Country:United KingdomCities:LondonArea of expertise:Experience DesignJob DescriptionWhat is Avanade X?Over Avanade's 20+ years, we've delivered the most intelligent, engaging, industry leading, award-winning experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. As technology and human expectations evolve, we see incredible opportunities for customers, products, and workplaces—where imagination is the only limit.Avanade X is our way to bring unconventional thinking, exceptional creativity, and our unparalleled engineering heritage to think big and make it real. Our vision of the future goes far beyond concepts to enable and deliver the impact our clients, their people, customers, and communities need.We support each other with great work to push boundaries, connect technology with what matters to people first, and grow with our clients. If you feel this is a great fit for your path, we’d love to talk.About the roleThe Avanade Chief Creative Officer leads Avanade’s global Creative Practice. You set the vision and strategy for Avanade X’s creative team, galvanize your people around it and make everyone at Avanade a champion for it. You elevate Avanade and our brand, are a magnet for clients, and thrive being in-market with our clients solving their most critical business challenges. You lead your team by example, showing them how to help clients expand their vision to see the best version of themselves and then giving our clients the confidence that with Avanade X they can become it. You are also a magnet for creative talent, responsible for building Avanade X’s reputation as a design leader in the global agency space. Your team and their work win awards for our clients, and the hearts and minds of users around the world. You have a deep understanding of how creativity connects to business problems and drives profitable growth, and proven experience operating at the board level to bring creative ideas to life and clearly express the business value of our work. You are accountable for the quality, strategy, and integrity of all creative deliverables for Avanade.Avanade’s purpose is to make a genuine human impact, for our clients and their customers, and our employees. As Avanade’s Chief Creative Officer you are a custodian of this purpose, ensuring that, as a firm, we keep our promise to ourselves and the people we serve.You are a force of nature. A brilliant storyteller, empathetic but firm, you challenge your team to raise the bar at every step. You are as adept at working with our creative leaders and teams as you are with our clients and our internal teams, especially Marketing. You ensure that our most creative thinking is embedded across Avanade’s business groups (Technology, Advisory, and Avanade X) and integrated go-to-market function. You are fluent in CMO/CDO/CCO but understand how to work seamlessly with technology leaders.Our differences are part of what makes the difference with our clients and in our work, and you are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive team that is world class. You live our core values and model a team-first attitude that brings our employee value proposition to life for your team and set the tone for community development. You are accountable for creating and evolving a global creative methodology and design ops and work across Avanade to maximize impact. To be successful, you will need to leverage direct and influence relationships across Avanade, and our clients, to bring your vision to life.Candidates for this role are executive creative and business leaders with experience, and success, developing strategy, building brands, launching products, and being the leader that creatives of every discipline and background want to follow. ResponsibilitiesPractice Leadership & GrowthDefine, align, implement, and evolve global creative practice strategy, vision, and plans to ensure that Avanade has market leading capabilities in our chosen markets.Define global creative practice priorities for Area and Region Practice Leaders ensuring global business group (BG) and enterprise-wide Avanade priorities are incorporated.Manage global creative practice team in line with agreed plans and KPIs.Build strong relationships with global Avanade, Microsoft, and Accenture Song leaders to drive growth of the practice.Cultivate innovation.Sales, solutioning and deliveryPro-actively work with the Avanade Sales organization to identify, qualify, and prioritize strategic/high value opportunities.Own and extend client relationships helping Avanade to broaden its client network and deliver an exceptional client experience.Create and evolve practice assets and solutionsDefine and implement global asset and solution plan for the practice. Maintain, communicate, drive usage of, manage the full lifecycle of the practice assets and solutions inventory.Enable areas and regions with the right assets and skills to sell and deliver the practice assets and solutions inventory.Understand practice-related trends globally and develop and evolve practice assets and solutions to continue to meet global client objectives.Harvest ideas and assets from the areas and regions, deploy globally.Attract, Develop, and Retain Practice TalentDefine and manage implementation of a holistic global practice talent plan to meet client demand, the I&D agenda, and ensure a robust, future ready workforce.Define and manage implementation of global practice employee engagement and well-being plan.Determine skill requirements needed across the global practice.Own, orchestrate, and evolve practice career development pathways to help practitioners broaden their skills and experience, undertake new roles and secure promotion. Develop leaders of the future and own succession planning for various leadership roles.Cultivate a collaborative and cooperative work environment and ways of working among team members operating in a matrixed structure.Within the Business Group, develop leaders of the future and own succession planning for various leadership rolesManage Deployment of Practice PractitionersDefine and align global practice workforce needs and plans to ensure the right capabilities and capacity to deliver the practice in all areas/regions.Own global workforce plan and practice market utilization and chargeability targets ensuring these are met or exceeded at the global level (roll up).Who you are20+ years of relevant creative leadership experience delivering exceptional, award-wining results for your firm or clients15+ years managing people and teams, with a significant amount of time leading an international practice or agencyRecognized as a prominent visionary in the digital spaceClient focused with a track record of winningSenior executive leader, exceptional communication skills and client presenceAdept at building organizational culture, driving employee engagement, strengthening inclusion and diversity, reducing attrition, attracting top talent, motivating, and growing a global teamAbility to collaborate effectively in a highly matrixed company to deliver results globally