Regional Practice Lead - ERP

The Technology, Avanade X, and Advisory Business Groups (BG) are Avanade's growth engines responsible for developing market-relevant capabilities and solutions to help clients resolve critical business and technology issues. Through practices they provide sales, solutioning, and delivery support to Client Groups and Accounts to help us win and sustain long-lasting relationships with our clients. In addition to direct relationships with clients, each Business Group works closely with Avanade's most significant partners

• Microsoft and Accenture, as well as other alliances - to drive the growth of the business group and the Practices therein.Education and/or experience in the relevant field/business
  Relevant experience designing, selling, and leading client engagements with a Microsoft component
  Significant competency and skills in the practice
  Experience growing and leading a profitable technology consulting practice in a region
  Deep experience in understanding client needs and selling and delivering assets and solutions
  Experience shaping and developing people skills/capabilities of a large team

This role is accountable for ensuring the practice provides sales, solutioning, and delivery support to client accounts and Integrated Go-to-Market Lines of Business and Plays.
This role is accountable for ensuring the regional practice has the right capabilities, skillsets, and certifications required to deliver client work both today and tomorrow. It is accountable to create a community with common objectives, build culture, and ensures the employee value proposition is brought to life regionally
Practice Leadership and Growth- Define, align (with global/area BG plans, IGTM, and other BGs), implement, and evolve region practice strategy to ensure the region has market-leading capabilities. Region strategy and planning drives area and global strategy and planning.
Sales, Solutioning, and Delivery

• Pro-actively work with Sales, Client Accounts, and Line of Business/Play Leads to identify, qualify, and prioritize opportunities that will drive additional sales and revenues
  Create and Evolve Practice Assets and Solutions

• Deploy practice assets and solutions localizing them for use in specific Client Groups and accounts
  Attract, Develop, and Retain Practice Talent

• Define and manage the implementation of a holistic regional practice talent plan, inclusive of creating an integrated talent plan with the ATC as appropriate, that includes what talent we need and where (i.e., build, buy, borrow, keep), to meet client demand, I&D agenda, and ensure a robust, future-ready workforce
  Manage Deployment of Practice Practitioners

• Define and align with the region practice workforce needs and plans with global, area, and Workforce Planning and Execution leaders

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To learn more about the types of projects our ERP team works on check out these case studies:

How Norma Group transformed automotive supplier processes by harvesting the power of cloud-based ERP
MSDW Podcast: What it means to be a modern manufacturer

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Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at AvanadeSome of the best things about working at Avanade

Opportunity to work for Microsoft's Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)
Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth
Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits here.The Regional Practice Lead

• ERP leads the ERP Practice for the region. This practice is in Business Applications (Solution Area) in the Technology Business Group. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) practice solutions aim to unify global financials and operations to empower people and clients to make fast, informed decisions.

The Region Practice Lead

• ERP is a pivotal role that blends market, sales and solutioning, people, and delivery excellence. This role owns the strategy that ensures the region Practice has the right capabilities to seize market advantage and is responsible for driving business growth, supporting sales development and conversion, solutioning, and delivery, and practice strategy, in addition to people, capability, and community development.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) in their practice
  Ability to build organizational culture, drive employee engagement, strengthen inclusion and diversity, reduce attrition, and attract top talent
  Market-focused with a growth mindset
  Ability to collaborate effectively in a highly matrixed company to deliver results within a region