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Meet the Team

Our Worldwide Sales Communications team is a focused, fast-paced, and adaptable group, always seeking fun and creative ideas to drive our mission forward. As a key member of our vibrant communications community, you will partner closely with Sales leaders and teams. This role offers extensive collaboration opportunities with many others across the company, contributing to a dynamic and impactful environment. If you're passionate about crafting compelling narratives and thrive in a setting where your creative strategies directly influence global sales success, you'll find unparalleled opportunities for impact here. 

We are a highly collaborative team that actively supports each other's growth and success, fostering an environment where every voice is valued. Join us to be at the forefront of innovative communication, working alongside a supportive team dedicated to excellence and continuous growth.

Your Impact

You are a strategic problem solver with exceptional storytelling and interpersonal skills, able to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives for diverse audiences. Collaborating with senior executives and cross-functional teams, you’ll ensure messaging is consistent and impactful and play a key role in our transformation story. Your expertise in communications strategy, measurement, and program management, along with your superior leadership presence and collaborative spirit, will help evolve and elevate our communications approach.

You are a transformational storyteller at heart and are curious about what is happening in the technology industry and around the world. You have experience in building strong relationships with a highly matrixed group of collaborators. You demonstrate an excellent understanding and thinking across multiple communications fields, as well as a strong knowledge of the business and broader global affairs. You have experience advising/working directly with senior executives, are a strong collaborator, and can partner globally across a mix of constituents and organizations. You bring an innovative approach that is digital savvy. You are a self-starter who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo or address the “tough questions.”

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive communications strategy supporting the Global Sales organization and its business priorities.
• Develop key messages for target audiences and channels.
• Drive messaging alignment, ensuring consistency and clarity across all internal sales communications.
• Build and deliver compelling executive communications content, including keynotes, presentations, talking points, social media content, blogs and announcements that communicate the executive’s vision, voice and key messages.
• Provide strategic counsel on effective communication strategies and best practices and develop the rising communications talent on this team and in our community.
• Partner closely with the EVP, Global Sales and Chief Sales Officer and their Chief of Staff to shape their communication style, develop key messages, and prepare for important internal and external engagements.
• Develop and implement internal communication plans to ensure the EVP effectively engages and inspires the employees. This includes creating regular updates, newsletters, and town hall meetings to cultivate transparency and alignment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure effective communication of initiatives, launches, and updates.
• Measure the effectiveness of communications initiatives, using feedback and analytics to continuously improve impact.
• Stay current on industry trends, product launches, and sales priorities to ensure communications are timely and relevant.
• Manage and maintain a communication calendar that aligns with key business milestones and sales motions.
• Utilize Cisco’s AI tools to both understand the business to inform messaging and communications priorities as well as write, edit, and refine communications collateral.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of related experience and a bachelor’s degree in communications, business administration, or related field
• 7+ years internal/external communications in a variety of areas such as organizational communications, executive communications, and public relations
• Ability to travel (10-20%) (domestic and international)

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of sales strategies and customer value drivers, with a proven ability to craft communications that support business growth and strengthen customer relationships.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-driven tools and methodologies to enhance executive communications, and a passion for advocating AI adoption and best practices across teams.
• Expertise in translating sophisticated technology, business, and product topics into impactful executive communications and strategic narratives
• Proven record of driving thought leadership and influence senior executives and cross-functional teams
• Outstanding writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
• Strong business insight with a talent for simplifying complexity
• Ability to build high impact, audience-driven messages
• High attention to detail and ownership of deliverables
• Track record of delivering projects effectively under tight deadlines

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.