Service Sales Specialist (SSS) at Cisco

What You'll Do



Your prime responsibility is to sell Cisco’s services to Public Sector and Private Sector (Commercial) in South Africa customers either via Cisco’s channel partners or by directly managing and developing accounts improving Cisco’s turnover and increase customer success. You are also expected to hit personal and team targets and chipping in to the overall profitability, success and positive image of Cisco in the marketplace.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Drive the sales process of Cisco’s services to named public sector accounts in the defined territory
• Become an integral member of the account teams
• Define and align the services sales strategy to improve service and product revenues and customer success across all named accounts
• Be a virtual team leader coordinating activities across departments such as service delivery, service support, business development, service partners, internal legal & finance etc.
• Handling and owning the forecasting process for the named accounts
• Build and maintain relationships with Cisco partners


 

Who You'll Work With
The focus is to find and tackle their most critical problems and help them harness new market opportunities. Cisco anticipate our customers’ needs, as the world shifts in an unprecedented transformation and technology impacts everything.
You will join a highly skilled team of management sales professionals working with Account Managers, Pre-Sales and Technology specialists.
Cisco have nurtured a culture that recognizes our people wins. Be part of the team and help drive the transformation.

Who You Are
If you have experience of selling services or products, HW and Software with background from the IT industry, are a self-starter and believe in performance rewards for exceeding annual sales goals though tight-knit collaboration with partners and internal departments, we have a place for you.

You will be/have

• Enthusiastic and high-energy with strong interpersonal skills
• Consultative, creative and inquisitive approach to problem solving
• Ability to handle and process large amounts of information and simultaneous tasks
• Strong commercial acumen and excellent active listening skills
• Validated negotiation skills
• Experience in consultative selling (minimum 3-5 years sales experience)
• Knowledge network and IT operational best practices desirable
• Credibility/experience around the IT professional services subject matter desirable