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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Business Development & Deal Shaping - Energy & Utilities

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

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bac+5 qualification from an engineering school, business school, or university is required.
  • Ideally, have 2 to 5 years of experience in consulting, transformation, strategy, complex project management, or presales of high-value services.
  • A prior experience or good knowledge of the Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, or Natural Resources sectors is an advantage.
  • Have a good understanding of large-company business issues and a strong interest in technological and operational transformations.
  • Be able to analyze complex problems, structure reasoning, and formulate convincing recommendations.
  • Have strong analytical abilities and an interest in the financial and economic dimensions of projects.
  • Be comfortable interacting with clients and willing to develop influence and negotiation capabilities.
  • Master French and English, both spoken and written.
  • Prior commercial experience is not indispensable; the employer seeks candidates with a strong understanding of client issues, the ability to build solutions, and a genuine desire to develop business-development skills.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze clients’ strategic, business, and technological issues.
  • Interact with client stakeholders to understand their needs, priorities, and decision criteria.
  • Develop an understanding of the Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, and Natural Resources markets to help identify commercial opportunities in strategic accounts.
  • Contribute to defining the sales strategy for opportunities (win strategy).
  • Analyze client stakeholders and decision-making paths (powermap), as well as the competitive environment.
  • Build differentiated value propositions that connect business benefits, technological solutions, and economic impact.
  • Mobilize and coordinate multidisciplinary teams of experts, consultants, and technology specialists to design solutions adapted to client needs.
  • Ensure compliance with internal validation cycles.
  • Prepare commercial responses, including RFPs and executive proposals.
  • Work with Finance, Commercial, and Legal teams to structure competitive, profitable, and contractually robust proposals, including pricing models and deal economics.
  • Participate in preparing and conducting commercial and contractual negotiations.
  • Prepare for and participate in client meetings, workshops, and sales presentations.
  • Present and defend value propositions to client decision-makers.
  • Contribute to managing the sales cycle and coordinating teams through contract signature.

Desired Qualifications

  • A prior experience or good knowledge of the Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, or Natural Resources sectors.

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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