proactive, direct customer engagement at all levels, and working with our channel partners to develop leads and work through sales opportunities as a team.
good knowledge of the security technologies and products, of both Cisco and competition, as well as customer business drivers in the market.
great collaboration skills and team working skills to develop trusted relationships internally as well as externally with Partners and Customers
Excellent communications skills are expected in this role, ranging from persuasive skills on a one to one basis to presentations in front of large audiences.
Primary Responsibilities:
Identify new sales opportunities within the existing Cisco customer base, work with the Account Teams to qualify opportunities, and priorities activities within Service Providers & Enterprise in France
Work with the Cisco field sales team to develop a sales plan for the assigned territory.
Leverage and nurture the Cisco partner base, work with the Partner sales teams to win new business deals.
Control the sales process and drive leads to closure - generate new revenues.
Drive sales campaigns into target prospect base, working with Cisco field sales and Partner sales teams.
Secondary Responsibilities:
Develop deep understanding of product capabilities and value proposition.
Present to customers and prospects in a highly effective manner.
Forecast revenue and products plus update sales activity to management.
Negotiation of sales transactions.
Attend industry forums, tradeshows and events as required.
Who You are
You will be passionate about selling and security into Global Service
You must be able to demonstrate ability to sell in a consultative style, show understanding of customer requirements, discuss solutions, and sell Cisco security value proposition.
You have highly skilled and effective in recognizing and generating opportunities, technical presentations and consulting as well as closing deals
Experience in selling security solutions (Content security / Email security, Web security, SIG, DLP, VPN, ZTNA, EDR, XDR , NDR Next Gen Firewalls/IDS/IPS) and an understanding of the threat landscape is highly desired.
Having a good understanding of leveraging AI for Security as well as Securing AI
Established network of contacts and successful track record in sales and with SecOps, DevSecOps and NetOps