Cisco EDGE Solutions Engineer - Lagos - Nigeria

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  • Location:
    Offsite, Lagos, Nigeria
  • Alternate Location
    None
  • Area of Interest
    Business Development
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    *None
  • Job Id
    1439735

Meet the Team

Join the dynamic Cisco EDGE team, encouraging innovation and growth within the Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprise (SMME) sector in Nigeria. We are a hardworking group committed to empowering businesses through technology and education.

Your Impact

As a Cisco EDGE Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in promoting Cisco's incubation program to potential customers, partners, and key collaborators within the Nigerian SMME landscape. You will lead the complete incubation program lifecycle, delivering both sales and technical knowledge to drive business growth and job creation. This exciting role requires a blend of technical expertise, a business approach, and strong communication skills to optimally enable SMME's.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and Manage Incubation Lifecycle Program: Align with Cisco's goals, purpose, and enterprise development objectives to build and lead an effective incubation program.
  • Revenue Generation: Drive revenue generation through the provisioning of efficient and effective enablement programs with SMMEs.
  • Awareness Programs: Plan and implement awareness programs and campaigns to promote the Cisco EDGE program.
  • Brand Monitoring: Monitor brand movement, pricing, and distribution penetration within the SMME market.
  • Event Management: Coordinate industry events, handle invitations, and maintain attendance records.
  • Relationship Management: Develop and maintain strong communication and business relationships with SMMEs, industry partners, and key collaborators.
  • EDGE Center Utilization: Drive the utilization and occupancy of the Cisco EDGE center.
  • Technical Demonstrations: Deliver demonstrations and technical proof of concepts to showcase the value of the Cisco portfolio.
  • Solution Design: Build and review project work, including design recommendations (High Level Design, Low Level Design), implementation plans, and organizational change strategies.
  • Software Skills: Apply software skills and tools to configure, deploy, and troubleshoot Cisco products and solutions.
  • Technical Advisor: Build demonstration capabilities within the SMME's and serve as a trusted technical advisor.
  • Architectural Solutions: Help SMME partner technical sales teams design innovative architectural solutions that drive strategic objectives.
  • Business Reviews: Perform monthly and quarterly business reviews.
  • Feedback Relay: Relay customer feedback to Cisco to improve products and services.
  • General Office Admin: Lead general office tasks, including maintaining a clean and professional workspace and leading demo facilities.
  • Center Management: Own the center's demo bookings and office utilization.
  • Act as the Face of Cisco: Represent Cisco authoritatively at the EDGE center.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • BSc Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
  • 1-3 years of relevant work experience in pre- and post-sales roles.
  • CCDA or CCNP certification.
  • Business architecture design and consulting.
  • Effective written and verbal communication and social skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • CCIE or CCDE certification.
  • Basic knowledge of software programmability, automation, orchestration, and virtualization.
  • Developing presentation skills.
  • Experience working independently and as part of a team.
  • Self-learner and desire to expand Cisco knowledge.

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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