Cisco Solution Engineer Leader 

United States, Texas, Houston 

687781212

Key Responsibilities:

•Work hand in hand with the Region Sales Manager to build a culture of collaboration, inclusion and constant growth

• Establish relationships built on trust and commitment at multiple levels within customer accounts

• Foster relationships with architecture leaders to bring the best cross functional solutions and teams to our customers

• Facilitate growth and development plans for all Solutions Engineering team members to drive personal and professional growth and a culture of curiosity

• Anticipate any change in the opportunities, market, customer needs and requirements that could impact the overall team goals.

• Build the capabilities needed to deliver on the team's short and long term goals, including identification and development of a strong pipeline of the best talent from both internal and external candidate pools

• Communicate a clear vision and strategy for the region that inspires and empowers the team to execute within a common framework

Who You Are

• People-focused technical sales professional who provides technical direction and business guidance to the Premium Sales teams.

• Self-starter who can actively develop and maintain a team of high-performing Solutions Engineers and continually seek innovative methods for improving team performance

• Ability to bring the company strategy into own technical team strategy

• Motivated to work on highly complex and extremely large deals with diverse set of internal and external collaborators

• Demonstrate an effective team approach with direct and virtual teams

• High energy, passion about driving business and be a positive change agent for the team

• Able to develop and lead the diversified and self-achiever team

• Willing to connect with people to recruit, hire and retain a diverse group of professional sales technologists

• Positive, Proactive, self-motivated with the ability to have the tough conversations when necessary

• Out of box thinking, encouraging innovation and teamwork in diversified environment

• Communicate a clear vision and strategy for the account that inspires and empowers the team to execute within a common framework.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical sales experience

• Detailed understanding of technology industry and future trend in security, collaboration, enterprise networking, cloud, DC, etc.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with customer executives, partner executives and internal key stakeholders.

• Demonstrated experience with showing leadership skills in a group of peers and cross functional team members.