Sales Excellence - Bid Management Manager, L7
Location: Remote
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 738,000 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 with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed 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.
As a Sales Excellence - Bid Management 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. Clients may be in broad industry verticals like Financial Services, Products, Resources, or Health & Public Service.
Key Responsibilities:
Understand clients' needs and work with deal leadership to define value proposition, win strategies and messages.
Determine what expertise is needed to develop a compelling offer and plan resources accordingly.
Drive bid activities and facilitate communication across teams and workstreams.
Build and nurture positive relationships within deal team and with client.
Seek opportunities to optimize the bid management process and tools.
Develop yourself and others through continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum 8 years of sales, bid management, proposal management, or project-based work experience with strategic, large and complex deals
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree, MBA or similar degree
Excellent leadership, people management, communication, and team building skills
Experience with sales, sales enablement and negotiations fundamentals and familiarity with concepts such as pipeline management, deal qualification, design thinking, competitive positioning, client relationship strategy, contract drafting/ management, relationship management techniques, deal shaping or financial modeling
Understanding of basic concepts of outsourcing, system integration, strategy & consulting, business process services, 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 and with clients in a variety of industry verticals like Financial Services, Products, Resources, or Health & Public Service
Exceptional English communications skills both written and oral
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.
Travel up to 25 - 50% as needed
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Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $94,400 to $224,600
Colorado $94,400 to $194,100
District of Columbia $100,500 to $206,700
Illinois $87,400 to $194,100
Minnesota $94,400 to $194,100
Maryland $94,400 to $194,100
New York/New Jersey $87,400 to $224,600
Washington $100,500 to $206,700
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