets while accelerating the time to realization from investments made to deliver broader business value. We deliver our broad range of security advisory services through an integrated and highly collaborative approach between our clients and practitioners. You'll be responsible for collaborating with the Security Advisory leadership and regional management team, within a highly matrixed organization, with a significant focus in achieving both corporate and practice objectives, including exemplary delivery, sales targets, and revenue goals. You will regularly provide strategic advice to senior clients while providing strategic, operational, and tactical recommendations in the form of work products. This role requires knowledge and experience in delivering with a management consultant mindset first, closely followed by that of an information security and risk management practitioner across disciplines such as Enterprise Security Strategy, Identity and Access Management, Data Protection and Governance, Portfolio Optimization and Rationalization, and GenAI Readiness.

• 8+ years of professional experience in Management Consulting, IT Security Consulting or Industry Security positions (Cyber Security Manager, IT Security Manager, Security Auditor, Security Analysts) from top management consulting, IT professional services firm, or Fortune 500 company

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration, or a Humanities related discipline. Masters/MBA preferred

• Certified candidates (or willingness to obtain) related Security Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, CRISC, CISM, CIPP or CIPT • Microsoft Security SC-900, AZ-900, or AI-900