Avanade is a leading digital innovator in the Microsoft ecosystem, formed as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. With over 40,000 professionals in 26 countries, we deliver innovative solutions that drive growth, efficiency, and resilience.
o    Flexible remote and in-office collaboration.
o    Access to Microsoft Learn, Avanade Academy, and annual learning allowance.
o    Clear career tracks and mentorship.
o    Competitive salary, bonuses, pension scheme, private healthcare, and generous holiday allowance.
o    Inclusive culture celebrating unique perspectives.

Summary

As a Pre-Sales Solutions Specialist for Dynamics 365 CRM, you'll be integral to our UK sales team. You'll collaborate with account teams to design and position high-value solutions for CRM challenges, turning your technical depth into clear business solutions with tangible value driven outcomes.
 

Summary  

As an ERP Finance Lead, you will be a trusted advisor to clients, leading a functional workstream through the implementation of complex Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management (F&SCM) solutions. This role provides the opportunity to work for Microsoft’s #1 partner, with a focus on innovation, leadership, and delivering high-impact solutions.
What you’ll do
This role is responsible for leading a workstream in the definition and collection of requirements through to the build and deployment of the solution in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management.
A client centric attitude and excellent interpersonal skills are required to lead and develop trusted relationships with key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead client workshops, to analyse and design Finance and supporting module solutions for the projects workstream.
• Lead a team of functional consultants.
• Define and evaluate the functional and non-functional requirements for each business process in the projects workstream.
• Transform the business requirements into application requirements to populate the requirements traceability matrix and conduct a fit/gap analysis.
• Write functional specifications and collaborate with the technical team to ensure functional requirements are understood.
• Prototype, configure and test the respective business processes.
• Document the system configuration and prepare project documentation deliverables.
• Support the key-users in user acceptance testing.
• Train key-users and/or end-users.
• Transition the solution to the support team.
• Stay updated on Microsoft’s latest innovations and contribute to internal knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Unlock the potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents as a visionary architect, transforming challenges into cutting-edge solutions. Embrace continuous learning and collaborate with global teams to shape the future of technology-driven excellence. Join us at Avanade, where creativity, innovation, and career growth thrive.

Key Responsibilities:

• Helping clients realize meaningful business growth through workplace transformation through Copilot and agents, you will work with account teams to shape, sell and coordinate the delivery of propositions that address client challenges
• Develop pragmatic, deliverable and sustainable Copilot solutions and roadmaps that allows clients to address their business needs and leverage the best value out of their Microsoft investments.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of future focused workplace and organization transformation propositions and solutions.
• Support the selling and implementation of Copilot propositions in response to market demand and digital trends.
• Assist senior team members with sales efforts including development of client proposals and pitch mechanics.
• Delivering sales presentations to clients and responding to RFPs.
• Use experience of client facing engagements to build a positive project relationship, run workshops and lead clients to success.
• Design and develop Power Platform, Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, Teams Toolkit Agents to meet client requirements.
• Lead a team of experts to work together to drive success in delivering solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams under challenging circumstances to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions using Microsoft 365 products.
• Share practices for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio and extensibility knowledge with global Avanade team members.

Summary  

In this role, you will collaborate closely with our clients to deliver comprehensive, cross-capability solutions and services. By leveraging your technical expertise, business acumen, and industry insights, you will manage the entire post-sales delivery and support process, ensuring that the right resources are deployed at the right time to achieve optimal customer outcomes. A key aspect of your role will be driving innovation in the solutions we provide, continuously seeking new ways to enhance value and deliver cutting-edge results for our customers.

Key Responsibilities

Building and maintaining strong customer relationships will be at the heart of your role. You will act as a trusted advisor to our clients, understanding their business needs and objectives, and providing tailored solutions to help them achieve their goals. Your ability to foster and nurture these relationships will be crucial in driving customer satisfaction and long-term success.

Experience collaborating closely with development and testing teams in a continuous integration methodology to successfully bring additional service components into production and ensure their ongoing commercial success, is essential.

The ideal candidate will possess a passion for technology, a drive for customer value and strategic outcomes, and demonstrable experience in a customer-facing roles.

By joining the UK Delivery Centre, you will have a fantastic opportunity to operate at the forefront of technology, with access to the best clients across the world, working on challenging and exciting services & solutions.

We are a diverse team, and we are proud of our culture that welcomes every individual. In our teams you will find talented and passionate technologists, with a humble, collaborative, and positive attitude. We promise to invest in you and help give you the platform for continuous learning and development. Come Join Us.

1. Service Delivery Management:
· Take ownership for the effective delivery of commercially successful engagements within an ITIL and DevOps services framework.
· Oversee the end-to-end delivery of services to clients, ensuring that all service level agreements (SLAs) are met or exceeded.
· Coordinate with internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery and address any issues promptly.
· Develop and implement service improvement plans to enhance service quality and efficiency.
· Manage the release management cycle, planning, resourcing, and governance to successfully release new service components through to deployment.
· Lead the continued adoption of Agile practices to create a culture of continuous integration in a client-facing environment.
· Lead the UKDC team members delivering at the customer site, ensuring effective collaboration and performance.

2. Client Success Management:
· Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, acting as their primary point of contact.
· Understand clients' business needs and objectives, and provide tailored solutions to help them achieve their goals.
· Monitor client satisfaction and proactively address any concerns or issues.
· Conduct regular Reviews with clients to review their progress and address any needs or challenges.
· Identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling additional services or products to clients.

3. Client Success Account Management:

· Manage a portfolio of UKDC client accounts, ensuring their ongoing success and satisfaction.
· Collaborate with clients to develop strategic plans that align with their business objectives.
· Provide client with regular service analysis and develop ideas for service improvements.
· Ensure effective communication with clients to manage expectations and demonstrate value.

4. Reporting and Analysis:
· Prepare and present regular reports on service delivery performance and customer satisfaction metrics.
· Analyse data to identify trends and areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions as needed.

5. Collaboration and Communication:
Collaborate with sales, marketing, and product teams to ensure a cohesive approach to customer success.
· Communicate effectively with clients and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.

6. Team Support & Collaboration
Has experience working with and guiding peers or virtual teams. Promotes a collaborative and inclusive team culture, encourages knowledge sharing, and supports team alignment across functions. Acts as a point of contact for day-to-day guidance and helps foster a positive, productive working environment.

7.Enabling Change
Supports transformation efforts and helps drive adoption of new technologies or processes with customers and internal teams. Contributes to change initiatives by sharing feedback, identifying opportunities, and helping others navigate new ways of working.