Guide the execution of our Sales plan and be accountable for driving and achieving strategic goals. Make our goals clear for the team and lay out how you will help them succeed, by connecting personally and committing to make work relevant and fun. Empower the success of a team responsible for new customer acquisition, existing account management, and collaborating with our channel partners to accelerate growth.
- Drive business development, forecast consistently and accurately, and achieve strategic goals by mentoring your team through a full sales cycle from demand creation to closing
- Hire, mentor, and develop a hardworking team to deliver against our sales goals and drive strong internal and external relationships in service of an outstanding customer experience and continued rapid growth.
- Set the tone for the organization: Cultivate a mentality of strong achievement, inclusiveness, collaboration, creativity, and accountability while developing your team.
- Continuously optimize our sales methodology and share standard processes across teams to improve efficiency and focus, enable greater scale, and yield better results.
- Use metrics and data to continually assess both sales performance and talent performance/retention to fully understand underlying drivers and adjust course as needed.
Who You Are
You will be expected to strategically drive Cisco's end-to-end vision for our customers, 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.
- 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 GBA.
- 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 Mandarin language skills and proficiency in English.Cantonese is preferred.
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.