About the Role
As an Account Executive at Cisco, you will manage a growth target for an assigned territory using a channel go-to-market distribution model. You will target market opportunities by segment and use available resources to aggressively pursue opportunities while also showing sales penetration within a target account list. You'll have a "hunter" mentality, while at the same time exhibiting strategic sales savvy and building strong relationships with customers. You will sell in a matrixed environment that requires a customer-first approach. You will play a pivotal role in growing the company's revenue by identifying new sales opportunities and expanding relationships with existing clients. By understanding client needs and delivering tailored solutions, you will improve customer satisfaction and foster long-term partnerships. Through strategic account planning and execution, you will help improve Cisco's visibility and reputation in the market. You will serve as a vital link between customers and internal teams, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration to meet client objectives. By providing insights from customer interactions and market trends, you will contribute to the development and refinement of effective sales strategies.
Responsibilities
- Manage a growth target for an assigned territory using a channel go-to-market distribution model.
- Target market opportunities by segment and use available resources to aggressively pursue opportunities.
- Show sales penetration within a target account list.
- Build strong relationships with customers.
- Identify new sales opportunities and expand relationships with existing clients.
- Improve customer satisfaction and foster long-term partnerships by understanding client needs and delivering tailored solutions.
- Improve Cisco's visibility and reputation in the market through strategic account planning and execution.
- Serve as a vital link between customers and internal teams, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration to meet client objectives.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of effective sales strategies by providing insights from customer interactions and market trends.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience selling, prospecting and growing an account base.
- Hunter and cultivator; self-starter who builds lasting and trusted relationships with our clients.
- Excellent track record of success leading a large territory, demand generation, partner development, strategic account planning, forecasting, quota attainment, communicating business transformational solutions via sales presentations, short-term, mid-term, and long-term opportunity management.
- Ability to deliver business value to both End Users and Partners.
- Strong technical and business knowledge with complimentary skills to understand the customers’ business drivers and then align them to Cisco solutions.
- Skills to negotiate issues with peers, partners and customers using a Win/Win philosophy.
- Ambitious self-starter with ability to articulate Cisco product and business strategies, and create the demand to complete the deal.
- Possess passion, integrity, trust, leadership, discipline and execution.
Skills
- Sales
- Prospecting
- Account Growth
- Demand Generation
- Partner Development
- Strategic Account Planning
- Forecasting
- Quota Attainment
- Sales Presentations
- Opportunity Management
- Negotiation
- Technical Knowledge
- Business Knowledge
- Communication
Location
- Syracuse
- Albany
- Rochester
- Fairfield County (CT)
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $236,900.00 - $308,300.00
- $256,100.00 - $374,900.00
- $236,900.00 - $373,000.00
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- Flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
- Performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
About the Company
- At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond.
- We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.
- These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
- Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions.
- Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.
- We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
- Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
- We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
