Sales Specialist, Collaboration

  • Location:
    Mumbai, India
  • Area of Interest
    Sales - Services, Solutions, Customer Success
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Cloud and Data Center
  • Job Id
    1419919

Communication needs to be agile. Mobile. Collective. The Collaboration portfolio makes instant communications and live meetings possible.

Product Sales Specialist - Collaboration & Cloud Communication needs to be agile. Mobile. Collective. The Collaboration portfolio makes instant communications and live meetings possible. It gives people a better way to create, share and to together through a deeply integrated set of industry leading communications tools and APIs for an unmatched collaboration experience that only the Cisco cloud can deliver. Our mission is to help customers and partners to migrate to this new collaborative platform.

Our mission is to help partner and customers to migrate to this new platform.

What You'll do

You have the right energy, ambitious spirit, personal drive, and past success in Sales to join the Collaboration Sales Team! In this highly visible and high impact role of Cloud Sales you will: Be responsible for forecasting and reporting business opportunities as well as building and maintaining your business pipeline Drive pipeline creation through multiple activities such as, targeted workshops, events, seminars, etc.

In this highly visible role as a cloud-focused software DevOps role you will:

  • Forecasting and reporting the business, building the pipeline for the future
  • You will participate in the creation of a technical account plan and actively generate leads through customer meetings, seminars, and education.
  • Conduct high-level conversations with C and VP level Executives to address business needs
  • Develop a thorough understanding of customer requirements and guide them on the journey from complex on-prem collaboration to simplified cloud collaboration
  • Develop and maintain business within existing accounts, lead complex sales situations and sales campaigns
  • Establish a strong relationship with Cisco Account Managers and extended Team. Build and execute a joint business plan for your assigned area
  • Develop and cultivate strong relationships with key customers and partners, both IT and LoBs decision makers
  • Partner with other Product Sales teams to align horizontal solutions with key accounts
  • Assume a leadership role utilizing field experiences in developing next generation solutions both alone and with partners
  • assist account teams in demo and presenting our amazing solution to customer, including ROI and value proposition

Who you'll work with

Come help us drive video and collaborative communications in the cloud and become a part of the dynamic Collaboration Technology Group. Our team is passionate about driving simplified collaboration to the cloud and continuing to lead the market in the single best collaborative experience.

Who You Are

Do you love a challenge and want to drive technology innovation globally? Are you a thinker, a creator, a leader, a maker? Are you a quota carrying achiever who consistently delivers against your forecast and goals? Is landing a new customer and closing the big deal what you wake up for every single 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 product positioning expertise and extraordinary closing skills, and a positive, hard-working attitude, then Cisco Collaboration is where you belong.

You will have:

  • A minimum of 8 years selling experience in either sales or sales engineering with a demonstration of over-achievement in demanding environments.
  • Experience SaaS selling required. And exposure to video or web conferencing solutions is a plus
  • Demonstrated excellence in Presentations skill with ability to build relevant, critical messaging
  • Consistent track record of closed sales, client satisfaction, & team work
  • Business forecasting, pipeline development skills
  • Prior experience of structuring Enterprise agreements is preferred
  • Familiar with APIs and workflows is preferred
  • Prior experience selling cloud solutions preferred
  • Proven ability to understand and interact with senior level management CXO levels
  • Experienced with Strategic Account Planning and Consultative Sales
  • Ability to craft collaboration solutions and to articulate business benefits of those solutions
  • Excellent communication, presentation and demonstration skills is required
  • Fast running self-starter with a senior approach and excellent relationship building abilities

Why Cisco

The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at 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, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers, and we are doers.

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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