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Business Development Director (Service Now)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • At least 8 years of business development experience in professional services
  • Extensive experience in successful sales pursuit management
  • Hands-on experience in channel and ecosystem partner management
  • Experience in engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, including C-level executives

Responsibilities

  • Originate new business opportunities in collaboration with Client Account Leads and ecosystem partners
  • Drive joint go-to-market activities and shape partner-aligned co-sell motions
  • Develop trusted relationships across Accenture, ecosystem partners, and client organizations
  • Contribute to opportunity qualification, pursuit strategy, and deal progression

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Collaboration

About the company

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Accenture Nordics

  • IT Services & Consulting
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Get insights from Accenture in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 710,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners, and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.

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Job description


Shape new growth opportunities at the intersection of technology, strategic partnerships and client transformation. Turn strong ecosystem relationships into differentiated client value and new business.


Your Mission

As a Business Development & Ecosystem Sales Lead, you originate new opportunities and bring Accenture, ecosystem partners and clients together to address complex business challenges. You shape compelling joint propositions, drive co-sell opportunities and engage senior stakeholders to move strategic pursuits forward.


Your Daily Work

  • Originate new business opportunities: Identify and qualify opportunities in close collaboration with Client Account Leads, ecosystem partners and clients.
  • Drive joint go-to-market activities: Shape partner-aligned co-sell motions, define target customers and advance opportunities from initial positioning through the sales process.
  • Build strategic relationships: Develop trusted relationships across Accenture, ecosystem partners and client organizations, engaging senior and C-level stakeholders.
  • Shape differentiated client solutions: Understand client challenges and combine Accenture capabilities with ecosystem partner technologies to develop relevant value propositions.
  • Advance strategic pursuits: Contribute to opportunity qualification, pursuit strategy and deal progression while promoting joint propositions through partner planning and relevant industry initiatives.

Who You Are

  • You bring at least 8 years of business development experience in professional services and extensive experience in successful sales pursuit management.
  • You have hands-on experience in channel and ecosystem partner management, including joint go-to-market and co-sell activities.
  • You are experienced in engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, including C-level executives.
  • You communicate clearly and confidently and can collaborate effectively across clients, partners and internal stakeholder groups.
  • You understand technology trends and can connect them with business needs; experience with global clients and transformation programs is an advantage.

What We Offer

For this experienced business-development audience, I would prioritize:

  • Flexible working models, including home-office options
  • Role-dependent bonus programs
  • Access to more than 30,000 training opportunities covering professional and soft skills
  • Certifications and learning platforms to support continuous development
  • Mentoring and coaching programs

Contact Us

Any questions left? Feel free to contact our recruiting team via email at recruiting_germany@accenture.com. We look forward to your application.

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.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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