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Avanade

Digital transformation, cloud, and IT consulting.

Microsoft Security Growth & Transformation Manager

Business Development & PartnershipsUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeBerlin, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in cybersecurity consulting, advisory, business development, or pre-sales.
  • A proven track record of generating and developing consulting or technology pipelines.
  • Experience shaping security transformation opportunities for enterprise or mid-market customers.
  • A strong understanding of the Microsoft partner ecosystem, co-sell initiatives, incentives, and funding programs.
  • A demonstrated ability to work with executive-level leaders and influence investment decisions.
  • Experience conducting discovery workshops, executive briefings, and opportunity-qualification sessions.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft security technologies and their licensing, especially E7, Security Copilot, Agent 365, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, Entra, and Purview.
  • Fluent German and English language skills at a minimum C1 level.
  • Be commercially oriented, growth-oriented, and results-oriented.
  • Be credible and persuasive with both executive and technical audiences.
  • Proactively identify opportunities and remove obstacles to their development.
  • Be comfortable in a highly visible role with clear targets, without formal delivery responsibility.
  • Have strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Be team-oriented, structured, and consistent in follow-up.
  • Be curious about developments in security, AI, and Microsoft.

Responsibilities

  • Generate, qualify, and develop the Microsoft Security pipeline among new and existing customers.
  • Identify security challenges, investment triggers, and transformation priorities by working with account teams, conducting workshops, and speaking with executives.
  • Convert initial customer interest into concrete opportunities, funded assessments, transformation roadmaps, pilot projects, and strategic programs.
  • Guide the full opportunity lifecycle as a customer-facing business contact and trusted advisor.
  • Drive customer adoption of the Microsoft Security Frontier Journey and translate Microsoft strategy into concrete customer transformation paths.
  • Position Microsoft E7 as a strategic value proposition spanning security, AI, and governance, including identity, privacy, cyber defense, Security Copilot, and Agent 365.
  • Develop Sentinel opportunities focused on SIEM modernization, migration from existing SIEM solutions, security operations transformation, and managed detection and response.
  • Help customers define phased transformation paths, from initial analysis and funded assessments through business cases, implementation, optimization, and managed services.
  • Align opportunities with relevant Avanade offerings, differentiators, and industry-specific customer outcomes.
  • Maintain current knowledge of Microsoft licensing, incentives, funding programs, product developments, and competitive positioning.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior business, technology, risk, and security stakeholders.
  • Lead strategic security discussions with executives on business priorities, cyber risks, AI adoption, operational resilience, and investment outcomes.
  • Conduct discovery workshops and strategic advisory conversations to identify customer needs and generate qualified opportunities.
  • Translate technical security capabilities into clear business value, concrete transformation outcomes, and informed investment decisions.
  • Develop executive presentations, value propositions, high-level business cases, and actionable transformation roadmaps.
  • Coordinate Avanade, Accenture, and Microsoft collaboration to develop strategically important opportunities.
  • Support Microsoft co-sell, joint account planning, campaign execution, and partner-led demand generation.
  • Work with security solution architects and specialists to move qualified opportunities into solution development, commercial structuring, and statements of work.
  • Represent Avanade at customer events, executive briefings, workshops, and industry events.
  • Provide market feedback to improve security offerings, campaigns, and go-to-market initiatives.
  • Generate and qualify pipeline and opportunities; grow accounts and plan joint opportunities; develop business cases and value propositions; communicate and present to executive audiences; conduct workshops and consultatively assess needs; influence stakeholders and manage relationships; apply commercial judgment and sales discipline; coordinate across sales, architecture, delivery, and partner teams; and report clearly on pipeline, funding, outcomes, ownership, and next steps.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with SOC modernization, cyber defense, AI security, or security operations transformation.

About the Company

Avanade

Digital transformation, cloud, and IT consulting.

Avanade helps large organizations move to digital operations using Microsoft-based solutions. It combines consulting, implementation, and managed services to deliver digital transformation, cloud migration, and optimized business processes. Its offerings are built around the Microsoft ecosystem, with partnerships with Microsoft and Accenture enabling tailored, enterprise-grade deployments. Avanade differentiates itself by aligning technology delivery with business outcomes for enterprise and public sector clients, focusing on long-term service contracts and customized design-led experiences. The company's goal is to drive efficiency, improve customer experiences, and support sustainable growth for clients through technology-enabled transformation.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Seattle, WA
Founded
2000

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