What You'll Do:- Forecast and report business opportunities, building and maintaining a robust pipeline.
- Drive pipeline creation through targeted workshops, events, seminars, and customer meetings.
- Engage in high-level conversations with C and VP level Executives to address business needs.
- Develop a thorough understanding of customer requirements and guide them from complex on-prem collaboration to simplified cloud solutions.
- Cultivate strong relationships with key customers, partners, and Cisco Account Managers, developing joint business plans.
Qualifications:- Minimum of 8 years of sales or sales engineering experience with a proven track record of over-achievement.
- Experience in SaaS selling is required; exposure to video or web conferencing solutions is a plus.
- Demonstrated excellence in presentation skills with the ability to build relevant, critical messaging.
- Proven ability to interact with senior-level management (CXO levels).
- Strategic Account Planning and Consultative Sales experience.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and demonstration skills.
- Fast-running self-starter with strong relationship-building abilities.
- Prior experience of structuring Enterprise agreements is preferred.
- Prior experience selling cloud solutions preferred.
- Ability to craft collaboration solutions and to articulate business benefits of those solutions.
- Consistent track record of closed sales, client satisfaction, & teamwork.
Top 5 Must-Have Criteria:- Minimum of 8 years in sales or sales engineering with a proven track record of over-achievement; experience in SaaS selling is required.
- Demonstrated excellence in communication and presentation skills, with the ability to conduct high-level conversations with C and VP level Executives.
- Proven ability in business forecasting, pipeline development, and structuring Enterprise agreements.
- Experience in Strategic Account Planning and Consultative Sales, with a proven ability to interact with senior-level management (CXO levels).
- Fast-running self-starter with excellent relationship-building abilities, capable of developing and maintaining strong relationships with key customers and partners.
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