Avanade is looking to expand its fast growing European (aka EALA) Data & Analytics practice to meet this growing market demand and is seeking an Advanced Analytics Director to:

Roles and Responsibilities:

– Lead and grow this part of the business in EALA, including the development of new and existing ‘go to market’ analytics propositions;
– Work with Avanade’s Managed Services team, to develop ‘analytics as a service’ propositions;
– Work with Avanade’s Digital agenda, helping to embed analytics in to current propositions including Digital Customer, Digital Marketing and Digital Workplace;

– Build an advanced analytics team, through both recruitment and training of existing Data & Analytics team members, based on Microsoft’s growing analytical capability in Hadoop and R; and
– Advocate and educate – internally and externally – the use of Microsoft analytical technologies.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

– Proficiency in solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches, the use of predictive modelling, forecasting and sophisticated statistical analysis;
– Familiarity with relational databases, including Microsoft SQL;
– Minimum 10 years’ experience:
– of analysis tools such as SAS and R;
– in a consulting / client facing roles;
– of building and selling analytics propositions;
– Experience in develop ‘analytics as a service’ propositions; and
– Experience in building advanced analytics teams