10–14 years overall in organisational change management, adoption and enablement, with proven delivery of at least one enterprise-wide Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot or comparable technology rollout — from executive sponsorship through to measured end-user adoption
Role Summary
Avanade India is looking for an Organisational Change Manager to own the people side of AI adoption on our client engagements. Training alone does not change how an organisation works; this role exists to make sure that once we have enabled a client on M365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot or the wider AI toolset, the organisation actually adopts it — from the leadership team down to every team that has to change how it works day to day.
You will design and run the change and adoption programme end to end: stakeholder and impact assessment, sponsorship and leadership alignment, a change champion network, communications and campaigns,
role-based enablement alongside our technical trainers, resistance management, and adoption measurement against agreed outcomes. The role is strongly client-facing — you will be in the room with sponsors and executives one week and running floor-level workshops the next — and it carries a presales element, shaping the change and adoption workstream in Avanade’s AI proposals.
Key Responsibilities
• Own the change management and adoption strategy for client AI engagements, using a recognised methodology (Prosci ADKAR, Kotter or equivalent) rather than an improvised approach.
• Run change impact and readiness assessments — who is affected, how their work changes, where the resistance will sit, and what the organisation is capable of absorbing.
• Secure and sustain executive sponsorship: work directly with CxO, business unit head and functional leadership to agree the case for change, the adoption ambition and their visible role in it.
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