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Cisco
Nigeria – We create a culture where everyone is welcome, valued,
respected and heard; where our employees can contribute to their
full potential in pursuit of Cisco’s vision and objectives.
Through this culture of inclusion and diversity we help to create
a great place to work for employees and an intense focus on our
global customers and shareholders. From this we gain a better
understanding of the world and the
differences in its people. We achieve more together and change
the way we work, live, play, and learn.
We are recruiting for the position below:
Job Title: System Engineer-Commercial & Partner
Led
Requisition #: R985282
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Category: Sales
Job Description
For years, Cisco’s vision has been to change the way the world
works, lives, plays, and learns. Our vision is more relevant
today than ever. We made the Internet what it is today. First,
we focused on creating connectivity. Now, we’re entering the
Internet of Everything transition – an era where we’ll help
create unprecedented value by connecting the unconnected.
The Internet of Everything is a global industry phenomenon that
is driving the biggest market transition for Cisco and our
customers. This includes the intelligent connection of people,
process, data, and things. It’s where everything is converged
on the Internet, making networked connections more relevant and
valuable than before.
Key Responsibilities
- To help us bring this vision to life, join us in our
exciting journey
- Cisco seeks a Systems Engineer to partner with our Account
Executive team in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco
product solutions, setting up demonstrations and explaining
features and benefits to customers and designing and
configuring products to meet specific customer needs.
- This role is heavily focused on challenging customer
paradigms and building architectural solutions to solve
critical customer business needs.
- Candidates should possess a deep understanding of Cisco’s
suite of products, solutions and go to market strategy.
- The candidate will have access to the broad palette of
Cisco technologies and applications focused in the Enterprise
& Partner Led market segment.
Skills and Experience
In additional to technological aptitude, the ability to learn
quickly and stay current, the ideal candidate’s interpersonal,
presentation and troubleshooting skills evoke passion and
confidence – including:
- Keep up-to-date on relevant competitive solutions, products
and services. Provide technical and sales support for assigned
accounts.
- 3+ years-related experience. Cisco product experience or
relevant experience in key competitor offerings in technology
area of emphasis required. Pre-Sales experience required.
- CCIE certification highly desirable.
- Perform technical presentations for customers, partners and
prospects. Assist with the development of formal sales plans
and proposals for assigned opportunities.
- Actively participate as a specialist on assigned Virtual
Team and provide consultative support in their area of
specialization.
Requirements
In addition, the ideal candidate will possess the following:
- The ability to apply baseline SE skills to position Cisco
products and solutions to solve technical and business
problems.
- Understands and conversant about Cisco, competitors,
technologies, solutions, product strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats.
- Be able to translate knowledge into sales opportunities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, listening,
negotiation and presentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively as an added value team member
and assume a leadership role within the team.
- Demonstrated technical knowledge and consultative skills.
- Ability to understand complex technical and selling
situations and the ability to solve the problem or solicit the
required resources to drive business impact.
- Strong operating experience in one or more of the following
area’s of specialization: Core Routing and Switching, Wireless
Networking, Network Security, Optical Networking, (Voice &
Video), Cloud & Data Center (Compute, Storage &
Network, Virtualization). In-depth knowledge of Unified
Communications/Collaboration (Voice/Video) systems and
platforms.
- Knowledge of competitive offerings in area of
specialization with the ability to articulate Cisco’s
competitive advantages.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
"https://jobs.cisco.com/job/Lagos-System-Engineer-Commercial-&-Partner-Led/257218500/"
target="_blank">Click here to apply
online