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Your Impact
You 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 maximize 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 of 4 years of technical sales or pre-sales experience with 2+ years in Security specialization experience with Email Security, IDS/IPS, AV, Firewall, Advanced Malware Protection technologies
BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent highly preferred
Successful quota achievement
Proven track record or managing and winning technical and high value IT security projects
Experience of administering Unix/Linux systems, low-layer (packet-level) IP networking and have a thorough understanding of network security
Preferred Qualifications
Solid presentation and interpersonal skills
Commercial awareness and strong communication skills
Highly motivated self-starter that does not need day-to-day management
Desirable experience with Cisco security technologies, experience with programing languages such as UNIX shell, Perl or C