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About the role
Avanade is looking for a Manager/Senior Manager to join their Organisational Change Management practice. As part of Avanade’s Advisory Group, our role is to help clients develop and deliver their digital workplace strategies, addressing the organisational and employee impact. This is a non-technical role that focuses on people and organisational change, working within an exciting and dynamic technology driven consultancy.
The mission is to support our clients in understanding the organisational and people impact of their digital journey. Working with our clients we help them define change strategies to transform their working structures and processes, drive adoption and deliver the expected return on their digital workplace strategy. You will focus on the organisational, people and process side of change. Structured in your approach, you will have a strong set of people management and influencing skills and bring a dynamic and hands-on approach. You will play a key role throughout the project lifecycle, interfacing with clients, program management and technology delivery. You will bring experience and grow your capability, and actively contribute to developing the Organisational Change Management offerings.
In this role, you will
Understand the client’s business change journey and, using a structured and analytical approach, build and implement a multi-faceted Change Management Plan that will drive the positive outcomes around organisation, roles, process, collaboration and benefit realisation. A Manager/Senior Manager is responsible for:
- Working in partnership with Avanade leads, participation in the development of change solutions and scoping out change efforts that meet the unique needs of the client.
- Application of formal change architectures, models, and frameworks.
- Definition of strategic vision and management and measurement of related change journey.
- Measurement of short- and long-term business outcomes related to organisational change.
- Development of plans to drive successful adoption of the change within the organisation.
- Quantitative and qualitative analyses to implement change models.
- Distribution of timely and relevant information through a coordinated, attractive, and comprehensive communications strategy.
- Organisational design to improve efficiency and mitigate risks.
- Development and execution of strategic training plans to prepare individuals for success during and after the change.
- Assessment of organisational readiness and current state vs. future state gaps.
- Coordinate and oversee work activities and deliverables of more junior resources.
Your skills
- 6+ years of change management consulting experience from a top management consulting firm and experience working on engagements in a highly matrixed external client facing environment.
- Directly shape and lead change management on major change initiatives.
- Deliver a range of interventions required to successfully embed people change, including: personas, impact assessments, mindset and behaviour change approaches, communications plans, change networks, adoption plans, change effectiveness measurements and business readiness assessments.