Job Role: Sales Lead - Senior Manager/Associate Director

Sales Capture - Resources

Location: London

Salary: Competitive Salary and Benefits

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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As a team:

People in the Sales career track grow pipeline and sales by leading origination and/or closing of sales opportunities in a specific area or across a range of Accenture offerings. They progress by deepening sales skills and/or developing new related skills, growing into more complex sales roles.

The Resources UKIA Sales Team is responsible for originating, selling, and closing complex contracts typically >$10m in value. It is a dynamic team made up of Sales Captures who lead opportunities that often combine the full breadth of Accenture service offerings. We work with most of the major clients across Resources sector (Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, Natural Resources), as well as working with new players in the industry. This is an exciting and vibrant team who bring to bear the best of sales at Accenture within a team environment that positively encourages growth and promotion.

What responsibilities will you have?

• Overall sales responsibility for a large client or portfolio of clients, including development of sales strategy.

• Originate, shape and transact large, complex sales opportunities aligning Accenture’s value proposition to clients’ strategic ambitions

• Develop trusted relationships with key buyers and decision-makers at new and/or existing clients; and key ecosystem partners

• Lead opportunities from sales pursuit to close, including leading commercial negotiations

• Robust qualification of opportunities to focus on those we are best positioned to win

• Lead and manage sales end to end, including solution/proposition development, commercials proposition, client interactions and all aspects of the win strategy to beat the competition

• Manage and coach other Sales Captures or Bid Managers

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Proven experience originating and leading large, complex, strategic sales opportunities

• Experience of selling into the Resources sector (Energy or Utilities), or if not, a passion for the sector and knowledge of key market trends.

• Demonstrate an ability for independent thinking and an entrepreneurial mindset

• Client value obsessed, with ability to develop and articulate client value cases

• Strong business and commercial acumen, and ability to lead commercial and contract negotiations

• Track record of long-standing, trusted relationships with senior clients

• Ability to tell a compelling value-based story and to influence

• Orchestrating complex, multi tower opportunities across consulting, technology and operations

• Proven ability to successfully lead large, cross functional and diverse teams

• Team player with passion for coaching and developing next generation of sales talent

• Proven ability to successfully manage more junior sales team

What’s in it for you

All of our Sales professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programmes at every level to help you acquire and build specialised skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom/virtual, or in collaboration with others. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary and sales bonus scheme, you will have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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