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AI Adoption & Transformation Consultant
Avanade
Toronto, CAN
Full Time
Senior
Hybrid
2 days ago
Change ManagementAI AdoptionMicrosoft CopilotStakeholder EngagementBusiness Case DevelopmentTraining and Enablement
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About the Role
Avanade seeks an AI Adoption & Transformation Consultant to guide enterprise clients through the people side of AI transformation. You will develop adoption strategies, lead change programs, and enable business value realization.
Key Skills for This Role
Change ManagementAI AdoptionMicrosoft CopilotStakeholder EngagementBusiness Case DevelopmentTraining and Enablement
Responsibilities
- Partner with executive and business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and evaluate AI and Copilot opportunities
- Develop adoption roadmaps aligned to business objectives and workforce transformation goals
- Help clients establish AI governance, readiness, and value realization strategies
- Translate emerging AI capabilities into practical business outcomes
- Assess organizational readiness, stakeholder needs, change impacts, and adoption barriers
- Design and execute enterprise wide adoption strategies for Microsoft Copilot and AI enabled solutions
- Develop communications, engagement, training, and reinforcement plans to drive sustained behavioral change
- Facilitate executive workshops, stakeholder alignment sessions, and transformation planning activities
- Define adoption metrics, success criteria, and value measurement frameworks
- Monitor adoption progress and recommend improvements based on user feedback and usage insights
- Help clients connect AI adoption efforts to productivity, employee experience, and business performance outcomes
- Design champion networks, enablement programs, and change acceleration initiatives
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in enterprise consulting, digital transformation, or business change enablement
- Bilingual (French/English)
- Prosci Certified Change Practitioner or equivalent
- Proven Microsoft Copilot knowledge credentials or equivalent
- Experience leading use case identification and business case development for emerging technologies
- Demonstrated experience guiding Microsoft 365 or Copilot programs with large enterprise customers
- Strong understanding of AI and productivity transformation, organizational readiness, and skilling strategies
- Experience with adoption and change management frameworks (Prosci or equivalent)
- Proven ability to work cross functionally with business, IT, and executive stakeholders
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience with internal communications, skilling, or change enablement programs in large organizations
- Experience working with adoption and success teams to accelerate impact and remove blockers
Full Job Posting
Position Overview
- As a AI Adoption & Transformation Consultant, you will guide enterprise clients through the people side of AI transformation.
- Working at the intersection of business strategy, organizational change management, employee experience, and Microsoft Copilot adoption.
- You will work directly with executives, business leaders, and technology stakeholders to shape transformation strategies.
What You'll Do
- Drive AI Transformation Strategy: Partner with executive stakeholders to identify AI opportunities, develop adoption roadmaps, establish AI governance, and translate AI capabilities into business outcomes.
- Lead Adoption & Change Programs: Assess readiness, design adoption strategies, develop communications and training plans, facilitate workshops.
- Enable Business Value Realization: Define metrics, monitor adoption, connect AI adoption to business performance, create executive narratives.
- Build Scalable Adoption Programs: Design champion networks, develop playbooks and toolkits, support scaling across business units.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in enterprise consulting, digital transformation, or business change enablement.
- Bilingual (French/English).
- Prosci Certified Change Practitioner or equivalent.
- Proven Microsoft Copilot knowledge credentials or equivalent.
- Experience leading use case identification and business case development for emerging technologies.
- Demonstrated experience guiding Microsoft 365 or Copilot programs with large enterprise customers.
- Strong understanding of AI and productivity transformation, organizational readiness, and skilling strategies.
- Experience with adoption and change management frameworks (Prosci, or equivalent).
- Proven ability to work cross functionally with business, IT, and executive stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience with internal communications, skilling, or change enablement programs in large organizations.
- Experience working with adoption and success teams to accelerate impact and remove blockers.
Preferred Experience
- Experience enabling champions communities at 1k+ scale.
- Prior short format consulting (Big 4/boutique).
- Deep enablement for finance/legal/customer service personas.
- Multi geo/multilingual rollouts.
- Creation of learning assets and Power BI adoption views.
Compensation
- The base pay range for British Columbia/Ontario is CAD 96,800 to CAD 114,950.
- Compensation varies depending on office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.
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