What You'll Do
Interested in being challenged and appreciated while embarking in a dynamic career? In an environment where colleagues become friends, where managers actively coach and where creativity and ambition are valued?
The Business Development Representative is a specialized resource which allows for a greater depth of knowledge around Cisco’s architectures. The BDR develops and closes opportunities from qualified leads, working directly with the customer, engineering and partners. Candidates will jump start their Cisco sales career by joining the Demand Response Team, part of the Global Virtual Sales and Engineering organization with opportunity for future growth and promotion.
You will respond to customers who want to interact with Cisco, understand their needs and work with partners to provide solutions. You will work closely with and leverage selected channel partners to maximize new sales opportunities. You will manage sales opportunities while using cutting-edge technologies to remotely interface with customers and leverage new sales models (cloud, services & software) to help customers maximizing their revenue. You’ll manage full sales lifecycle for qualified opportunities and help generate pipeline in all segments of Cisco’s business.
Who You'll Work With
The Global Virtual Sales organization is one of Cisco’s fastest growing sales teams and is the talent engine for Cisco Sales with diverse and motivated teams that consistently deliver profitable growth.
We serve our customers through a series of selling motions to drive higher value and an optimal experience from Cisco solutions to drive relevant business outcomes. We are a global, dynamic team that brings excitement to the sales environment every day. We connect Cisco customers with solutions that can transform their businesses and change the world for the better.
You will discover a creative, flexible and award-winning working environment using the latest Cisco technology to enable and empower you to perform to the very best of your abilities. Our teams adapt to respond to market changes and are all highly encouraged to give back to our local communities.
Who You Are
If you enjoy selling in a changing environment, are goal motivated and believe in performance rewards for exceeding annual sales goals through strong collaboration with partners and internal stakeholders, we have a place for you.
3+ years’ B2B selling experience in similar or adjacent industry, start-up or consultancy company, ideally in sales with tech knowledge
Tech Education background
Experience owning the full sales cycle (developing and closing opportunities, working closely customers and/or partners
Passionate about Sales and building positive relationships with customers
Highly motivated candidates with determination, tenacity and drive
Willingness to learn and launch sales experience and technology expertise
Flexible and resilient problem solver
Passionate about IT and ability to tap into technology
History of career progression and desire for professional development
Thrives in a team environment
BS/BA Equivalent
Why Cisco
At Cisco, each person brings their different talents to work as a team and make a difference.
Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.
We connect everything - people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.
We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more.
We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
