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Your ImpactYou will provide guidance and assist Security Sellers and Account teams within the territory in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco security product solutions, setting up demonstrations, explaining features and benefits to customers, and designing and configuring products to address specific customer security needs. You will form relationships with our customer’s key decision-makers, positioning Cisco security solutions aligned accurately to their requirements.
As an advisor to the customer, you’ll be working with technology experts to craft architectures and configure products to meet customer-specific needs, are prepared to lead all technical aspects of pre-sales activities, and position security solutions effectively against competing offerings. You are an aggressive starter, self-starter with the ability to build executive relationships, develop and execute sales strategies and tactics that improve Cisco’s opportunity with a customer environment, position and promote the partner and customer value proposition for Cisco security architecture, articulate Cisco’s product and business strategies, and create the demand that makes deals happen! You will:
Serve as the subject matter expert in Cisco security solutions
Provide guidance and assist account teams within the territory in building solutions to address specific customer security needs
Understand business requirements for a customer base and be able to translate them into technical requirements
Understand and articulate Cisco’s architecture and services within security technologies
Create, present, and document technical solutions
Perform in-depth and high-level technical presentations for customers partners and prospects
Drive identified major account opportunities (i.e. technical consulting, upper-level management presentations, and Cisco technology solutions) while allowing local account teams to maintain long-term ownership
Minimum Qualifications:You are passionate about the customer experience and excited about new technology. You are a true teammate and love to learn. Being a self-starter, our SEs act as an industry domain authority, and strive to help Cisco make customers for life. Minimum qualifications include:
4+ years of technical sales or pre-sales experience while successfully carrying a quota.
2+ years’ experience in operations or otherwise with cybersecurity technology.
Candidates must be in territory and able to travel up to 50% of the time to customer sites.
Preferred Qualifications:
Proven track record of managing and winning technical and high-value IT security projects.
Experience in administering Unix/Linux systems, low-layer (packet-level) IP networking, and a thorough understanding of network security.
Solid presentation and interpersonal skills.
Commercial awareness and strong communication skills.
Highly motivated self-starter who does not need day-to-day management.
Desirable experience with Cisco security technologies, experience with programming languages such as UNIX shell, Perl, or C.