Sales Excellence CoE Application Architecture Associate Manager
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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 confident, self-motivated person who enjoys variety and a fast pace. You thrive in a fast moving, dynamic environment where you collaborate with your global colleagues to help deliver key services to your stakeholders. You find satisfaction in applying a proven approach to deliver high quality results.
The Work:
The Sales Excellence - Center of Excellence Application Architecture team provides functional architecture support for our sales and pricing tools, ensuring their stability, alignment, and performance.
As a member of the Application Architecture team, you will be part of the Center of Excellence (CoE). You will help design, prioritize and deliver sales applications that enable more than 50,000 users across Accenture. You’ll ensure that our tools continue to address evolving business needs for continued sales success. The role requires a high level of attention to detail, process orientation, and communication skills.
You will:
- Be a functional architect supporting Accenture’s sales tools
- Understand requirements and provide input to the design of process and tool changes.
- Build and test application updates.
- Apply your knowledge of the software development life cycle to help execute a project from start to finish.
- Respond promptly to critical events and follow through to ensure they are resolved (incident management).
- Manage user access to tools (security provisioning).
- Understand how the Application Architecture team supports the delivery of Sales Excellence service offerings.
- Work independently with minimal supervision
- Be an individual contributor with ability to recognize and seek guidance on competing priorities
- May supervise a small team with oversight from a supervisor
- Provide input into the creation of operational processes and tool design/maintenance
- Demonstrate knowledge of Sales Excellence Offerings and how Application Architecture supports them with expertise in specific area of responsibility
- Demonstrate knowledge of tools and processes, with expertise in specific area of responsibility
- Have an understanding of where and how Sales Excellence Application Architecture fits into the bigger Accenture picture
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Here’s what you need:
- Undergraduate degree
- Typically have a minimum 4-5+ years of relevant experience
- English language fluency (oral and written)
- Proficient in Excel and familiar with formulas and data manipulation
- Detail-oriented and process-driven, able to follow the established procedures and protocols
- Independent and team-oriented, able to work autonomously and collaboratively
- Basic knowledge of sales and pricing data and tools and how they are used in the business
- Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills, able to interact with various stakeholders and teams
- Ability to understand the high-level requirements and expectations of the different teams and applications
- Potential to supervise a small team with guidance from a supervisor
- Confident in engaging with senior leadership within the scope of responsibility
- Responsible for an area of medium size and complexity
- Must be flexible with work hours according to business needs (e.g., when interaction/conference calls with team members in other time zones is required, release cutover weekends, when a critical issue requires immediate resolution).
Extra credit if you have:
- Business Management education desirable
- Experience with Salesforce
- Understanding of sales processes and tools (e.g., Manage mySales) preferred
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Additionally, we offer you other benefits such as:
- Medical, Life, and Accident Insurance
- Medical service and wellness programs
- Flexible compensation program and stock purchase
- Flexibility programs (schedules, days off, vacations...)
- Individualized training itinerary
- Sustainability programs and Accenture Foundation
- Employee network for diversity
- Other benefits: Bankinter office with special conditions and profit sharing
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