{"id":3198079,"url":"https://alion.io/job/accenture-sales-lead-data-ai-services-canada","title":"Sales Lead - Data & AI Services, Canada","company":{"id":271,"name":"Accenture","domain":"accenture.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/accenture","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":2094,"ghost_share":0.001,"stale_share":0.146,"repost_share":0.006,"time_to_fill_p50_days":5,"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"}},"role":"Sales","role_family":"Sales","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Toronto, Canada","Quebec, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":58000,"max_usd":143000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":52},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-28T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T06:25:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":93,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":93},"description":"We are:\nAccenture 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 & Consulting, Technology, Operations, and Industry X services-powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries.\nAccenture’s Data & AI practice helps organizations across Canada define, build, and scale data- and AI-led transformations. We partner with leading technology providers and ecosystem partners to help clients move from strategy to execution and measurable business value.\nYou are:\nA growth-focused sales leader with strong experience selling Data & AI services into large enterprise clients. You have a consistent track record of delivering against multi-million-dollar sales targets and thrive in complex, consultative selling environments. You are comfortable engaging senior client executives while working hands-on with pursuit teams to shape, position, and close opportunities.\nYou bring strong market insight across Data & AI strategy, analytics, AI/ML, and modern data platforms, and you know how to translate those capabilities into compelling client value propositions.\nThe work:\nAs an Associate Director - Data & AI Sales, you will be responsible for driving large deals personally while also managing the overall target and strategy for Accenture’s Data & AI Services within Canada, with a primary base in either Toronto or Montreal.\nYou will:\nOwn an Individual Sales Target, focused on new sales origination and expansion within existing accounts. You will also manage the overall practice target.\nLead sales pursuits across Data & AI Strategy, Data Platforms, Advanced Analytics, and AI-enabled transformation.\nOriginate and qualify opportunities by working closely with industry account teams and client stakeholders.\nShape and execute deal strategies, including client messaging, value articulation, pricing, and commercial structures.\nPartner with Accenture Strategy, Technology, and delivery leadership to ensure solution alignment and deal closure.\nDrive ecosystem and alliance-led opportunities, collaborating with Data & AI technology partners and hyperscalers.\nBuild and maintain trusted relationships with senior client executives, positioning Accenture as a long-term Data & AI transformation partner.\nOperate within large, cross-functional pursuit teams, directing specific sales activities and supporting overall deal execution.\nContribute to market activation, pipeline development, and account planning across priority industries.\nTravel may be required depending on client needs and sales pursuits.\nEnglish is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement\nWhat you need:\nProven experience selling Data, Analytics, AI, or Cloud-based services to enterprise clients.\n\nDemonstrated success delivering annual sales targets in the $20M-$50M range.\n\nStrong understanding of Data & AI strategy, modern data platforms, analytics, and AI-driven business use cases.\n\nExperience managing complex, multi-stakeholder sales pursuits from qualification through close.\n\nAbility to engage senior client leaders and influence enterprise-level decisions.\n\nExperience working with technology and ecosystem partners to co-create and co-sell solutions.\n\nStrong collaboration skills and comfort operating in a matrixed, fast-paced environment.\n\nCompensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.\nThe recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.\nThe base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.\nIt does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.\nInformation on benefits is here:\nRole LocationAnnual Salary Range\nBritish Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick$186,200 to $233,600\n#LI-NA-FY25 #LI-MP\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\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nWe believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6476,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Systems Integrators","Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-24T05:57:53Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"CA","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Positions approved through LMIA in 12 months: 5","filings_12m":5,"filings_prev_12m":6,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"High Wage; Global Talent Stream","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:10:52+00:00","sources":["ESDC: employers issued a positive LMIA"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.273,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":93,"expected_fill_days":5,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/accenture-sales-lead-data-ai-services-canada","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/accenture-sales-lead-data-ai-services-canada.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T06:58:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":10615,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":271},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=271"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Faccenture-sales-lead-data-ai-services-canada"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Faccenture-sales-lead-data-ai-services-canada"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Faccenture-sales-lead-data-ai-services-canada"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/accenture-sales-lead-data-ai-services-canada\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Faccenture-sales-lead-data-ai-services-canada"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3198079}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"accenture.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3198079},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}