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Accenture Song Sales Origination Lead (Google Ads + Cloud) in Walnut Creek, California

We are:

Accenture Song accelerates growth for our clients across industries through sustained focus on improving customer acquisition, conversion, and retention for business-to-business and business-to-consumer customers. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product, and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media, and marketing strategy; and campaign, content, and channel operations. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients drive revenue at speed through the potential of imagination, technology, and intelligence. Visit us at: http://www.accenture.com/song

How we go to market:

Our Client Engagement model enables our go-to-market teams to serve our clients and shape, sell, and deliver deals with greater relevance to our clients. Our sales teams are skilled in understanding client needs, building relationships and finding meaningful, impactful opportunities. Our Song Sales teams focus on structuring deals that drive new revenue to our clients profitably and identify opportunities for scale.

You are:

If you are an expert at developing data-driven marketing transformation opportunities within large enterprise businesses, we want to meet you. If you have a passion for helping clients leverage marketing technology to drive revenue and growth and have sold marketing/sales/customer success solutions, we want to meet you! There is never a typical day at Accenture Song, that’s why people love it here. The opportunities to make a difference while working on exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing space.

The work:

Your role will require you to directly work with the client, the Accenture Account Leads, and Google to enable data-led, digital transformation in the areas of digital marketing, sales enablement, and customer success initiatives. You will be running the deal. You will be accountable for shaping new deals, developing the sales strategy, aligning the teams to that strategy, and leading the team through both our internal processes and client processes to close the deals. Your focus will primarily be on Google Marketing Platform and Google Cloud as the primary technologies with Song’s wide portfolio of marketing, sales, and customer success offerings that support implementation and enablement.

Here’s a snapshot of your responsibilities:

  • Originate, qualify, and close new opportunities for Accenture clients that leverage Google technology to drive customer growth and/or operational efficiencies.

  • Work with Accenture Song Industry leadership teams to embed Google’s Data and AI technology in existing Song offerings to further drive value for clients.

  • Master Google’s growth strategy and align this strategy with Accenture market unit-specific business opportunities to increase win rates and grow sales.

  • Lead joint account planning sessions between Accenture and Google to align and accelerate existing opportunities.

  • Leverage customer data and lead the team performing rigorous analysis to identify potential value-creating opportunities, creating the business case, and developing the requirements to implement the strategy.

  • Be a thought leader in performance marketing, customer experience trends, solutions, and related qualitative & quantitative aspects, and help Industry Leads in creation of a digital value architecture.

  • Develop requirements to ensure technology vision and recommendations encompass Accenture Song assets, products, and services.

  • Work with Google’s sales team to align on clients’ overall objectives and metrics for success.

  • Provide strategy development and solution development to support new business activities and existing client relationships.

Here’s what you’ll need:

  • Minimum of 10 years of client-facing experience with demonstrated experience as a proactive leader

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience selling customer data and analytics solutions that drive enhanced experience, passionate of solutioning Data and AI technology or services (i.e., Google, Adobe, or Salesforce)

  • Minimum 3 years of experience with Sales capture and/or delivery and closing deals that include significant process change, technology implementations, process outsourcing, and/or technology outsourcing on Google platforms

Bonus points if: 

  • Comfortable carrying a $15M quota

  • Strong understanding of Google products or similar software and solutions

  • Experience working alongside Google or other similar software partners with focused experience in partner strategy and sales

  • Sold or run paid media and/or customer experience campaigns

  • Have been first chair on selling services deals in excess of $10M

  • Excellent story-telling skills and the ability to simplify complicated solutions

  • Core sales consulting skills including: - Executive & Digital Leadership Workshop facilitation - Client interviews / focus groups- Run end-to-end sales cycles (origination -> solution -> close)

  • Have a detailed understanding of the AdTech, MarTech and GenAI technologies and how to use them to solve client problems

Travel: As required for client support.

Location: Primary residency within 90 minutes of an approved Accenture office (Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland OR)

Compensation 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 for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York, or Washington as set forth below and information on benefits offered is here (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards) . We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Range of Starting Pay*:

California - $136,800 to $237,600

Colorado - $136,800 to $237,600

New York - $136,800 to $237,600

Washington - $136,800 to $237,600

  • In addition to base pay, this Sales role is eligible for additional incentive compensation under the Sales Achievement Bonus Plan, which is based on achievement toward individual sales targets, subject to Plan terms.

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