Leader, Regional Sales Vimercate

Leader, Regional Sales
Vimercate
Lombardia, Vimercate

The Business Entity

Cisco Security delivers intelligent cybersecurity for the real world, providing one of the industry's most comprehensive advanced threat protection portfolio that is integrated, pervasive, continuous and open.

Cisco's threat-centric approach to security reduces complexity while providing unmatched visibility, continuous control and advanced threat protection across the entire attack continuum - before, during and after an attack.

The Team

Global Security Sales Organization (GSSO) is taking big steps to position Cisco as the #1 IT Security provider in the industry.

In addition to having the right market conditions, capabilities, products and services, we need the right people to take us there.

Role & Responsibilities

This is a Manager level position responsible for leading and executing against Cybersecurity Sales goals for Italy in the Security Sales organization.

The Security Sales Lead for Italy will lead an organization and management team responsible for country.

The Security Leader must possess excellent collaboration skills and will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a strong business partnership with senior leaders across the Cisco sales teams, Cross-Architectural Leaders, Channels and Commercial, Services, Marketing and PR, and other related teams.

- Responsible for Identifying, developing and implementing key initiatives that align with EMEAR's GSSO Strategy & Execution Priorities

- Go to Market Sales Model - Leading /coaching teams through transformation with Account Planning/Opportunity Identification, Business Relevant / Customer Value Selling, Business Disciplines, Challenger Sales Strategy

- Financial Performance - Exceeding bookings goal (by geography, architecture and vertical), leading opex goal, and maintaining forecast accuracy; providing visibility and in depth knowledge into numbers (customer insights, macro/micro trends, consumption models)

- Team Development - Attracting, developing and retaining high performance Account Team talent (career development, coaching, performance management and hiring).

- One Winning Team Engagement and Leading Change - Strategically leading and influencing your own team along with a coordinated cross-functional team including the Customer Value Acceleration Team, Services, Capital, Partners, Advanced Technology teams (Collaboration, Enterprise Networks, Data Center), Marketing, and others.

- Focusing on contributing to the long term success of Cisco's Security and Central Sales organisations by being a collaborative leader amongst your peers.

Consistently striving to improve and reinvent yourself.

- The Security Leader will be expected to strategically drive Cisco's end-to-end vision for our customers, as well as maintain an in-depth understanding of competitive conditions, industry practices, market opportunities, and customer requirements.

- Inclusive of its global responsibilities, this is the one of the largest, most visible, and complex roles within Cisco's sales organization, aligned to the company's #1 priority: Security

- This key leadership role will continue the development of our sales delivery model through the capability development of our highly hardworking and motivated sales organization.

- Setting a vision and building strategic business decision-making capability to the next level will be a major factor for success in this position.

Minimum Qualifications

- 5+ years in management roles selling solutions to senior executives at large accounts

- Demonstrated track record leading significant revenue responsibility and or profit/loss center and overachieving targets to meet stretch goals

- Demonstrated ability to provide thought leadership, think strategically and effectively communicate vision (both written and verbal) and influence cross-functionally.

- Adept at balancing driven short-term pressures with overall long-term goals.

- Strong executive presence, polish, and political savvy Excellent communication skills and ability to persuade

- using simple communications that convey complex concepts in a compelling, concise, and creative way.

- Demonstrated ability to build and lead in a matrix-managed team culture.

- Proficient in Italian and English

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

U. S.

employees have **access** to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a