# Technical Sales Professional

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Nairobi, Kenya
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will partner with account managers to drive strategic deals in the midsize and above market for Cisco.

These segments have a balance of large customers across commercial, service provider, and public sector, and is a dynamic and extremely fast-paced environment.

You will act as a customer-focused technical sales professional who provides technical information and guidance in a dedicated manner.

Directly accountable for specific business opportunities across the Cisco portfolio and across all architectures in a technology stack.

You will be responsible for leading customers towards a strategic engagement and finding new ways to expand Cisco's foothold while fighting off the competition.

The expectation is that you will use Cisco technology to balance in-person and virtual meetings with stakeholders, customers, and partners.

**Responsibilities**

- Previous technical sales experience as pre-sales systems engineer or solutions engineer of at least 3 years experience

- Proven experience in carrying and achieving large sales quotas

- Some form of industry-relevant certifications are preferred and strongly encouraged

- Ability to demonstrate a software sales background and software architectural knowledge

- Self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and ability to assess a problem and figure out an effective course of action with minimal guidance

- Demonstrated experience in data-driven decision making and technical sales strategy creation

- Willing to interact daily with multinational stakeholders in either language

- Fluency in an additional widely spoken language in EMEAR is always a plus

- General knowledge across multiple Cisco architectures while maintaining CCNP on one of Cisco's major solutions in the midsize space (EN, Cloud/DC, Collab, Security)

- Degree in physical sciences, engineering, or mathematics

- High emotional intelligence and a strong focus on soft-skills development

- Ability to navigate between organisational levels, breaking silos binding people to work together

**Benefits**

- Coaching, training, and on-the-job learning to support career advancement

- Innovative, flexible, and award-winning working environment using the latest Cisco technologies

- Opportunity to work with a dynamic and multicultural team

- Flexibility to drive projects you are passionate about

## Skills

### Required
- Cisco
- technical sales
- software sales
- software architecture
- problem-solving
- data-driven decision making

### Nice to have
- industry-relevant certifications
- fluency in an additional widely spoken language in EMEAR

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