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Cisco Sales Specialist, Collaboration in Mumbai, India
Communication needs to be agile. Mobile. Collective. The Collaboration portfolio makes instant communications and live meetings possible.
Product Sales Specialist - Collaboration & Cloud Communication needs to be agile. Mobile. Collective. The Collaboration portfolio makes instant communications and live meetings possible. It gives people a better way to create, share and to together through a deeply integrated set of industry leading communications tools and APIs for an unmatched collaboration experience that only the Cisco cloud can deliver. Our mission is to help customers and partners to migrate to this new collaborative platform.
Our mission is to help partner and customers to migrate to this new platform.
What You'll do
You have the right energy, ambitious spirit, personal drive, and past success in Sales to join the Collaboration Sales Team! In this highly visible and high impact role of Cloud Sales you will: Be responsible for forecasting and reporting business opportunities as well as building and maintaining your business pipeline Drive pipeline creation through multiple activities such as, targeted workshops, events, seminars, etc.
In this highly visible role as a cloud-focused software DevOps role you will:
Forecasting and reporting the business, building the pipeline for the future
You will participate in the creation of a technical account plan and actively generate leads through customer meetings, seminars, and education.
Conduct high-level conversations with C and VP level Executives to address business needs
Develop a thorough understanding of customer requirements and guide them on the journey from complex on-prem collaboration to simplified cloud collaboration
Develop and maintain business within existing accounts, lead complex sales situations and sales campaigns
Establish a strong relationship with Cisco Account Managers and extended Team. Build and execute a joint business plan for your assigned area
Develop and cultivate strong relationships with key customers and partners, both IT and LoBs decision makers
Partner with other Product Sales teams to align horizontal solutions with key accounts
Assume a leadership role utilizing field experiences in developing next generation solutions both alone and with partners
assist account teams in demo and presenting our amazing solution to customer, including ROI and value proposition
Who you'll work with
Come help us drive video and collaborative communications in the cloud and become a part of the dynamic Collaboration Technology Group. Our team is passionate about driving simplified collaboration to the cloud and continuing to lead the market in the single best collaborative experience.
Who You Are
Do you love a challenge and want to drive technology innovation globally? Are you a thinker, a creator, a leader, a maker? Are you a quota carrying achiever who consistently delivers against your forecast and goals? Is landing a new customer and closing the big deal what you wake up for every single day? Do you want to be part of an amazing, high-energy, rapidly growing business at Cisco?
If the questions above get you excited, you have a deep sales background with strong product positioning expertise and extraordinary closing skills, and a positive, hard-working attitude, then Cisco Collaboration is where you belong.
You will have:
A minimum of 8 years selling experience in either sales or sales engineering with a demonstration of over-achievement in demanding environments.
Experience SaaS selling required. And exposure to video or web conferencing solutions is a plus
Demonstrated excellence in Presentations skill with ability to build relevant, critical messaging
Consistent track record of closed sales, client satisfaction, & team work
Business forecasting, pipeline development skills
Prior experience of structuring Enterprise agreements is preferred
Familiar with APIs and workflows is preferred
Prior experience selling cloud solutions preferred
Proven ability to understand and interact with senior level management CXO levels
Experienced with Strategic Account Planning and Consultative Sales
Ability to craft collaboration solutions and to articulate business benefits of those solutions
Excellent communication, presentation and demonstration skills is required
Fast running self-starter with a senior approach and excellent relationship building abilities
Why Cisco
The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.
We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren’t afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.
We are leaders with vision, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers, and we are doers.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.