Avanade is looking for a Digital Analytics Lead in Sydney, Australia.  If you meet the requirements below, you will be eligible to apply via Digital Marketing Community.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage and grow this part of the business in Australia including the development of new and existing go to market analytics propositions.
• Recognize the strategy and technology vision for digital analytics solution offerings and developing strategic alliances with industry partners to fulfill that capability, supporting the analytics initiatives with our clients across Avanade’s geographies.
• Stimulate awareness and prescriptive sales and technical guidance on delivering innovative and scalable digital analytics solutions for the broader market.
• Support the relationship with key partners like Microsoft and ensuring joint pipeline development, skills development and promoting market successes.
• Cooperate with managed services team, to develop analytics as a service proposition.
• Collaborate with digital agenda, helping to embed analytics into current propositions including digital customer, digital marketing and digital workplace.
• Create an advanced analytics team, through both recruitment and training of existing data and analytics team members, based on Microsofts growing analytical capability in Hadoop and R.
• Stay abreast of market trends, competitor offerings, Microsoft products and solutions, accenture initiatives, Avanade field engagements, and thought leadership to identify and quantify opportunities for Avanade.
• Produce business plans to activate opportunities and offerings including getting investment to support initiatives.
• Manage efforts to create differentiated value messages for solutions and create corresponding collateral including solution messaging, sales tools, white papers, and supporting marketing collateral.
• Promote sales opportunities within both Avanade and Accenture to shape and close business.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years of experience with a proven record of successfully conceptualizing, designing, and delivery various complex custom build solutions in production in various roles or capacities on the delivery and sales team.
• Effective experience with cloud and related development technologies.
• Proficient experience in analysis tools such as (SAS and R).
• Deep working knowledge of a consulting and client facing roles.
• Solid understanding of building and selling analytics propositions.
• Proven track record in solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches, the use of predictive, modeling, forecasting and sophisticated statistical analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in relational databases including Microsoft SQL.
• Familiarity with developing analytics as a service proposition and building advanced analytics teams.
• Strong understanding of advanced analytics end to end architecture (breadth rather than depth).
• High ability in designing and implementing advanced analytics solutions (Architecture experience).
• Wide business understanding as well as technical understanding.

About Avanade:

Avanade acquired Infusion, a global software engineering, design and digital strategy firm that delivers digital business transformation for the enterprise. The acquisition expands Avanade’s capabilities to deliver digital transformation services and reinforces its position as the leading digital innovator in the Microsoft ecosystem.