Leader-Regional Sales

  • Location:
    Beijing, China
  • Area of Interest
    Business Development
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Service Provider
  • Job Id
    1425643

What You'll Do

You will empower and develop and lead a team of direct and indirect reports including Account Managers, Systems Engineers, and Systems Engineering Managers. You are accountable for an annual booking/revenue quota with significant growth in subsequent years. You will also drive overall growth for the entire Cisco SP segment sales in China and will have overall sales leadership responsibilities for a targeted set of strategic accounts accounting for local and global revenue.

Who You'll Work With

As part of Cisco North sales team, we are an outstanding sales force with a driven focus on finding and solving our customer’s most critical problems and partner with them to bring together and gain market opportunities. 

We constantly seek to reinvent ourselves to stay ahead of the game. We take bold actions and being all in to deliver our commitments to our customers and partners. We empower our team to go beyond and deliver phenomenal value to differentiate ourselves.

Who You Are

You will be expected to strategically drive Cisco's end-to-end vision as well as maintain an in-depth understanding of competitive conditions, industry practices, market opportunities, and customer requirements. This key leadership role will continue the sales delivery model development through the capability development of our highly-skilled, hardworking and motivated sales organization. Setting a vision and building strategic business decision-making capability to the next level will be a key factor for success in this position.

Minimum Qualifications

We are looking for leaders who have the following characteristics and experiences:

  • Consistent and strong record in running and owning significant overall growth of the segment and overachieving targets to meet stretch goals.
  • You are a strong seller with strong experience in closing large, strategic deals in China.
  • Understanding a wide range of Cisco technologies.
  • Business Development and strategy experience required.
  • Proven thought leadership, you think strategically and effectively communicate vision (both written and verbal) and influence cross-functionally.
  • Adept at balancing short-term pressures with overall long-term goals.
  • Strong executive presence, polished, and political savvy
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to persuade -- using simple communications that convey complex concepts in a compelling, concise, and creative way.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and lead in a matrix-managed team culture.
  • Native Chinese language skills and proficiency in English.

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 leaders with vision, tech geeks, and we love to have fun. We are passionate about our customers! We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

We Are Cisco.


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, 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 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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