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Your Impact
In this position, you will be facilitating the success of Cisco sales teams in selling Networking products and technologies (SDWAN, SDAccess, Routing, Switching, WLAN, Meraki) with measurable sales objectives for the regions you support.
You will be quick to find opportunities, able to handle people and prioritize opportunities, highly capable as a trusted consultant and mentor to salespeople and committed to improving the competency of the team.
You will be responsible for developing a business plan to meet and exceed assigned quota and you will plan sales strategies, develop proposals, deliver customer presentations, and close the business.
You’ll help advance the Central Commercial Networking sales team and make our customers lives better and easier.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years sales experience in Networking including, but not limited to switching, wireless, and network security technologies.
Proven track record in managing and winning major strategic opportunities, with the ability to work unsupervised; ability to interact as a valuable team member.
Experienced in multi-level selling, comfortable influencing CxO, IT Managers, Purchasing, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
You are a Networking Account Executive responsible for selling Networking technologies. In this position, you will be facilitating the success of Cisco account teams in selling specific Enterprise Networking, Wireless, and Digital Network Architecture technologies related to your area of expertise, with measurable sales objectives. This is a specialist position on the US Networking team. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing a business plan to meet and exceed assigned quota.
Technical software sales experience is desired.
Ability to handle a long and complex sales cycle.
Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
Strong listening and presentation skills.
Ability to collaborate with multiple teams and multiple levels of the organizations (account managers, technical leaders, Partners, Channels, etc.).
Requires a solution sales approach versus a product specific approach.
This person must work well in teams and be able to create an outcome where everybody wins.
Position requires a passion for driving strategies; a strong personality with demonstrated leadership skills working in a complex matrix organization.
Local travel and occasional overnight travel is required.