Sales Excellence – Bid Management Manager

Title:  Sales Excellence – Bid Management Manager

Role (Job Profile): Bid Management Manager

Management Level: Manager (ML7)   

         

About Accenture:

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We Are:

Sales Excellence at Accenture. We empower our people to compete, win and grow. We develop everything they need to build and mature their client portfolios, optimize their deals and enable their sales talent, all driven by sales intelligence.

You Are:

A connector of dots as well as people. Like a mountain guide, you lead diverse teams towards a common goal with clear communication.  You are a motivator. As the climb gets tough, you keep the group focused on the summit while you navigate obstacles along the way. You enjoy bringing talented people together and charting the path to shared success.

The Work:

As a Sales Excellence Manager, you manage deal teams throughout the entire bid lifecycle. You use your sales process knowledge to ensure the right resources are engaged in preparing, developing, and negotiating bids that meet and exceed client requirements.  

You will:

• Understand clients’ needs and work with deal leadership to define win strategies and messages.
• Determine what expertise are needed to develop a compelling offer and plan resources accordingly.
• Drive bid activities and facilitate communication across teams and workstreams.
• Build and nurture positive relationship with key deal team stakeholders.
• Seek opportunities to optimize the bid management process and tools.
• Develop yourself and others through continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Here’s what you need:

• Bachelor comparable degree
• Minimum of 5 or more years of experience doing similar work
• English language fluency (oral and written)
• Very good leadership, people management, communication, and team building skills.

Extra credit if you have:

• MBA or similar degree
• Experience with sales, sales enablement and negotiations fundamentals and familiarity with concepts such as design thinking fundamentals, pipeline management, deal qualification, competitive positioning, client relationship strategy, relationship management techniques, deal shaping or financial modeling. contract drafting/ management fundamentals.
• Understanding of basic concepts of outsourcing, business process services, or Cloud, Security or other Technology aspects, platforms, or current trends
• Experience working with professional services industry.
• Experience working on large, global, and complex multi-million-dollar opportunities containing multiple types of work.

You may also need:

• Ability to work flexible hours according to business needs.
• Must have good internet connectivity and a distraction-free environment for working at home, in accordance with local guidelines.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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