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You develop strategic relationships with the Ecosystem Partner to keep abreast of all the latest developments in their offerings.\nYour focus is on origination of opportunities with the said Ecosystem Partner using your sales expertise and specialized knowledge.\nYou will drive origination and lead with the value of the Ecosystem Partner + Accenture for our clients.\nYou develop primary relationships with key Accenture and your Ecosystem Partner account personnel, most significantly client account leads, to identify and qualify opportunities to solve client pain points and growth objectives utilizing a differentiated roadmap and framework leveraging the latest Ecosystem Partners technologies and accelerators. Additionally, you will support the account personnel in building relationships with key buyers through bringing business and technical expertise to business development conversations and qualify and progress originated deals.\nYou are integrated as one Accenture with the Accenture Commercial leaders to ensure the best of One Accenture is brought to our clients and ensure that the Partner Offerings you are specialized in are socialized with the leaders in your Market as well as surrounded with the winning team and win strategy.\nYour focus on the Ecosystem partnership is a key objective and ensuring that the relationship is nurtured and a culture of trust is established, to ensure successful deal flow, client satisfaction and trusted partnerships. To win deals our partners and customers (internal and external) must love us.\nThe work:\nProspects new opportunities proactively through client account leads and direct client contact\nDrive a partner-aligned co-sell motion, including go to market development, alignment & customer targeting, joint opportunity origination & qualification and regional communications, awareness & enablement\nCreate awareness of the Ecosystem Partners incumbency, joint solutions offerings, and capabilities with all relevant Accenture and Ecosystem Partner stakeholders\nEngage in holistic partner planning including overall strategy, go to market development and alignment, financial success, tailored campaigns and joint client engagements\nIdentify complex technology business problems / opportunities requiring in-depth knowledge of client buyer needs and Accenture + Ecosystem Partner solutions that drive in year ROI and have an in quarter revenue opportunity\nCreate differentiated opportunities based on Ecosystem Partner offerings and joint go-to-market\nDevelop thought leadership to raise awareness of joint value proposition. Enable the Ecosystem Partner and Accenture teams on our unique joint value proposition, communicate investment levers and manage partner investments\nInteract with senior management levels at clients, within Accenture and the Ecosystem Partner to develop, align and execute pursuit strategies, develop client contact plans and relationship maps, and apply industry-leading transformation and operations strategies and practices\nHere's what you need\nRelevant degree in Economics, IT, Industrial Engineering or vocational training\nMinimum of around 8 years of Business Development expertise in the professional services space • Channel and Ecosystem partner management experience and ways of working\nFluent German and English language skills\nClient facing experience and willingness to travel within Germany\nBonus points if you have\nPrevious experience in conceptualizing, planning, and implementing transformation programmes\nExperience working within G2000 customers\nExperience with C Level client relationship building and relationship management\nAbility to discuss latest technology hot topics on the fly with VP clients and working level technical resources\nStrong leadership, problem solving, and decision making abilities\nUnquestionable professional integrity, credibility and character\nYou and Accenture\nIn this role, you’ll be part of the Global Accenture Sales Group. We leverage the full spectrum of digital technologies to simplify our clients’ everyday operations and lead their businesses into the future.\nThe Accenture Culture: Here, YOU Make the Difference\nYour skills, personality, and ambitions make you unique. And when diverse talents, strengths, and perspectives come together, something extraordinary happens: ideas that truly make an impact. That’s why Accenture champions diversity and individual freedom. Create a work environment where you thrive-with tasks you care about, a workload that suits you, and a working style aligned with your goals. How you network, learn, and grow personally is up to you. It’s your career. We’re here to help you shape it the way you envision.\nYour Contact\nStill have questions? Feel free to reach out to our recruiting team by email at  or by phone at 00800 45045045.\nWe look forward to your application!\nAbout Accenture\nAccenture 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 atwww.accenture.com\nErklärung zur Chancengleichheit am Arbeitsplatz\nWir sind der Meinung, dass niemand aufgrund seiner Andersartigkeit diskriminiert werden sollte. Alle Einstellungsentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Alter, Rasse, Glaubensbekenntnis, Hautfarbe, Religion, Geschlecht, nationaler Herkunft, Abstammung, Behinderung, Veteranenstatus, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität oder -ausdruck, genetischen Informationen, Familienstand, Staatsbürgerschaft oder anderen gesetzlich geschützten Kriterien getroffen. 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