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MEET THE TEAM
Join Cisco's dynamic Services & Software Sales team, passionate about driving innovative solutions for our customers. We are a collaborative group of consultative sales experts who work together to deliver exceptional business outcomes. Our team is passionate about enabling customer success, using Cisco's world-class portfolio of services & buying programs to meet evolving business needs.
What You’ll Do
As an Account Executive, Services & Software Buying Programs, you will be the driving force behind our comprehensive services and software sales strategy in the Quebec focusing on sales to the Quebec Public Sector.
You will play a key role in redefining how our customers achieve their business goals through Cisco's Lifecycle Services, Premium Services, and Software Enterprise Agreements. This role blends your expertise in services and software with strategic relationship-building to drive revenue and create lasting customer value.
This role offers a unique opportunity to lead innovative sales strategies, work with an outstanding team, and make a meaningful impact on Cisco's customers and their success.
Responsibilities:
Lead the sales of Services and Buying Program solutions, focusing on Lifecycle, Professional & Premium Services upsell, Enterprise Agreements.
Drive revenue by identifying, pricing, and closing multi-architecture enterprise agreements and growing Premium Services offerings.
Educate and mentor account teams on enterprise agreements, software consumption models, and services value propositions.
Manage contract/legal negotiations and internal approvals while aligning portfolio positioning with customer needs.
Develop trusted customer relationships and provide consultative solutions tailored to their business outcomes, financial needs, and long-term objectives.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales Engineers, Legal, Finance, and Partners to create and implement winning strategies.
Maintain accurate pipeline and forecast updates while driving timely execution of customer-facing activities.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
7+ years of proven experience in Services and/or Software sales, with a strong track record of exceeding quotas, with a preference for success in Public Sector sales.
Expertise in lifecycle services, professional services, as well as enterprise software agreements.
Strategic attitude with experience transitioning sales motions from hardware to software while using services to deliver business outcomes.
Strong understanding of industry-specific drivers and strategic imperatives.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Outstanding consultative selling and financial solution skills tailored to unique customer challenges.
Consistent track record to build positive relationships with diverse buyer personas, including C-level executives.
Strong communication and presentation skills to tailor messages to various audiences.
Tenacious with a passion for exceeding sales goals.
BA/BS degree in technology, marketing, or management
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.
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.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$287,300.00 - $423,200.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$263,500.00 - $404,100.00* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.