Responsibilities:
This high-visibility role demands strong leadership, motivation, and the ability to encourage teams while advancing Cisco's market share in Kenya and Nigeria
- Leading key sales initiatives and cross-functional teams to drive Sales growth in West Africa, aligning with MEA-TRC and EMEA strategies.
- Driving transformation through account planning, value-based selling, and exceeding booking targets while optimizing OPEX and demonstrating market insights.
- Implementing Cisco's vision for customers, adapting to market trends, and encouraging collaboration across teams and regions.
- Inspiring teams, developing talent, and promoting innovation to contribute to Cisco’s long-term success.
Who You Are:
- Passion for combining technologies and services to address specific business needs, with a focus on business impact over technical details.
- Ability to engage with all customer levels, from technical teams to CxOs, encouraging positive relationships.
- Expertise in crafting engaging, audience-specific proposals and understanding vertical markets, business challenges, and compliance requirements.
- Effective collaboration with partners to drive mutual success.
Minimum Requirements:
- 7+ years of extensive experience in technology sales
- The candidate must be based in Nigeria.
Desired Skills:
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Shown experience in selling technology solutions across areas such as Networking, Security, Collaboration, Data Center, Software, and Services.
- Shown success in territory sales and handling commercial accounts.
- Strong skills in time management, organization, and negotiation.
- Proven ability to make sound business decisions.
- Strong sales expertise and competence.
- Ability to influence and effectively engage with senior customer executives and key business decision-makers.
We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).