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.

Summary

Avanade is looking for an experienced Digital Identity Architect. This is predominantly a delivery-focused role with the opportunity to support on pre-sales activities. We provide a unique opportunity to help our clients solve complex and cutting-edge Digital Identity business challenges across the business to employees, business to business, and business to customer spaces. As we move to Zero Trust Network Access and Service Edge capability knowledge in this area is key.

About the Role:

In a client-facing role, you will be engaged on some of the most exciting, complex, and leading-edge projects. You will play an active role in transforming our client’s Digital Identity solutions and operations through the design and implementation of Digital Identity technologies, with a focus on the Microsoft Digital Identity capabilities, as well as leading market vendors (e.g., Saviynt & One Identity).

As ICOE Security member you will be in a unique position within the business, where you are able to manage your time across both pre-sales, client delivery and able to make a change to the entire Avanade organization through your offering development and thought leadership. We actively encourage innovation, training and development to ensure you are always at the cutting edge of Identity and SASE Capabilities. What makes this role so unique is that you are measured on your utilization of up to 70% of your time, as opposed to being a traditional “chargeable” or “billable” resource. Instead, you need only to support exciting client opportunities to achieve the goals of the role. The remaining 30% of your time is spent on asset and offering development and training, making this role truly flexible and attractive to those wanting a cutting-edge Cyber Security role, which has a global impact on Avanade and its clients, whilst working flexibly and remotely.

This is a fantastic opportunity to establish yourself as a leader in the Digital Identity space. You will learn how to deliver and solution large and global Digital Identity solutions, as well as gain the knowledge and experience of Microsoft’s broader Security, Compliance, and Identity (SCI) ecosystem, which is already recognized as a world-leading integrated security platform, of which Identity is at the very center.

Location: London - (full time on site)

Must be Eligible for Security Clearance

Unlock the potential of Microsoft 365 as a support engineer, ensuring our customers M365 deployments are delivering as expected. Join us at Avanade, where creativity, innovation, and career growth thrive.

Come join us:

As a member of the UKI Delivery Centre Team you will work on M365 projects for our clients. Do you Enjoy developing long lasting working relationships with clients in some of the biggest household names in the world, across a variety of industries? Dream of delivering innovative, tailored modern IT solutions that truly make a difference?  Work with a team where your individual skills and experience are recognized and valued? Embrace your innate passion for technology, where you will be encouraged to continuous learn and develop your skills further. Join us as we shape the future with technology-driven excellence! Together we do what matters.

What you’ll do:

• Delivering M365 L1/L2 support for our customers.
• Take ownership of tickets, delivering support to SLA’s.
• Liaise closely with customers, keeping them updated with progress.
• Work closely with your Team and other Delivery Centre staff.
• Maintain strong working knowledge of the M365 suite, and all required tools and products.
• Work at a great customer location

We’re hiring a Solution Architect to join our Data & AI Practice, helping enterprise clients bring their vision to life through impactful, responsible, and scalable Data & AI solutions.
This is a senior, client-facing leadership role - perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical innovation, business strategy, and delivery excellence. From shaping deals and crafting solution roadmaps to mentoring delivery teams and leading Agentic AI and data platform engagements, this role is about creating real impact — at scale.

As an Architect within our Data & AI practice, you'll deliver Agentic AI and data platform solutions and services that make transformative change and deliver high value business outcomes. You'll engage in solutioning through gaining deep insight into our customers challenges and needs, taking responsibility for the technical design and solution for large scale analytical solutions. You’ll provide guidance and technical leadership to teams of data & AI engineers whilst building relationships with our clients to become a trusted advisor.

Key Responsibilities:

• As an architect assigned to one or more client projects, you will work closely with delivery teams and client stakeholders to provide technical leadership, shape deals and propositions, drive architectural decisions, create plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts.

• Play a key role in Avanade's sales process by creating solutions that innovate, inspire and are win new business. You’ll have responsibility for shaping the high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with other subject matter experts in the business.

• As a senior member of the Avanade technical community, you will provide coaching and mentoring to motivate and inspire more junior colleagues from within your team and across the organization.

• Have the ability to translate complex technical concepts and solutions and present them in easy to understand language and value based outcomes, to senior business stakeholders, technology leaders and internal sales teams.

• Engage in early conversations with clients, partners and sales teams to support origination and deal qualification, requirements capture and solutioning, recommending best practices and approaches to achieve optimal outcomes, building strong relationship with clients to become the trusted advisor. Prepare and represent the solution in Deal Reviews and play an active role in client presentations, and negotiations with key client buyers.

• Work collaboratively with the wider Data & AI leadership to shape our current and future offerings, accelerators, and background IP to support GTM activities.

• Drive the evolution of best practices and methodologies for AI development, including data management, model training, fine-tuning, and deployment.

• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI and data technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into our solutions.