Director, Cloud & AI Infrastructure Sales

Application window is expected to close on 10 / 12 / 2024

Why You'll Love Cisco :

We change the World. You will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives.

Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything. Here, that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact.

You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected.

You'll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities.

Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired.

We are looking for a leader who is passionate about developing great experiences for customers and is knowledgeable about how to navigate and positively influence an organization cross functionally at a peer and executive level.

What You'll Do :

Cisco is seeking a seasoned and experienced Sales Director, Worldwide Compute Sales. The Sales Director, will lead, steer and scale Cisco's Compute Sales Team globally, ensuring that sales facilitating effective coverage and identifying business opportunities, while effectively teaming and collaborating with the wider Cisco business to improve coverage, execution, and performance at scale.

This role consequently represents a unique opportunity to build the Cisco Compute business. We are seeking a truly exceptional leader who will thrive in building, leading and managing first-line leaders and their teams.

The Compute Sales Director will own sales responsibility for selling the entire Cisco Compute portfolio. This leader will be responsible for building the Compute sales plan for achieving a revenue quota target, running the sales forecasting process, and coaching the team of business development and sales professionals to achieve (or, ideally, over-achieve) the target quota.

Additional responsibilities include :

• Achieving growth goals across the Cisco Compute portfolio
• Lead and drive exceptional sales execution and operational excellence, and develop initiatives to penetrate the market, achieve sales goals, and leverage sales assets.
• Lead by example, create, and sustain a culture, built on professionalism, collaboration, and creativity.
• Drive market share growth for Cisco Compute by expanding current customer investment as well as new account acquisition.
• Develop strategies to promote thought leadership in the market, and maintain positive relationships with key customers and partners.
• Run forecasting processes to provide insight to Cisco's leadership of sales pipeline status and potential to achieve target bookings, as well as upside and downside risks to achieving target bookings.
• Be operationally excellent in the day-to-day running of the business including forecasting, pipeline development, training, certifications, hiring, performance management, collaboration and partnership.
• Serve as a visionary and cultivate innovation, articulating a compelling, long-term vision and inspiring others to action.

Who You'll Work With :

The Compute Sales Director will develop relationships and drive partnership and collaboration across Cisco to be successful in the role.

This includes the portfolio sales teams, sales engineering, sales ops, sales enablement, channels, marketing, product management, and customer success.

Who You Are :

You have a reputation and track record of success as a strong sales leader. You are dynamic in verbal and written communication skills and you inspire and build excitement with the sales team, as well as across the organization and in the marketplace.

• You understand business transformation and are able to articulate and drive it within your teams.
• You know how to drive plans at executive levels of the company and have the ability to influence and matrix manage to accomplish results and understanding of customers.
• Experience with revenue responsibility and sales leadership along with cross functional / general management experience.
• Strong leadership skills in coaching and developing a sales organization and you are able to persuade using simple communications that convey complex concepts in a compelling, concise, inspiring, and creative way.

Our Minimum Requirements for this role :

• 10+ years of sales or related experience
• 5+ years of management and / or sales leadership experience

Desired Skills :

• Second line leadership experience
• BS / BA or equivalent experience
• Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation.

Why Cisco?

WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone.

How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out.

We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times.

We're helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together.

We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

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Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

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