Account Executive - SP Routing and Optical

The Product Sales Specialist (PSS) is required to be actively collaborating and working with the Cisco Account Managers, Business Development Managers or Partners to drive a selling of Cisco’s MIG (Routing and Optical) portfolio into the Service Providers across India business territory.

The PSS is encouraged to build trusted relationships and close on qualified opportunities with customers by advising and supporting collaborative sales efforts with Cisco Sales Representatives.

Job Purpose

• Supports the success of an assigned team of sales people, including Account Managers, and Business Development Sales Representatives.
• Meets assigned targets with accurate forecasting for profitable sales growth in Cisco MIG products portfolio and associated services revenues.
• Provides mentor and professional development to team member sales associates in order to improve their product knowledge and sales skills
• Establish productive and professional relationships with Cisco Partners in assigned customer accounts.
• Lead demand-generating marketing activities in the assigned market for the assigned product specialty.
• Customer CXO engagement, primarily CTO organization
• Work closely with Cisco Business Units (BU’s) and Account teams to ensure deals are profitable

Accountabilities and Performance Measurement

• Responsible for the India assigned geographical Accounts.
• Achieves assigned product and services sales quota
• Maintain an In-depth knowledge of Cisco competitors
• Collaborate with Cisco CX to stitch End to end solution
• Actively create and position return on investment based business case modelling to drive value-based selling at CXO level and achieve desired profitability objectives for Cisco
• Map and Drive customer’s end to end Transport architecture journey
• Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings that meet Cisco standards

Knowledge and experience

Must possess required Sales knowledge and experience in the collaborative environment in the Sales Professional and Partners environment. They should possess:

• The successful candidate will be viewed as the “go-to” specialist for account teams.Therefore, a minimum of 10 years of experience in Service Provider Routing, Optical and Solution sales is required
• Should have experience 10+yrs
• Track Record of sales excellence and sales quota over achievement
• Proven record of excellent communication and evangelical skills (written and verbal) to all management levels and within customer organization. Ability to listen carefully and extract key issues.
• Ability to build senior executive relationships, with ability to position complex solutions at senior IT and CxO levels
• Excel in presenting technical architectures, solutions, and products to key decision-makers. Be able to explain the benefits of complex technology in easy-to-understand business language
• Demonstrate clear awareness of the SP market, trends & transitions
• Strong Understanding of Telecom networks, IP Networking, L2/L3 VPNs, SDN, Segment routing/v6, Optical Networking, 4G/5G networks
• Exposure to Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics process automation is good to have skills but not mandatory

Why Cisco

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