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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Cyber Sales Representative for the Public Sector

Account ManagementPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A commercial or engineering Bac+5 qualification is required.
  • Demonstrated experience managing public-sector markets and their specific requirements is required.
  • Demonstrated experience creating and managing strategic partnerships with leading technology companies is required.
  • Demonstrated cybersecurity knowledge and understanding of the cybersecurity ecosystem, solutions, and offerings are required.
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills, including the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, are required.
  • Resilience, rigor, and a strong work ethic are required.
  • The ability to work autonomously and contribute effectively within a multidisciplinary team is required.

Responsibilities

  • Develop cybersecurity business across a portfolio of public-sector accounts and own pipeline, bookings, and revenue for one or more strategic accounts.
  • Co-define and execute cybersecurity account plans with the Client Account Lead and Security Account Lead, including priorities, offerings, and action schedules.
  • Manage the customer relationship management pipeline by qualifying and prioritizing opportunities, producing reliable forecasts, maintaining opportunity hygiene, and ensuring disciplined conversion at each stage.
  • Coordinate internal consulting, delivery, engineering, alliances, legal, finance, and marketing teams to address customer needs and maximize attachment and cross-selling.
  • Develop and maintain long-term relationships with C-level stakeholders, including CISOs, CIOs, COOs, and CFOs, and key risk, compliance, and procurement influencers.
  • Lead complex sales cycles from origination through closing, accounting for public-sector requirements.
  • Monitor and analyze public-sector tenders and assess whether to pursue them by qualifying opportunity value, differentiation, sponsors, competition, and decision criteria.
  • Lead tender responses by guiding operational teams through commercial offer development, needs definition, solutioning, staffing, effort estimates, and response schedules and governance.
  • Develop value propositions and business cases, structure fixed-price, time-and-materials, or managed-services/annual recurring revenue contracts, and protect margins.
  • Lead presentations, including executive narratives, demonstrations, proofs of concept, references, return on investment, and risk-reduction plans.
  • Manage long sales and decision cycles and negotiate commercial terms, service-level agreements, penalties, master service agreements, and compliance with DORA, NIS2, and GDPR.
  • Apply knowledge of relevant standards and institutions, including ANSSI and SecNumCloud.
  • Maintain institutional relationships with regulators and purchasing groups such as UGAP.
  • Advise public-sector clients on developing, implementing, and managing cybersecurity solutions.
  • Contribute to selling transformation and innovation projects.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

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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