Job Description

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Job Summary:

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 (MU) 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Knowledge & Skill Requirements:

Competitive Analysis

Deal Shaping

Executive Presence

Market Intelligence

Negotiation

Pricing & Commercial Strategy Development

Pricing & Profitability Optimization

Educational Qualification

Undergraduate degree, Business Management education desirable

English language fluency (oral and written)

Skills & Work Experience

A minimum of 6 years of experience

Deep understanding of Accenture Sales processes and tools preferred

Familiarity with Finance processes desirable

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.

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

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