Business Development Manager

Role overview

What you will do

• Originate, qualify, negotiate, and close deals for Avanade products and services.
• Activate sales strategy in the Washington Health and Public Sector market.
• Coordinate with teams to deliver sales and revenue impact.
• Work with business development, regional sales management, and sales leadership.
• Collaborate with client account leads, marketing, finance, legal, sales operations, alliance teams, Accenture, and Microsoft counterparts.

Skills and experience

• Proven experience selling Microsoft-oriented large-scale consulting engagements and managed services to health and state government clients.
• Experience with state government clients and interdepartmental engagement.
• Strong organization, time management, and coordination skills.
• Resilience across multiple stakeholders and a large region.
• Leadership, collaboration, problem solving, interpersonal, and persuasion skills.

Candidate profile

• The role suits a consultative, collaborative relationship builder.
• Candidates should be resilient, adaptable, flexible, intellectually curious, and passionate about technology.
• A convincing storytelling approach and engaging content creation are valued.
• A graduate degree is required; an MBA is preferred.

Career benefits

• The role offers access to technical and skilled resources globally.
• Employees receive a dedicated career advisor and support from engaged coworkers.
• The position provides exposure to a global Microsoft partner and cloud transformation environment.