# Public Sector Sales Account Executive

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

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## Description

Our public sector sales team in Sweden serves as the primary engine for driving technological advancement across the nation's critical infrastructure.

Manage a defined set of public sector accounts in Sweden, serving as the primary influencer for critical purchasing decisions and long-term infrastructure strategy.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 7 years of related work experience in technology sales.

- Demonstrated experience in managing the full sales lifecycle, from prospecting and qualification through to proposal and contract closure.

- Proven track record of managing sales funnels and creating accurate weekly, monthly, and quarterly sales forecasts within CRM systems.

- Experience in consultative selling, specifically in identifying customer business goals and aligning them with complex technical solutions.

- Full professional proficiency in both Swedish and English languages.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Deep expertise in core secure networking technologies, including switching, wireless, routing, firewall solutions, and Compute/AI infrastructure.

- Strong executive presence with experience engaging and influencing C-suite leaders and senior public sector stakeholders.

- Ability to interpret market trends and competitive landscapes to provide strategic recommendations to internal and external partners.

- Exceptional negotiation skills, with a focus on balancing complex public sector pricing, service levels, and contractual commitments.

- Demonstrated growth mindset with a history of driving cross-architecture collaboration to solve intricate customer challenges.

## Skills

### Required
- technology sales
- consultative selling
- CRM systems
- Swedish
- English

### Nice to have
- core secure networking technologies
- switching
- wireless
- routing
- firewall solutions
- Compute/AI infrastructure
- executive presence
- negotiation skills

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