What You'll Do

Ever wondered what it would be like to immerse yourself in the ocean of major technology disruptions in the world today? What if you could be rewarded for being at the epicenter of helping drive industry vertical sales of one of the largest pioneers of the Internet on our planet, shaping the future through connecting the previously unconnected?

As a dynamic technical leader, you will be providing technical direction and business guidance across the Middle East, Global Virtual Engineering (GVE) and driving business impact through technology solutions and ecosystem partners. You will work with internal and external stakeholders in order to drive technology, services, and software adoption, business relevance, contributing to building a strong business network. You will be responsible for GVE's industry vertical thought leadership, translating this for business relevancy (across GVE, GVS&CS, and Cisco), and continually seeking innovative methods for improving your vertical's performance and overall impact. You will use Cisco technology to stay virtually connected with team members, customers and peers using collaboration tools and processes.

Who You'll Work With

You will be part of one of Cisco's fastest growing, disruptive, and innovative sales teams and the talent engine for Cisco Sales. We serve our customer's life-cycle through a series of selling motions (Land, Adopt, Expand, Renewal, and Services) in order to drive higher value and an optimal experience from Cisco solutions. Your stakeholders will include GVE, GVS&CS, Business Entities, WW Systems Engineering, GPO, and WW Field Sales.

The Global Virtual Engineering team within the Global Virtual Sales and Customer Success (GVS&CS) organization is a dynamic and multicultural team that consistently delivers technology sales enablement therefore contributing to profitable growth. Within this trusted team you can share best practices, your ideas, feel supported by your colleagues, challenge the status quo, be innovative, and have the flexibility to drive projects you are passionate about.

We connect Cisco customers with solutions that can transform their businesses and change the world for the better. You will have a significant impact in how customers are driving value from these solutions and technology offers.

We will provide you with a platform for success including: coaching, training and on-the-job learning that will strongly support you in your career advancement.

You will discover an innovative, flexible and award-winning working environment using the latest Cisco technologies to enable and empower you to perform to the very best of your abilities. Our teams can adapt quickly to respond to market changes and are highly encouraged to give back to our local communities.

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Who You Are

Are you a people-focused technical sales professional with a broad knowledge of Cisco and/or relevant industry products, solutions, technologies, software and related programs? Do you have the ability to own the room when talking about industry vertical solutions? Do you demonstrate strong executive presence, act as an evangelist, have the ability to win hearts and minds (influencer), and add energy and confidence to your key interactions? Are you able to represent GVE (overall) as well as industry vertical thought leadership at any level from IC to Senior Leadership? Do you love facilitating communications and understanding requirements from customers, partners, sales, and engineering teams?

If you are a guru in translating technology vision, strategy and goals into a compelling value proposition for the team, then we want you!

Our minimum requirements for this role:

• 5+ years of Vertical Specific Experience in Opportunities such as Manufacturing, Finance, Sports & Entertainment, Healthcare, Education, Government, Energy and/or Transportation

• Passionate about the rapidly evolving world of Healthcare and Education and experience with Application Ecosystem Vendors in bringing multi-vendor solutions to market

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

• Bring energy and experience in presenting to colleagues on complex topics and skills

• Can navigate between organizational levels breaking silos and finding opportunities to collaborate between groups.

• People oriented, interested and skilled in growing talent & team, able to work with early in careers as well as experienced specialists

• Regional Relevance (ie. Regulatory requirements)

• Excellent written and verbal communication, listening and strong presentation skills

• Strong problem solving skills: ability to assess a problem and figure out an effective course of action. Ready to take on calculated risks.

Why Cisco?

We connect everything securely: 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, and pop culture aficionados. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

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