Sales Excellence CoE Application Architecture Associate Manager

Accenture PLC; Madrid; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Life, and Accident Insurance

Flexible compensation program

Training itinerary and sustainability

Job summary

Accenture seeks a Sales Excellence - Center of Excellence Application Architecture professional to design, prioritize, and deliver sales applications used by 50,000+ users. You will ensure stability, performance, and alignment with business needs, working within the CoE.

You will collaborate across teams, supervise a small group if needed, and contribute to operational processes and tool design, while maintaining strong stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required.
• Typically 4–5+ years of relevant experience.
• Fluency in English (oral and written).
• Proficient in Excel with data manipulation.
• Detail-oriented and process-driven, able to follow procedures.

Responsibilities

• Be a functional architect supporting Accenture’s sales tools.
• Understand requirements and input design changes.
• Build and test application updates.
• Apply SDLC knowledge to execute projects from start to finish.
• Respond promptly to critical events and manage incidents.
• Manage user access and security provisioning.

Skills

English fluency

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Independent & team-oriented

Detail-oriented

High-level requirements understanding

Small team supervision

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Excel

Salesforce

Job description

Accenture, recognized as a Great Place To Work®, is a leading global professional services company that helps major businesses, public administrations, and other organizations around the world develop their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and improve services for citizens, creating tangible value at speed and scale.

About Accenture:

At Accenture, we believe your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It’s about bringing your skills, your curiosity and your best true self to your work. Here, you’ll match your ingenuity with the latest technology to do incredible things. Together, we can create positive, long-lasting change.

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

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

At Accenture, a company recognized as a Great Place To Work®, we are committed to a hybrid work model that, thanks to technology and our facilities, allows us to maintain the essential human connection to work with our teams and clients. This connection enables us to uphold our culture of inclusion and diversity and be, according to Refinitiv, the most diverse company in the world.

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