# Technical Sales Professional

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

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## Description

As a Technical Sales Professional at Cisco, you will own the technical relationship with customers and partners, serving as a trusted technical advisor and Cisco brand ambassador.

You will work closely with account teams and cross-functional sales teams to understand customer business priorities, translate them into technical requirements, and design and present relevant Cisco solutions.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Developing and refining technical sales approaches aligned to clearly defined customer and partner requirements

- Building strong knowledge of Cisco's portfolio and progressively developing specialization within a technical domain

- Owning technical relationships with customers and partners, engaging with IT teams, business stakeholders, decision-makers, and implementers

- Analyzing customer environments, business requirements, market trends, and competitive positioning to identify and shape opportunities

- Translating customer and partner business needs into technical requirements and recommending appropriate Cisco solutions

- Contributing to customer account planning, solution design, demand generation, and enablement activities

- Identifying opportunities to expand Cisco's portfolio across areas such as networking, security, observability, and collaboration

- Leading technical engagements, presentations, demonstrations, and solution discussions tailored to specific customer scenarios

- Using market trends and competitive insights to effectively position Cisco solutions and support competitive displacement

- Collaborating with account teams, business entities, sales teams, partners, and other internal resources to drive customer success

- Managing and coordinating virtual technical support resources throughout the sales cycle

- Providing feedback to business entities and relevant sales teams on strategic customer needs, market opportunities, and competitive trends

- Sharing best practices and contributing to the development of technical and educational materials

- Adapting workflows and approaches to effectively respond to changing customer and business requirements

The minimum qualifications for this role are:

- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 3+ years of related experience

- Experience in a technical sales, solutions engineering, pre-sales, or related customer-facing technical role

- Experience understanding customer business and technical requirements and translating them into technology solutions

- Experience delivering technical presentations, demonstrations, or solution discussions to customers or partners

- Experience working collaboratively with sales, technical, and cross-functional teams throughout a sales cycle

Preferred qualifications include:

- Strong knowledge of enterprise technology solutions and experience developing expertise within a technical domain

- Experience with Cisco technologies and/or enterprise networking, security, observability, or collaboration solutions

- Understanding of competitive technology landscapes and experience positioning solutions against competitors

- Strong customer engagement, presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills

- Ability to navigate complex customer organizations and build relationships with technical and business decision-makers

## Skills

### Required
- technical sales
- solutions engineering
- pre-sales
- customer-facing technical role
- enterprise technology solutions

### Nice to have
- Cisco technologies
- enterprise networking
- security
- observability
- collaboration solutions
- competitive technology landscapes

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