# UK Education Sales

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Our UK Education team is at the heart of digital transformation in academia. We partner with universities to bridge the gap between complex networking infrastructure and the future of learning, ensuring that the technology powering research and campus life is secure, scalable, and resilient.

You will act as the primary partner for a defined set of UK University accounts, driving growth and long-term success. You’ll be the bridge between our cutting-edge secure networking solutions (switching, routing, wireless, and firewall) and the unique business goals of your customers.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Relationship Management: Build and maintain deep, long-term partnerships with stakeholders and C-suite executives across UK Universities.

- Account Orchestration: Lead complex deal cycles and coordinate cross-portfolio resources to solve unique customer challenges.

- Strategic Growth: Proactively identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling, ensuring our solutions align with the customer’s long-term roadmap.

- Technical Sales: Collaborate with Portfolio Solution Engineers to deliver impactful demonstrations and competitive positioning.

- Operational Rigor: Maintain accurate funnel data in CRM tools, manage sales forecasts, and drive business through the full lifecycle to meet revenue commitments.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Proven track record of effectively influencing C-suite executives.

- Demonstrated thought leadership in digital transformation, emerging technology trends, and innovation.

- Solid understanding of the Cisco product portfolio and experience selling complex solutions at a senior level.

- Strong ability to manage complex sales cycles and navigate internal and external stakeholder requirements.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- 4+ years of experience in sales excellence.

- Expertise in driving demand generation and developing sustainable business relationships.

- A blend of technical and business acumen,you understand how technology serves as a key driver for customer business outcomes.

- Advanced negotiation skills with a focus on win/win outcomes for peers, partners, and customers.

## Skills

### Required
- Cisco product portfolio
- complex sales
- digital transformation
- emerging technology trends
- innovation
- relationship management
- account orchestration
- strategic growth
- technical sales

### Nice to have
- sales excellence
- demand generation
- sustainable business relationships
- technical and business acumen
- advanced negotiation skills

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