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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Ecosystems & Alliances Lead

Business Development & PartnershipsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMidrand, South AfricaNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree is required.
  • At least 10 years of experience in business development, alliances, commercial strategy, sales, or partner management is required.
  • A proven track record managing strategic enterprise technology partnerships is required.
  • Experience driving pipeline, revenue growth, and partner-led opportunities is required.
  • Experience supporting complex client pursuits, proposals, and large deal-shaping activities is required.
  • Knowledge of enterprise technology platforms such as AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow is required.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships internally and externally are required.
  • A deep understanding of enterprise software, emerging technology trends, and alliance-driven growth models is required.
  • The ability to meet or exceed sales and revenue targets is required.
  • The role requires strategic thinking, commercial and growth instincts, relationship building, influencing, communication, executive presence, cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision-making, outcome orientation, and comfort working across alliances, sales, commercial, and client account teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage strategic relationships with ecosystem and alliance partners across all Reinvention Partners to drive joint commercial success.
  • Shape and execute joint go-to-market strategies aligned with commercial priorities and the growth agenda.
  • Identify, originate, and progress partner-led opportunities across strategic accounts and priority industries.
  • Own alliance-driven pipeline development, including tracking, reporting, revenue forecasting, and conversion.
  • Partner with account teams, sales teams, and commercial leadership to embed ecosystem value into client pursuits and deal strategies.
  • Drive joint propositions, campaigns, and eminence activities to strengthen market presence and create demand.
  • Support bid management, solution shaping, and proposal development for alliance-related opportunities.
  • Help structure commercially viable opportunities by aligning partner offerings, client needs, and Accenture value propositions.
  • Track performance against growth, revenue, and partnership objectives, ensuring clear commercial accountability.
  • Act as the primary commercial interface between Accenture and named strategic alliance partners.

Desired Qualifications

  • An Honours or Master's degree is preferred.
  • Relevant platform certifications across major ecosystem partners are preferred.

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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