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Job Description
Organization: Corporate Functions/Sales & Pricing Performance
Location: Negotiable – West preferred
People in the Corporate Function career track contribute to the running of Accenture as a high- performance business through specialization within a specific functional area, and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area.
Job Description
Accenture Pricing Architects are a highly visible group with a mission to develop and implement strategies and tactics that enable Accenture deal teams to maximize profitability and achieve desired outcomes for our clients through compelling, market-based pricing and commercial propositions. This role drives key strategic and tactical decisions related to pricing and profitability for a given geography, working across industries and services groups with a focus on building relationships, knowledge, and insights about each commercial environment. Market, Services, and Market Unit leads are trusted advisors within their respective Leadership teams.
Primary responsibilities include:
Core Service Execution
– Market Pricing Strategy and Execution: Support senior leadership in defining Accenture’s pricing approach to maximize profitable growth across Client Groups.
– Deal Pricing Strategy and Execution: S&C Pricing Architects design and implement commercial strategies to enhance profitability, overseeing price positioning and client optics, deal shaping, deal qualification activities and financial structuring.
– Competitive Positioning: Competitive Pricing Architects build a point of view about competitor pricing and capabilities, derive deal-specific Accenture price target based on differentiation, and work with stakeholders to achieve target.
– Rate Card Strategy and Development: Rate Card Pricing Architects design and develop client rate cards for account teams.
Drive and manage programs that improve sales
– Identify and drive sales & pricing performance improvements by developing and implementing best practices, process and reporting
– Support sales professionals/leaders in understanding client requirements, constraints, buyer values and high-level acceptability criteria for any solution
– Work with Solution Delivery and Sales teams in identification, analysis, solution, business case development, proposal preparation and presentation to clients
– Manage sales materials and credentials and coordinate the RFI/RFP/proposal response completion with sales teams, Solution Architects, delivery managers, and Sales Support teams
– Define, monitor and analyze program metrics, targets and strategic imperatives based on fiscal year plans as well as structure and/or review the cost models to achieve the most competitive price
Operational Execution
– With MU and Service Leadership, proactively manage the pipeline to ensure accuracy, identify trends (including but not limited to deal sizes, MD time, ADR / CCI, pyramids, commercial constructs etc.), and provide insight on opportunities for optimization both overall and across priority deals.
– Guide Pricing Support team in developing pricing and commercial propositions for bids and proposals, demonstrating the greatest value to clients and driving market-based pricing.
– Build and maintain strong relationships both internally within the practice and externally with clients.
Other Service Offerings
– Education: Support upskilling of client-facing practitioners and internal teams involved in sales & pricing, equipping them with the context and confidence to defend market-based pricing.
– Negotiations: Provide coaching on negotiation tactics and walk-away points and directly participate in client and/or procurement negotiations on a limited basis.
– Deal Profitability Triage: For specific opportunities identified by the Market and/or opportunities below deal level targets, identify avenues to increase price and/or margin on the opportunity across all aspects (e.g., solution, costing, commercials).
– TPA Benchmark Defense: Lead/support client/account teams through a Third Party Advisor (TPA) benchmark of an existing contract or a sole source pursuit on a limited basis.
Support Sales
– Build credible relationships and manage interface with Sales Lead(s), Legal, Finance, Contracting, Human Resources, Recruiting, Marketing, and other internal organizations, as well as clients, as appropriate
– Understand Accenture assets, offerings and methodologies to match to client business needs effectively
– Responsible for pricing wide-scale renegotiations and developing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis
– Provide ongoing training to the account team regarding rate card assumptions
– Support sales team by providing pricing data for client-facing and internal executive Powerpoint presentations
– Validate key Statement of Work (SOW) assumptions, e.g. double-check billable hours, Accenture investments, COLA/FX
Other requirements
– Must support/mirror working hours for the supported Market Unit or other business area
– Must be flexible with work hours according to shifting business needs
– Must have good internet connectivity and distraction-free environment for working at home, in accordance with local guidelines
– May be required to travel on rare occasions
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.
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Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
– Bachelor’s degree
– A minimum of 6 years of related experience
Preferred Qualifications:
– Business Management education desirable
– Deep understanding of S&PP processes and tools preferred
– Familiarity with Finance processes desirable
– Competitive Analysis: ADVANCED
– Deal Shaping: INTERMEDIATE
– Executive Presence: INTERMEDIATE
– Market Intelligence: ADVANCED
– Negotiation: INTERMEDIATE
– Pricing & Commercial Strategy Development: ADVANCED
– Pricing & Profitability Optimization: ADVANCED
– Experience working in a senior role with deal shaping expertise. Is great at educating and influencing other leaders, to change behaviors in line with desired outcomes. Grew up and made Manager on the line.
– Highly knowledgeable about the key components of a deal that can enhance profitability, with proven ability to structure different pricing arrangements
Professional Skills:
– English language fluency (oral and written)
– Enjoys the hunt – thrives on negotiation, but recognizes a good negotiation should be a win/win
– Consummate Learner AND Teacher – we want people who are intellectually curious and quick studies, with a mindset and drive to aggressively change behaviors toward market-relevant pricing
– Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with gravitas, confidence and credibility to engage and take on commercial negotiations with senior client decision makers and procurement teams
– Well-connected within their practice and viewed as an equal among the deal team – it is best for the practice lead to identify potential candidates (i.e. hand-select the bottle from the cellar)
– Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian
– Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian
Unless expressly indicated, this role is not open in the State of Colorado
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