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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Sales Executive - Data & AI Managed Services

Full-Time
CA$143.9k - CA$193.9k/yr
Senior, Expert
Montreal, QC, Canada+1 moreMore locations: Toronto, ON, Canada
In PersonTravel may be required depending on business and client needs.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 8 years of enterprise technology sales experience, including managing complex pursuits from qualification through close.
  • Demonstrated experience selling managed services, outsourcing, or run services, including application managed services, operations, platform managed services, data operations, analytics operations, or artificial intelligence operations.
  • A proven track record of shaping and closing multi-year services engagements with recurring revenue characteristics, including statements of work, managed services schedules, service-level agreements, governance, and transition.
  • Strong executive presence and the ability to build relationships across chief information officer, chief technology officer, and chief data officer organizations and business leaders.
  • Commercial acumen in pricing constructs, margin levers, scope control, renewals and expansions, and negotiation in complex procurement environments.
  • The ability to clearly articulate value propositions, build business cases, and convert technical capabilities into business outcomes.
  • English is required because the role regularly interacts with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada, the United States, and other countries.
Responsibilities
  • Lead full-cycle sales pursuits from origination through qualification, solution shaping, negotiation, and close for Data & AI Managed Services engagements.
  • Originate net-new opportunities, not limited to renewals or extensions, in complex client environments and cross-service-group motions.
  • Develop and execute account and pursuit strategies, including stakeholder mapping, value messaging, deal strategy, and mutual success plans.
  • Collaborate with delivery leaders and solution architects to shape the managed services scope, including the operating model, service levels, governance, transition approach, and continuous improvement roadmap.
  • Position outcomes related to availability, performance, time-to-insight, risk reduction, and cost optimization, and translate those outcomes into measurable commercial constructs.
  • Navigate client procurement, legal, security, and risk stakeholders; manage approvals; and contribute to contract and statement-of-work development.
  • Direct specific sales activities and coordinate across internal stakeholders to progress deals to closure.
  • Travel as required based on business and client needs.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience selling managed services for any combination of data reliability and observability, data governance and stewardship operations, MLOps or ModelOps, and data product operations.
  • Familiarity with information technology service management concepts, including operating model design, service levels, runbooks, transition-to-operations, and continual service improvement.
  • Experience structuring outcome-based services or key performance indicator-backed managed services, including time-to-insight, platform uptime, cost-to-serve, and adoption metrics.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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What believers are saying

  • Business demand grew: October 2026 results showed $74.2 billion annual revenue, up 5% in local currency.
  • Eligible US employees buy discounted stock: Accenture's purchase plan sells shares at 15% below market price.
  • Client relationships run deep: Accenture has worked with 195 of its top 200 customers for more than ten years.

What critics are saying

  • Bookings are not guaranteed revenue: most Accenture contracts let clients cancel quickly with little or no penalty.
  • Promotions require AI adoption: Accenture's CEO said in March 2026 that employees must use its tools effectively.
  • Federal hiring practices proved costly: Accenture settled discrimination allegations for $25 million in September 2026, without a liability finding.

What makes Accenture unique

  • Its AI platform switches models: AI Refinery selects among prebuilt models according to cost, performance and other requirements.
  • Accenture owns specialist Microsoft expertise: it cofounded the Microsoft-focused Avanade consultancy with the software maker.
  • Consulting includes creative agencies: Accenture Song owns businesses spanning advertising, digital product design and customer engagement.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Professional Development Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match

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Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is betting on enterprise AI as its main growth engine. At its Investor and Analyst Day, the company targeted at least mid-single-digit constant-currency revenue growth in fiscal 2027 and 2028, rising to mid- to high-single-digit growth from fiscal 2029. Chief executive officer Julie Sweet said AI will create new demand that exceeds work lost to automation. The company has grown its AI and data workforce from 40,000 to nearly 110,000. Accenture plans to return $9.5 billion to shareholders in fiscal 2027 and spend about $5 billion on acquisitions. It expects annual operating-margin growth of 10 to 30 basis points. Its network of specialised businesses, now 6% of revenue, could double by fiscal 2029. Fiscal 2026 revenue was $74.2 billion, up 5% in local currency.

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Accenture shares up 10.4% as dividend rises to $1.71 and AI alliances with Dell and Workday expand

Accenture shares rose 10.4% after the company reported higher sales and earnings for its fourth quarter and full year in early October 2026. It confirmed fiscal 2027 guidance, raised its quarterly dividend to $1.71 per share, and completed a long-running share repurchase program. The company also expanded its AI alliances with Dell and Workday and acquired Sagacity. It aims to embed agentic AI into client functions such as HR, finance, and customer engagement. Accenture's narrative projects $86.3 billion in revenue and $10.3 billion in earnings by 2029, up from $8.4 billion today. Pricing pressure and slower discretionary spending remain the main risks.

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Accenture will hold an Investor Day on October 14, where it is expected to detail its long-term strategy, AI monetisation plans, growth guidance, and margin expansion goals. The event follows a rebound in its shares after fears that AI would erode traditional consulting work. The stock hit a low of $118.15 in June, down from a January high of $291.09. It has since gained nearly 77%, helped by fourth-quarter results on October 1 and an expanded collaboration with Dell Technologies. Fourth-quarter revenue rose 6% to $18.7 billion, and new bookings reached $22.2 billion. Accenture expects fiscal 2027 revenue growth of 3% to 6% in local currency. It raised its quarterly dividend by 5% to $1.71 per share, payable November 13, 2026. Its market capitalisation is about $139.6 billion.