1,962,532open jobs
115,951companies
246,571added this week
Browse all
Salary
≈ $37k – $106k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Tokyo)
Seniority
Staff
Employment
Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026. Avanade scores B on the Alion truth index.

Overview
Company
Impact
Profile match
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Avanade is a global professional services and IT consulting firm specializing in digital transformation, cloud services, and enterprise technology solutions exclusively across the Microsoft ecosystem. Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, the company delivers comprehensive advisory, engineering, and managed services spanning Azure cloud migration, generative artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer engagement via Dynamics 365, modern workplace transformation, and cybersecurity. Serving large enterprises, Fortune 500 corporations, and complex public-sector organizations worldwide, the firm combines deep technical specialization with human-centric business strategy to help clients modernize IT architectures, scale operational resilience, and maximize value from their Microsoft technology investments.

SUMMARY

The senior operational transformation lead for Avanade Next. Focuses on the core processes that run an organisation every day and helps clients move beyond incremental automation to redesigned work, measurable productivity and sustainable operating performance.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Operations Leadership & Market Presence

  • Own the Complex Process Transformation domain across APAC.
  • Lead major productivity and operating performance agendas across back-office and core operational processes.
  • Develop a practical market voice on AI-enabled productivity, controls and redesigned work, carried with clients and into the Microsoft field.

Executive Advisory & Business Growth

  • Advise Boards, COOs, CFOs and operations leaders on cost-to-serve, capacity, quality, speed and resilience.
  • Originate and shape mandates where productivity and operational performance are the primary agenda.
  • Partner with Industry Leads, Account Teams and Microsoft account teams to convert process opportunities into signed work, including co-sell where Azure AI and Copilot investment is already in flight.

Transformation Leadership

  • Take clients from process diagnosis to a redesigned, agent-enabled operating model with a working prototype.
  • Design process architectures across finance, procurement, supply chain, claims, underwriting, order-to-cash and shared services.
  • Partner with Value Architects and FDEs to prove the value pool and demonstrate the process can run.

Capability & Practice Development

  • Build process transformation capability through hiring, mentoring and leadership.
  • Contribute process diagnostics, operating patterns and reusable assets to the APAC library.
  • Partner with Customer Experience & Channels where mandates span front-office and back-office operations.

KEY MEASURES

  • Domain method and diagnostics published and in use within the first two quarters.
  • 3 to 5 active mandates with a process transformation workstream.
  • Redesigned processes progressing to production and sustaining benefits after go-live.
  • Direct contribution to qualified pipeline and signed transformation revenue.
  • Value pools verified by Value Architects after deployment.

.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • 10+ years in process transformation, operations consulting or operational leadership with implementation experience.
  • Deep command of process diagnosis, value pools, controls and operational economics.
  • Practical understanding of agentic systems and what they change about process design.
  • Experience across more than one core process domain such as finance, procurement, supply chain, claims, underwriting or shared services.
  • CXO credibility with COOs, CFOs and operations leaders.
  • Experience reinventing processes inside regulated or audited operating environments, where controls and evidence matter as much as efficiency.

.

Free account
Stop reading job ads. Get the ones that fit.
One free account turns this page into a shortlist built around your stack, your level and your pay.
Match on every job. Stack, seniority, pay and location, scored against your profile.
1,962,532 open roles. Read straight off company career pages, refreshed every day.
Unlimited applications. Every one you send is tracked in one place, on-site or on a company board.
3 tailored CVs a month. Rewritten for the exact job you are applying to. Included free.
Create a free account Continue with Google
Free forever. No card. Under a minute.

Your match

How well do you fit this role?
Two answers are enough for a real match. No account needed.
Check my fit
Answers stay in this browser until you create an account.

Recommended for you based on this role

Operations
Similar stack
Same company
Tokyo
≈ $30k – $83k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Tokyo • Kobe
Apply
Cost Manager 18 days ago
≈ $30k – $82k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Tokyo
Apply
≈ $26k – $60k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Japan) • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Japan
Apply
≈ $50k – $96k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Edmonton
DevOps
Windows
Apply
≈ $75k – $150k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Supply
Apply
≈ $29k – $67k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Tokyo
Apply
≈ $19k – $40k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Tokyo
Apply
≈ $49k – $132k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Tokyo
Apply
≈ $43k – $101k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • PhD • Tokyo
AI/ML
AI Agents
Agentforce
Marketing
Salesforce
Apply
In office • Tokyo
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Apply
See all jobs
This is one of many
1,962,532 more open roles from verified company boards, updated every day.