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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Associate Director Sales & Business Development

Account ExecutiveUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of professional experience in consultative sales, business development, or commercial management of technology services.
  • Within that experience, experience selling application-development services, software engineering, technology modernization, development factories, or managed services.
  • Experience in technology consulting firms, systems integrators, or professional-services divisions of technology vendors, with a focus on selling services and custom development rather than exclusively software licenses or products.
  • Experience managing and closing technology-services deals worth approximately €8 million or more.
  • Experience managing full sales cycles, including opportunity identification and qualification, sales strategy, proposal coordination, pricing, negotiation, and close.
  • Experience selling development factories or managed services using capacity-, team-, deliverable-, service-level-, or outcome-based commercial models.
  • Ability to engage with CTOs, CIOs, and development leaders on application architecture, custom development, technology modernization, cloud, APIs, microservices, and DevSecOps.
  • A university degree in Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, another engineering discipline, or a technology-related technical field.
  • English proficiency at C1 level or higher.
  • Consolidated experience in business development, consultative sales, or commercial management in technology environments.
  • Experience leading complex commercial opportunities and strategic sales processes.
  • Knowledge of the Software, Digital Platforms, and Technology Transformation markets.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with executive and C-level stakeholders.
  • Experience preparing and presenting commercial and executive proposals.
  • Experience coordinating multidisciplinary and international teams in complex sales processes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the complete sales cycle for Software & Engineering services, from identifying and qualifying opportunities through commercial strategy, proposal development, negotiation, and closing complex deals.
  • Develop opportunities involving custom application development, application modernization, development factories, and managed engineering services, using commercial models based on capacity, deliverables, service levels, or outcomes.
  • Design value propositions with architecture, presales, and delivery teams, translating clients’ business and technology needs into scalable development solutions, operating models, and competitive commercial proposals.
  • Hold commercial and technical discussions with CTOs, CIOs, and engineering and development leaders about application architectures, cloud, APIs, microservices, DevSecOps, development-cycle automation, and the evolution toward agentic applications and architectures.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience participating in the sale, design, development, or production deployment of AI-agent-based applications.
  • Experience selling agentic application-development services and distinguishing custom development from third-party products, platforms, or licenses.
  • Experience with outcome-based commercial models or managed services tied to service levels, productivity, or results.
  • Experience working with or collaborating with development factories and knowledge of capacity-, people-, deliverable-, and outcome-based models.
  • Experience on projects or proposals using agentic development frameworks and platforms such as Microsoft Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Foundry, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalent technologies.
  • Experience in application-modernization programs, cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, and development-cycle automation.
  • Commercial experience in Financial Services, Telecommunications, Products, Resources, Health & Public Services, or Travel 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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