Ecosystem Sales Director

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The role

As a Resale Director you operate at the heart of Accentures Technology Ecosystem; you are responsible for teaming with our powerful network of Ecosystem partners to shape deals around client needs and enabling clients to source products and services through Accenture as a resale thereby generating sales and resale margin. You develop lead and direct the execution of Resale Strategy and Plan at the CG or territory level. You effectively educate and influence client executives to leverage the Partner Ecosystem capabilities and offerings as part of the client solution.

What you will do

Territory Management Within assigned client group or territory:

• Understand Accentures client team activities to identify and qualify potential Ecosystem Sourcing opportunities.

• Perform networking and prospecting activities with clients client teams and partners to identify opportunities.

• Understand client buying processes patterns and behaviours for target clients.

• Track sales pipeline progress and sales forecasting and commitments accurately.

• Assess opportunities using qualification criteria including win probability revenue potential return on investment level of effort etc.

• Grow the territory by consistently adding new clients.

Sales Pursuit and Closure Within assigned client group or territory:

• Identify and qualify new sales opportunities within target clients to generate a strong sales pipeline.

• Direct qualified sales opportunities from requirements definition through deal shaping and proposal to negotiations and closure.

• Define and execute win strategies teaming strategies and client buyer maps.

• Create solution proposals and coordinate quoting process and internal approvals.

• Lead the client presentations and oral proposal activities as appropriate.

• Negotiate and close the sale(s) directly with the buyer(s).

• Provide post sale support and account management to ensure high client satisfaction.

• Socialise resale strategy with stakeholders.

  • Develop present and sell addon work and renewals.

Key Relationships:

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Accenture leadership and colleagues across client groups and service lines.

• Build relationships with clients procurement organisation and business stakeholders.

• Establish teaming relationships with partners to create differentiation and competitive advantage for opportunities we choose to pursue.

• Represent the Ecosystem within your geography client group and/or accounts acting as a conduit for Ecosystem information and relationships to support Accentures growth and innovation at our clients.

Your team

Accenture Technology leverages design thinking industry insights and the latest digital methodologies to help clients innovate grow and improve their businesses. Our expertise capabilities and experience mean that our clients (including some of the biggest brands in the world) trust us to find the right solutions for their needs.

Together with our talented international colleagues we focus on connecting the needs of businesses with the new possibilities that come with technological progress. Because thats where the real challenges are: inventing and testing things that have never been tried before getting new applications ready for roll-out and ultimately guiding clients to select and implement the right technologies to transform their businesses.

In your role you will report to the Technology Resale ANZ MU Lead and you may be responsible for supervising Ecosystem Sales pre-sales and post-sales support and technical professionals. Externally you will work directly with Ecosystem partners and

Requirements for the role

• Bachelors degree or equivalent required

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Technology sales/resale roles

• Experience in working at or with System Integrators preferred

• Excellent command of English is a must

• Previous experience with Salesforce as a CRM tool is desirable

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Advanced negotiation Ecosystem management sales and marketing skills.

• Global expertise and perspective.

• Exceptional communications skills.

• Apply out-of-the-box thinking.

• Executive level presence and influence.

• Excellent business acumen.

• Excellent mediation conflict management and leadership skills.

• Relationship building and influencing skills.

• Team building team player supervisory skills and mentoring skills.

• Self-starter and can-do mentality.

Location

Melbourne

Must have current working rights for Australia Visa Sponsorship will not be supported for this role.

Our offer

Accenture is an incredible place to work and to keep learning. By joining the team you will become part of a global company with a world-class brand and reputation. Besides the work we do for our clients were very proud of our vibrant diverse workplace culture: we believe in openness and honesty fairness and equality common sense and realism. We want to get to know the real you and help you explore and grow - whatever it is youre great at.

We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online in the classroom or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do and the experience it offers provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

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