Cisco Account Manager 

Nigeria, Lagos State 

55369435

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.

• 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.

• 7+ years of extensive experience in technology sales
• The candidate must be based in Nigeria.

• 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).