Value Architect (AI Strategy & Value Realisation)

SUMMARY

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Opportunity & Value Definition
• Partner with clients and Avanade Next teams to identify, quantify and prioritise opportunities.
• Assess value pools, strategic priorities, operational constraints and feasibility.
• Sequence use cases by value and feasibility.
• Business Case & Baseline
• Build value hypotheses, business cases and baselines during shaping.
• Translate AI capability into a narrative CFOs, COOs and Boards recognise.
• Set the measurement model before delivery starts.
• Benefit Tracking & Governance
• Track realised versus projected benefit through delivery.
• Report benefit variance transparently at each gate.
• Recommend stopping, re-scoping or re-prioritising work where value is no longer achievable.
• Collaboration & Contribution
• Work alongside FDEs and Trust Architects throughout delivery.
• Contribute verified outcomes and benchmark data to the APAC value library.
• Support outcome-based and value-based commercial models with defensible numbers.
• KEY MEASURES
• Business case established and baselined on every engagement.
• Benefits tracking active across 100% of production deployments, reported at each gate.
• Post-deployment validation of business case assumptions, with variance explained.
• Contribution to the APAC value benchmark library each quarter using verified outcomes.
• Client acceptance of the value case at hard commitment gates.
• Executive stakeholders able to make investment decisions with clearly quantified value, risk and implementation assumptions.
• SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
• 5+ years in strategy consulting, business transformation, value engineering or a strong finance background.
• Solid financial modelling capability and comfort working with incomplete data.
• Understanding of AI value drivers, and enough technical fluency to challenge an engineering estimate sensibly.
• Able to hold a position with senior client stakeholders under pressure.
• Experience with benefits realisation on programmes where the benefit was actually measured afterwards.
• Clear written and verbal reasoning — the case has to survive being read without its author present.
• Work Rights: Australian Citizens are preferred; however, Permanent Residents will also be considered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in strategy consulting, business transformation, value engineering or a strong finance background.
• Solid financial modelling capability and comfort working with incomplete data.
• Understanding of AI value drivers, and enough technical fluency to challenge an engineering estimate sensibly.
• Able to hold a position with senior client stakeholders under pressure.
• Experience with benefits realisation on programmes where the benefit was actually measured afterwards.
• Clear written and verbal reasoning — the case has to survive being read without its author present.
• Work Rights: Australian Citizens are preferred; however, Permanent Residents will also be considered.
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