At a Glance
- Tasks: Advise senior leaders on sales strategies and improve sales performance.
- Company: Join Accenture, a leader in innovative solutions and positive change.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working hours, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a focus on collaboration and career development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving sales excellence and collaborating with top business leaders.
- Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in sales, strong communication skills, and strategic thinking.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
Position: Sales Effectiveness Senior Manager
Location: London
About Accenture
At Accenture, we believe your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It’s about bringing your skills, your curiosity, and your best true self to your work. Here, you’ll match your ingenuity with the latest technology to do incredible things. Together, we can create positive, long-lasting change.
We Are Sales Excellence at Accenture. We empower our people to compete, win and grow. We develop everything they need to build and mature their client portfolios, optimize their deals and enable their sales talent, all driven by sales intelligence. Sales Excellence is part of the broader Accenture Commercial Office.
You Are
- A strategic and trusted advisor – someone whom senior leaders can rely on to help drive desired outcomes.
- Energized by new challenges and often solve problems through a combination of best practices, new ideas, and collaboration.
- A natural leader with a gift for coaching others and playing to their strengths to maximize the team’s performance.
The Work
You will be a trusted advisor for some of Accenture’s senior business leaders, helping them to improve sales outcomes for the Firm. Providing direction, leadership, and support across key sales excellence programs – within an organizational unit and/or process area. You will work directly with sales leadership and teams to develop strategies and sales acumen, and drive adoption of sales performance metrics, tools and processes. You will organize and orchestrate activities across Sales Excellence offerings, with directions from the Sales Excellence Lead.
You Will
- Build credible relationships with senior business leaders, understanding their business and sales objectives.
- Use standard tools and assets to generate insights and outlook for stakeholders, to partner together to drive sales performance improvements (e.g., win rate, profitability, etc.).
- Be responsible for the delivery of the sales excellence experience, and contribute feedback for improvements to the offering experience, ensuring stakeholder needs are met.
- Be responsible for building specialization in one or more Sales Excellence offerings and/or support an organization node across offerings.
- Collaborate with Sales, practitioners, and Corporate Functions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Sales Excellence Offering Catalog and Offering model; help match Sales Excellence offerings to business needs, with ability to influence uptake with support from lead.
This specific role is for the Business Development Directors in the Ecosystem business and as such, will have significant interaction with Ecosystem Partner teams and Go To Market Sales teams.
Here’s what you need
- Undergraduate degree, or equivalent relevant industry experience (e.g., professional services experience and/or familiarity with professional services business model).
- English language fluency (oral and written).
- A minimum of 5 or more years of experience doing similar work, with proven track record in interacting with leadership.
- Experience using Accenture’s primary systems of record for sales and finance functions.
- Experience with Accenture’s processes and policies.
- Familiarity with Accenture's business model, pricing strategy, profitability levers.
You May Also Need
- Ability to work flexible hours according to business needs.
- Must have good internet connectivity and a distraction-free environment for working at home in accordance with local guidelines.
Contact Details:
Accenture UK & Ireland Recruitment Team
