These high-level supporting activities help the Open innovation team:

• Act as a strategic advisor and sharpen analytical insights
• Drive client impact, differentiation and partner-related revenue growth
• Build a strong internal network to generate opportunities for our partner companies
• Originate, develop, and execute new partnerships
• Manage the startup onboarding legal and procurement process

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Qualifications

Here's what you need:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate's Degree with 6 years of work experience)
• 5 years of consulting experience, and or presales experience

Bonus Points if:

• Skilled in synthesizing information from various sources and infer practical implications to Accenture's or our clients' business
• Familiarity with system integration, solution architecting and large scale deployments of enterprise technology
• Experience in working with large account teams in enterprise technology context,
• Familiarity with a given startup landscape
• Firm understanding with how consulting firms operate and its respective business models
• Ability to effectively switch between strategy and tactics, coupled with a strong sense of urgency to move sales opportunities forward
• Ability to thrive in a high-pressure sales environment
• Excellent program and project management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to present information effectively to novice and expert audiences
• Experience valued: corporate strategy and/or consulting, corporate innovation, pre-sales or strategic partnerships / VC and PE, Marketing in high tech possible too.
• Economics, Engineering, Business undergraduate degree with honors. Graduate degree, MSc. or MBA preferred
• Proficient in at least one European language in addition to full working fluency in English

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