Partner Business Development Specialist

**What You'll Do**:
You will develop and lead the Cloud & AI Infrastructure business with multiple large Cisco Partners. Your primary responsibility is the development and ongoing support of the following key business initiatives between our Partners and Cisco: executive relationships, practice building, field alignment/engagement, partner enablement, partner profitability, sales training, pipeline development, opportunity identification (sales mentoring, strategic sales calls, outbound calling etc.), marketing and demand generation, and coordination of cross-functional activity.

**Who You'll Work With**:
The Cloud + AI Infrastructure team delivers one scalable strategy with local execution for data center customer transformation and growth. We are the worldwide go-to-market compute and data center networking engine assembling market transitions and engaging with sellers to fuel growth for customers and Cisco. Alongside our colleagues, Cloud & AI Infrastructure builds the sales strategy, activates sellers and technical communities, and accelerates selling every single day. A successful Cloud + AI Account Executive will work with Cisco Account Managers, Systems Engineers, Technical Leaders, Sales Managers and Partners to plan sales strategies, develop proposals, deliver customer presentations/demos, and close the business.

**Who You Are**:
You can demonstrate an ability to excel within a team environment. The ability to develop and sustain virtual teams is essential. You should exhibit strong sales skills, critical thinking, technical acumen within Cisco’s Cloud & AI Infrastructure portfolio and leadership skills.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
- Expertise in two or more data estate workloads like Microsoft’s Data & AI Platform
- Experience in understanding business issues of large CSP, accelerated Computing/ Data Center technology/ Deep learning & machine learning.
- Consistent track record in managing and winning major strategic opportunities
- Experience using CRM software to run sales pipelines and customer relationships.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus.
- Experience engaging with large hyperscalers.
- Track record of growing revenue for new innovative technology-based solutions.
- Experience in multi-level selling, comfortable influencing CxO, IT Managers, Purchasing, etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills
- Must work well in teams and be able to create an outcome where everybody wins
- Experience driving strategies; and has a strong personality with demonstrated leadership skills working in a complex matrix organization
- Ability to handle a long and complex sales cycle

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U.S. employees have **access** to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contr