IoT Product Sales Specialist Japan

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  • Location:
    Minato, Japan
  • Area of Interest
    Sales - Product
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Internet of Everything
  • Job Id
    1403285

IOT Sales Specialist


What You'll Do


Does selling IoT excite you?  Are you an experienced sales professional wanting to be part of an industry leading solution sales team at the world’s top IoT technology provider?  As an IoT Sales Specialist, you will play a key role on the Cisco sales team, selling innovative end-to-end solutions to our customers.  Your role will be selling our Industrial IOT Portfolio in Cisco’s Japan Theatre.


Who You'll Work With


You, as an IoT Sales Specialist within Cisco's Global Specialists team, will lead the sales motion by working collaboratively with Cisco account teams, channel partners, and end customers to grow IoT sales revenue.  You will also work with Cisco’s product management, industry solutions teams and other stakeholders to drive strategy and deliver results.


Who You Are


Do you love a challenge and want to drive technology innovation globally?  Are you a thinker, a creator, a hunter, a leader, a maker?  Does connecting everything - from things to systems to people – for the betterment of the planet excite you?  Are you a quota carrying overachiever who consistently delivers against your forecast and goals?  Is landing a new customer and closing the big deal what you wake up for every 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 solutions/product positioning expertise and exceptional closing skills, a positive, hard-working attitude, and you enjoy and celebrate success as a team-player, then Cisco IoT Sales is where you belong. 


Required Skills: 

  • You have a strong IoT background managing large, complex, technology sales requiring C-level executive support
  • You have a passion for how technology can enable customer's business and generate new outcomes
  • You have carried a quota and consistently met/exceeded your forecast
  • You are comfortable speaking in front of large audiences which will include a mix of technologists, thought leaders, and industry professionals.
  • You have experience in selling industrial networking, wireless, industrial security, cloud, analytics, and other relevant IOT use cases
  • You have experience working in an overlay sales role and thrive on customer success and business outcomes helping account teams build relations with both IT and OT
  • You have experience selling through channel partners
  • You have cross industry experience having participated in digitization conversations with Line of Business - in particular in Energy (Power Utilities and Oil & Gas), Transportation, Manufacturing verticals
  • You have experience in providing business visibility to management as well as field stakeholders with forecasting, planning, regular business reviews
  • You have solid understanding of Cisco Sales Plays.
  • You are efficient selling remotely or in-person and traveling up to 50% of the time
  • Strong background and proven track record dealing with strategic customers in Japan.

Desired Skills:

  • IOT Expert who has worked for 5+ years selling IOT hardware and software platforms
  • Direct sales/account management experience at Cisco, or one of our partners or competitors
  • Strong working knowledge of the industrial networking
  • Solid understanding/experience selling Cisco Validated Designs
  • Experience working in multi-cultural environments

Why 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 thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. Do you have tattoos? It’s totally cool to show off your ink! We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.  Be you, be with us!


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 Cisco is an equal opportunity employer.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. 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. 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, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

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 pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate 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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