About the Role
Drive Cisco’s future growth by leading engagements across Neocloud (GPUaaS) providers, SaaS Unicorns, and Managed Service Providers. Build strong franchises and a sustainable business with AI infrastructure, connectivity, and over-the-top services for business end customers in Australia. Own the full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting to expanding existing accounts, aligning technical and commercial objectives, and delivering growth.
Responsibilities
- Own and grow Cisco’s business across assigned strategic customers, driving revenue growth and winning new opportunities.
- Build and maintain trusted CxO relationships while aligning Cisco’s value proposition to customer business priorities and challenges.
- Develop and execute integrated account plans by orchestrating cross-functional Cisco resources to deliver customer outcomes.
- Lead customer engagement through strategic marketing, events, and collaboration with engineering, product specialists, and partners.
- Drive commercial excellence through competitive pricing strategies, market intelligence, accurate forecasting, and disciplined pipeline management.
- Understand key technology trends including AI, cloud, networking, managed services, security, and consumption models to identify new business opportunities and shape customer transformation strategies.
Requirements
- 10 - 12 years of technology-related sales experience with a focus on business development in large accounts.
- Outstanding sales experience in the Telco and MSP space with a consistent track record in direct and channel sales, especially in closing large strategic deals.
- Highly motivated and a self-starter with a "hunting spirit" who can develop new opportunities and grow business in multiple technology dimensions with a clear business agenda in sight.
- Excellent at working in teams and comfortable collaborating with local, regional, and corporate teams in a large cross-functional organization.
- Can-do attitude and ability to think in a unique way to contribute creatively towards building solid business pipeline and driving sustainable business.
- Ability to manage a pipeline and forecast opportunities accurately to meet commit.
- Great communicator and excellent at driving solutions in line with industry and local market trends.
- Understanding of the AI, GPU, compute, and storage ecosystem is a plus.
- Experience in sell-to and sell-through sales motions including developing joint GTM models with MSP’s.
- Track record of growing revenue for new innovative technology-based solutions.
- Ability to execute on a business plan to gain market share, build solid relationships with customers and internal constituents.
Skills
- Neocloud
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- AI infrastructure
- fixed wired & wireless connectivity
- Cloud telephony
- SASE
- SSE
- Enterprise sales
- Business development
- Channel sales
- Strategic account management
- Pipeline management
- Forecasting
- Negotiation
- Collaboration
- Communication
- AI
- Cloud
- Networking
- Managed services
- Security
- Consumption models
- GPU
- Compute
- Storage
- Go-to-Market (GTM) models
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10 - 12 years of technology-related sales experience
- Enterprise seller
- Senior executive engagement
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
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.
