Product Sales Specialist - Data Centre at Cisco Nigeria

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We are recruiting for the position below:

Job Title: Product Sales Specialist - Data Centre

Requisition #: R981782
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Category: Sales

Job Description
The Business Entity:

• Cisco Sales is all about Inspiring Dreams, Accelerating Growth, Connecting Worlds, Recognizing Wins, Respect and Enabling you to be your best. Does this sound intriguing to you? Welcome to Cisco.

The Team:

• Cisco’s Data Center portfolio with UCS, the Unified Compute System combined with Cisco Unified Fabric offers a robust platform for Data Center Virtualization, Next Generation Data Center, Private and Public Cloud as well as VDI infrastructure just to name some of the key market targets.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for the building and executing the business plan to accelerate the sales of Cisco Data Center products, in NIGERIA.

Role & Responsibilities

• This is a great opportunity to join Cisco’s Data Center NIGERIA Sales organization and apply your expertise, sales acumen and leadership skills in a role that has high visibility and impact. This is a quota-carrying sales role and the candidate will be driving the sales of Cisco’s Data Center Products in NIGERIA.
• Carries Sales Quota for Cisco’s Data Center business NIGERIA.
• Work in partnership with Country sales team to drive business.
• Establish and maintain excellent relationships with Regional Manager of each segments.
• Work with Channel partners in country and help them plan and execute the UCS element of the Data Center sales plan.
• Work with the channel team to increase partner coverage in all UCS market segments.
• Work with Marketing and Business Development teams to launch sales initiatives to increase pipeline.
• Work with Channels management team to drive sales programs with Channel Partners.
• Demonstrate business transformation and solution-selling approach.
• Demonstrate executive relevance, and have ability to position complex solutions at senior IT and CxO level, including Data Center Virtualization, Private Cloud, VDI, RISC Migration, SAP ERP and HANA
• Demonstrate influence over Customer's & Partner’s strategy/behaviour.
• Demonstrate clear awareness of the Data Center market pressures & trends and transitions.
• Understand and articulate Cisco’s vision, strategy and architectural approach to Data Center and specifically UCS
• This role will report to the Lead for Data Center for Africa.

Desired Skills

• Minimum 5- 7 years experience in Data Center, Server ,or application networking industries
• Data Center Application is a plus
• Proven track record in leading and winning major Server business.
• Demonstrated success in launching & executing of Sales Programs with Channel partners.
• Experienced in multi-level selling and comfortable in influencing CxOs, Data Center Managers, IT Managers, etc
• Understand, articulate and position Cisco’s UCS vision both internally and externally.
• Familiarity with Cisco Unified Compute solutions will be a bonus.
• Familiarity with Cisco UCS and Server and specifically x86 competitors like HP, IBM, DELL, Fujitsu, NEC and Hitachi is highly desired.
• Ability to work unsupervised and lead Sales engagements with Cisco’s Data Center partners for UCS business.
• Candidate should have excellent written and verbal communications skills as well as good listening and strong presentation skills
• Strong team player and ability to lead a multi-functional virtual team.
• Open for changes and has ability to adapt to Cisco’s culture

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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