Partner Marketing Manager - KSA based

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  • Location:
    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Area of Interest
    Marketing and Communications
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    *None
  • Job Id
    1443388

Join Cisco KSA Marketing Team for a dynamic role where you will work closely with our channel and sales team and our channel community.

Who You Are

If you love Marketing and working with partners and know what you're talking about, are curious about how other companies operate and how two companies can work together, and want to work in an enormous - and highly creative - organisation, this could be the job for you.

This position requires a full understanding of how to apply Cisco’s marketing strategies effectively to drive business growth and work along with our channel partners to achieve results.

  • You are a Marketer with 3+ years of experience preferably in IT field
  • Your natural working style is to be inclusive and communicative.
  • You are happy to take the lead on a project or initiative, and you love working in a team. You don't mind who reports to whom. You want to get the job done and enjoy doing it.
  • You are comfortable building business relationships, and communicating at all levels - both at Cisco and our partners.
  • You know that there are some parts of your job that just have to be done, and administration is just one of those things.
  • You've probably worked in the Technology industry.

What You'll Do

  • Creation of channel marketing plans to ensure alignment of all marketing strategy and priorities
  • Manage partners marketing budget and their plans.
  • Support and Guidance of partners execution and ensuring marketing budget/activities are driving the right ROI
  • Ensure operational excellence in all demand generation activities and marketing activity – this will involve deep collaboration with all internal stakeholders to ensure activity is measurable and supports company goals.
  • Train and mentor our partners to execute a high-touch, highly-personalized Account Based Marketing strategy with tactics beyond just events but encompassing the full stack of marketing activities.
  • Provide oversight and follow-through to ensure leads generated are qualified and flow through the inside sales organization to our sales teams.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in channel marketing
  • Proven experience with channel partners in tech field.
  • Experience with Account based marketing.
  • English and Arabic Speaker

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with tech events.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

Why Cisco?

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.

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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