Sd-wan Service Provider Sales Manager Apjc

**Who You'll Work With**:
As part of growth of SD-WAN in the Service Provider space, you will join a dynamic and fun environment to deliver your value to our customers, partners and Cisco. We work hard, play hard and have fun doing it We take pride in our work and our collective success is dependent upon teamwork, both internally and externally, and selling in a matrixed environment requires a customer-first approach all the while establishing an outcome where everybody wins environment for the reseller partner as well as Cisco. Passion, Integrity, Trust, Leadership, Discipline and Execution are our values and we need to ensure our employees possesses these traits.

**What You'll Do**:

- As an SD-WAN Sales Manager in the Service Provider Space, you will be responsible for building and executing the SD-WAN GTM across APJC. You will assume leadership of a growing sales organization, including account executives and matrixed Systems Engineers, to help develop, drive and close complex enterprise SD-WAN deals with regionally headquartered customers.
- Role responsibilities include:

- Set and execute an aggressive customer acquisition strategy to generate accelerated annual growth in bookings for the region
- Maintain key customer and partner executive relationships as well as develop and implement strategies for expanding the customer base
- Conduct weekly forecast meetings. Coach your team of individual contributors on strategies to drive closure.
- Provide detailed and accurate sales forecasting to senior sales leadership
- Manage overall sales process, set appropriate metrics for sales funnel management
- Consistently monitor the sales activity of your team and track the results
- Plan and manage at both the strategic and operational levels
- Ongoing development of sales team, which includes recruiting, hiring and training new reps on the SD-WAN sales process.
- Support direct reports and individual Account Executives by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings or engaging other corporate resources as required.
- Coordinate with global channels leadership to identify, develop and nurture in-region partners
- Provides input to marketing into messaging, positioning, and branding. Refines messaging per market segment and ensures all communications are aligned with approved messaging
- Work closely with theatre and global sales leadership to support sales in a strategic and tactical manner
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills to manage interactions with customers, partners and other important parties
- Who You Are
- 1st line sales management experience leading teams in enterprise strategic sales across APJC
- 8+ year experience in working closely with Service Providers.
- Strong track record of recruiting, developing and retaining a high performing enterprise sales organization.
- Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals.
- 10+ years in enterprise networking and/or WAN optimization sales, selling primarily to the CxO/VP Infrastructure level. Proven track record of building satisfied, loyal and referenceable customers.
- C-suite level presence, excellent presentation and communication skills.
- Proven success working within a matrixed organization and establishing strong relationships across all functions.
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, team-based environments. Highly collaborative and curious with a strong ability to learn and change often and quickly.
- Outstanding leadership qualities, a self-starter attitude and the ability to welcome, receive and action on feedback for continuous improvement.
- Strong operational and analytical abilities.
- Proven record of success in multi-stakeholder sales to IT or a line of business.
- Solid understanding of business value based selling.

**We Are Cisco**:
WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here’s how we do it.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re "old" (30 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. A blockchain company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can’t put us in a box

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

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