Job Description

Introduction:
The GTM Portfolio Team is responsible for shaping what we take to market, enabling us to activate Microsoft, win new clients, and grow our mid market presence. As part of the Growth Office, the team collaborates with Client Solutions, Sales, Marketing, Delivery, and Global Practices to meet client needs and drive success.

About the role:
As a strategic, collaborative, delivery minded leader, you will organize and manage Portfolio priorities and workstreams, driving alignment within the Portfolio team and across Avanade through our governance process.

Your work ensures we plan and execute effectively by keeping teams connected, ensuring quarterly deliverables are on time and delivered with high quality. You are a skilled collaborator and communicator who works confidently across Avanade to coordinate a governance process that supports clarity, action, and measurable results. You are highly organized, proactive, and able to self-direct in a dynamic, agile, fast paced environment.

What you will do:
You will coordinate workstreams across the Portfolio and partner with the Portfolio Lead to establish governance, set priorities, organize work, and maintain alignment. To maximize the effectiveness of our Portfolio efforts, you will:

• Capture, prioritize, and manage the Portfolio’s most important initiatives

• Establish governance processes and ways of working

• Build a deep understanding of our business, clients, and delivery model

• Drive alignment across the Portfolio team, ensuring everyone is informed, connected, and focused

• Organize and manage cross workstream plans, team meetings, rituals, team sites/workspaces, and team communications

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Portfolio Lead—providing feedback, guidance, and acting as a proxy when needed

• Lead preparation, facilitation, and follow up for all Portfolio led governance meetings and forums

• Partner with executive stakeholders to drive strategic alignment

• Oversee large projects and initiatives, connecting stakeholders to enable effective decision making

• Fill operational gaps and lead special projects or cross functional efforts as needed

Qualification

Skills and experience:

• BA in business, computer science, or a related field
• 10+ years in delivery management
• 5+ years leading complex, large scale programs
• Exceptional communication skills
• Knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem preferred

About you:
Characteristics that support success in this role

• Consultative, collaborative, and relationship oriented
• Able to think systematically and logically, with strong problem solving skills
• Resilient, adaptable, and flexible
• Intellectually curious and passionate about technology
• Skilled storyteller and engaging content creator
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to enable effective collaboration and negotiation

Enjoy your career
Some 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.

A great place to work
As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on
• Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by
• Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by
• Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one

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

• https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/seattle-childrens-digital-transformation

• https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/seattle-goodwill-dynamics-365

• https://youtu.be/5A41tfinqEw

• https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/mec-dynamics-365

• https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/unicef-netherlands

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

• Avanade Insights – exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation
• Inside Avanade – explore what life is like working at Avanade

For Canada pay transparency:
Compensation at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are 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, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.

Information on benefits is here.

British Columbia / Ontario – $120,000- 140,000