(Security Clearance Required)

As an M365 Consultant/Senior Consultant, you will help transform clients’ cybersecurity posture by designing and implementing advanced Microsoft Threat Protection technologies. You will work directly with clients in a consulting capacity, supporting medium to large enterprise environments and contributing to robust Cyber Defence strategies across endpoints, identities, cloud, and collaboration platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement AV/EDR solutions (e.g., Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) to detect and respond to cyber threats across major operating systems.

• Protect email, messaging, and collaboration platforms from phishing, spear phishing, BEC, and identity-related attacks.

• Develop and maintain cyber defence use cases, correlation rules, and attack chain detections across disparate systems.

• Design, implement, and integrate SIEM solutions—particularly Microsoft Sentinel—into Security Operations.

• Perform threat hunting across endpoints, identities, networking, cloud, and collaboration platforms in the Microsoft ecosystem.

• Handle L2-level incidents leveraging Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender tools.

• Support incident response, triage, threat modelling, and vulnerability remediation within Azure-hosted environments.

• Create, run, and troubleshoot Azure Logic Apps, playbooks, and Sentinel automation components.

• Collaborate with business and security stakeholders to define and enhance security standards and improve security posture.

Job Description

ERP Functional Architect – D365 Supply Chain (with optional Manufacturing experience) Location: Global / Virtual Talent Community: Business Applications – ERP Role Family: Solution Architecture Level: Manager

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🌟 About the Role

As an ERP Functional Architect specializing in Supply Chain within Avanade’s Global Integrated Centre of Excellence (ICOE), you will be responsible for designing, shaping, and delivering intelligent, scalable supply chain solutions on Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

You will partner with global clients to transform their supply chain operations, enhance visibility, optimize planning, and modernize processes using the latest capabilities—including AI-powered forecasting, automation, and analytics.

Manufacturing experience is not required, but it is considered a strong advantage and will open opportunities to support broader transformation programs.

This is a high-impact architecture role ideal for someone who wants to influence global ERP standards and deliver next-generation supply chain capabilities at scale.

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🔑 Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design

· Lead the functional architecture of D365 F&SCM across global ERP programs.

· Develop solution blueprints, process maps, fit-gap analysis, and cross-functional integration designs.

· Embed AI capabilities such as demand forecasting, stocking optimization, anomaly detection, and intelligent replenishment into solution designs.

· (Optional) Contribute to Manufacturing solution design if you have experience in areas such as Production Control, Shop Floor, Lean/Process manufacturing, or costing.

· Participate in Avanade Communities of Practice (COP).

Client Engagement & Advisory

· Act as a trusted advisor to Supply Chain, Operations, and Logistics leaders—guiding future-state design and best-practice adoption.

· Lead workshops across supply chain functions (procurement, inventory, warehousing, logistics, planning, product management).

· Support clients adopting modern capabilities including Copilot, AI-augmented planning, and predictive operational insights.

· Communicate complex functional requirements and solution designs in clear, business-oriented language.

Delivery Quality & Governance

· Ensure functional governance, solution integrity, and design quality across global delivery teams following Method One standards.

· Support estimation, solution assurance, and design reviews throughout implementation.

· Identify and manage functional risks, dependencies, and integration points across supply chain workstreams.

Thought Leadership & ICOE Contribution

· Contribute to global delivery standards, templates, accelerators, and solution patterns for supply chain transformation.

· Support regions in scaling AI-enabled supply chain capabilities, ensuring consistent adoption and quality.

· Mentor functional consultants and contribute to capability-building within the global ERP community.

Job Description

Delivery Lead – Global Integrated Centre of Excellence (ICOE) Location: Global / Virtual Talent Community: Solutioning & Delivery Role Family: Delivery Management Level: Senior Manager / Director (based on experience)

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🌟 About the Role

As a Delivery Lead in Avanade’s Global Integrated Center of Excellence (ICOE), you will play a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery of complex, multi-tower transformation programs powered by ERP modernization and next-generation AI capabilities.

In this role, you will anchor Avanade’s delivery standards within major client programmes, collaborating directly with global subject matter experts and solution architects to strengthen our capacity to deliver with confidence across regions and industries. By combining delivery excellence with AI-augmented ways of working, you will ensure our clients benefit from the full breadth of Avanade’s intelligence-driven delivery frameworks, assets, and accelerators.

This role leads ERP-driven business transformation worldwide, combining delivery leadership, ERP expertise, and AI innovation.

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🔑 Key Responsibilities

Delivery Leadership & Governance

· Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-tower ERP transformation programs (e.g., Dynamics 365 F&SCM / CE; migration; multi-phase rollouts) —often integrated with AI-powered modernization, process intelligence, and predictive insights.

· Champion Avanade’s Method One and global delivery standards while incorporating AI-enhanced delivery accelerators and automation tools to improve quality, velocity, and predictability.

· Serve as contract delivery lead for large-scale engagements, ensuring scope, quality, performance, and contractual commitments are met consistently.

· Govern risk, quality, and issue management using both traditional and AI-assisted delivery insights and dashboards.

Client Engagement

· Act as the primary delivery partner for client stakeholders, advising on both ERP transformation and AI-driven opportunities that enhance speed, intelligence, and business value.

· Translate client objectives into actionable implementation strategies—combining ERP, cloud, data, and AI capabilities into cohesive, outcome-based delivery plans.

· Influence and guide client executives on leveraging AI to modernise operations, enable new business scenarios, and strengthen long-term transformation outcomes by identifying and surfacing opportunities for optimisation, extension, and innovation within active engagements.

Program & Portfolio Oversight

· Lead large multidisciplinary teams (onshore/offshore), fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

· Oversee programme planning, estimation, mobilisation, financial governance, performance tracking, and steering communication across all workstreams within global engagements.

· Ensure transparent reporting, steering governance, and executive communication across Avanade and client stakeholders.

· Drive continuous improvement by embedding AI insights, predictive resourcing, and delivery analytics.

Solution Quality & Innovation

· Review solution architecture and delivery approach, offering actionable insights and recommendations.

· Support proposal shaping, solution assurance, and delivery readiness for new opportunities.

· Contribute to global best practices for ERP delivery, working closely with the ICOE leadership, Delivery Leads community, and SMEs

· Contribute to ICOE-led global best practices, shaping delivery guidelines and playbooks that embed AI capabilities into ERP and cross-platform delivery.

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Summary

Avanade is recruiting Business Development Managers who are deal hunters, deal makers, originators and self-starters who can develop and win new business in a complex consulting environment with sophisticated technology solutions.

In support of our continued growth journey, we need to capitalise on our capabilities and have identified the need to further expand our sales team as a priority area for growth. Our aim is to grow our net new customer acquisition and core business through increased sales focus, driving the growth strategy and delivering sales and revenue targets. As a Sales Manager, you will be instrumental in ensuring we achieve these objectives.

Within the Avanade Energy & Utilities business unit the Business Development Managers will be allocated sales territories in the following industry sub-sectors within the United Kingdom:

• Exploration and Production (Oil & Gas)
• Energy
• Energy Procurement & Construction (EPC) including renewables
• Refining & Processing (Bitumen, Lubes, Fuels & LNG)
• Storage (Gas & Carbon Capture)
• Fuels Retail
• Capital Project Construction (including storage and generation of energy including gas, wind, solar, hydro, biofuels and batteries)
• Chemicals (Production, Oil Refining, R&D, Storage & Transportation)
• Commodities & Energy Trading (selling derivatives of energy, industrial metals, agricultural products, and precious metals, exchanges, transport and ports)
• Mining and Mining Services
• Industry bodies & Regulators (IOGP, NESO, Energy Traders Europe, ect)
• Sustainability (NetZero, emission reporting & regulation)

Candidates with experience in selling technology and consultancy services to mid-market (Revenues $500m to $5bn) with Industry experience would be preferred along with experience selling digital business solutions on the Microsoft platform.

This is an important role with wide-ranging and often complex responsibilities, which call for a depth and breadth of business knowledge beyond the business development discipline. You will be capable of developing long-lasting customer relationships at a senior level and gaining referrals with new accounts. As a Sales Manager, you will have a deep understanding of the needs of the various sales channels and will leverage your experience to maximise return and drive value.

You will be responsible for working in our direct channel (working with Microsoft and direct to market) and have a demonstrable and proven track record in new business experience, in the acquisition of white space accounts for the industry. With previous, solid consulting services sales experience and a flair for closing deals, you will thrive working with colleagues in a wider team using innovation and exciting customers with your enthusiasm. Your strong connections and your tenacity to be an assertive partner, along with your background in high-value solutions across the full Microsoft stack services (from advisory services to system integration, to managed services) will attest to your credibility with senior partners and clients.

You will have the opportunity to be able to support, shape and grow our energy business within a global business; one that is also the Microsoft® #1 Partner globally.

Day to day, you will:

• Identify and engage with new clients to expand our client portfolio.
• Identify new sales opportunities across key channels to increase sales volume.
• Assist management in devising sales plans and strategies.
• Sell a portfolio of Avanade and/or third-party software products directly to end-user organizations.
• Specialise in the sale of one or more key technologies in the Microsoft stack including Applications, Cloud Services, Modern Workplace, Data, AI and Security.
• Generate sales and drive revenue, typically in low-to-medium risk and return sales activities.
• Lead customer relationships for new accounts.
• Prospect, acquire, develop and expand business leads.
• Support the wider Account Leadership team when required and Leadership on specific opportunities.
• Achieve short- and long-term sales growth by increasing cross-selling activities within existing and new accounts.
• Be accountable for an individual sales target.
• Be accountable and have solid experience managing the full sales life cycle from the origination of opportunities through to contracting and closure.