We are looking for a Strategic Digital Transformation Advisor who has worked with organsations who have a core business in areas of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or Food and Beverage (F&B)
The focus of our Digital Advisor roles is to Dream, Design & Deliver Digital Transformation, bringing innovative ideas, leveraging the Microsoft Platforms and showcasing the unique role that Microsoft can play.
Our Digital Advisors know their customer’s business, the markets in which they operate, and how Microsoft can help them drive their digital transformation. The broad scope of responsibility of this role requires a solid understanding of both business and technology strategy, change management, a principled approach to broad digital transformational challenges and opportunities.
They also share a common set of characteristics including strong leadership and people skills, with deep experience setting out innovation and customer value initiatives.
We would describe the digistal advisor in the following terms:
- Thought leader with significant experience working with C-level and Business Decision Makers
- Executive-level, exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills
- Ability to generate trust, build alliances, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of customers situational awareness to adapt and solve challenges from a business and technology perspective. Broad understanding of technology, including current and emerging digital solutions. Experience managing technology-enabled business change.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic operational execution and delivery, including the coordination of relevant resources. Empathy, curiosity, and desire to constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results. Consistent record of delivering business value by bringing the benefits of technology to transform business. Ability to conceptualize, launch and plan the delivery of digital-enabled business change projects.
- Passion for technology, business, market trends and, specifically, the customer. Experience implementing key Microsoft or related technologies, with a preference for depth in Cloud and IoT.
- Ability to advocate for Microsoft’s vision and value proposition, and diverse offerings, by conceptualizing, planning and leading implementation/adoption of Microsoft technologies. Recognized innovator with strong storytelling abilities
- Evidence of previous prgrams inspiring growth mindset for teams and customers, and influencing professional and industry networks
Digital Advisory Services
- Influence the mindset of customers and account teams by challenging the status quo and bringing innovative ideas that showcase Microsoft’s unique value proposition to our customers’ businesses. Instigate the Digital Tranformation program of change with customers to build their digital business, resulting in commitment from customers to proceed with the plan. Demonstrate how the vision becomes a reality when all relevant Microsoft resources and technologies are brought to bear. Design the DT program of change and its three elements – digital culture, digital platform, and digital approach.
Change Leadership and Adoption
- Bring their expertise, as well as the full potential of Microsoft to reach the customer’s digital aspirations. Provides experience and leadership capabilities to ensure a proper digital transformation governance model to lead the change, ensure business value is created, deliverables are met, and a DT program of change is creating continuous innovation capability within the customer, leading to ongoing commitment and consumption of our cloud services.
Thought Leadership
- Establish themselves in the marketplace and internally as a thought leader and trusted advisor to executives and account teams. Instigate shift from deal-by-deal approach, towards initiation of a DT program of change, where Microsoft, our partners and customers jointly pursue continuous business innovation to evolve market perception of Microsoft as a digital partner of choice.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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