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Partner Account Manager- Strategic Partners.

Partner Account Manager- Strategic Partners.

CiscoNew Delhi, India
30+ days ago
Job description

What You'll Do

As a member of the Cisco Strategic Partner Sales Team, you will be responsible for growing the overall Cisco business in line with Cisco priorities & managing executive relationships / engagements, maintaining a strong governance and growing Cisco wallet share with the strategic partners. You will work closely with the cross functional teams on both sides to draw and implement the business plan (IPP). You will need to drive pivotal initiatives across Cisco business segments, architectures & solutions with focus on growing the bookings across Cisco hardware, software and services portfolios.

The job focus areas are

  • Drive your partners through market transition with primary aim of increasing their contribution to Cisco India business
  • Based on business outcomes contribute to create offers that optimize their profitability
  • Enable them to sell and support Cisco Architectures / Solutions
  • Be the advocate of both Cisco and your partner
  • Growing software and service sales
  • Drive lifecycle practice building along with customer success and renewals
  • Manage executive relationship and effectively resolve any conflicts / escalations.

Who You'll Work With

Cisco India partner sales organization faces growth as it collectively works to change the way the world works, lives and plays. To fuel this growth, we are looking to identify dedicated sales professionals who want to join us in our efforts to create tomorrow's Cisco.

As a member of the Partner community of India , you will share our values of trust, authenticity, fairness, audacity and friendship. Our business days are ruled by hard work, meaningful collaboration and good fun.

Who You Are

  • 8-12 years of experience in Sales, Business Development, or Partner Alliance management.
  • Drive strategic alignment between Partners & Cisco’s Sales Teams to maximize success.
  • Knowledge of networking and IT. Cisco knowledge preferred
  • Understand key industry trends & dynamics and driving the partners with GTM strategies and execution with strong governance.
  • Work with Cisco's Partners to develop and grow a profitable business focused on Cisco Solutions
  • Strong eye for business including financial, management and operational capabilities
  • Strong negotiating and influencing skills
  • Executive presence and the ability to engage at the executive level of all organizations
  • Ability to collaborate with local, regional and corporate teams in a large cross-functional organization across time zones.
  • Proven ability to respond and manage challenges in a fast-moving business environment.
  • Highly analytical and experienced in utilizing business intelligence data to drive informed business decisions
  • Ability to jump in and solve complex business operations issues with multiple stake holders