Account Executive

Meet The Team
The Public Sector Germany (PSG) team is a safe and inclusive environment where passionate and success-driven people develop their skills and are recognized for the phenomenal things they do. We celebrate success, learn from our failures and trust each other. Our guiding principles are honesty, integrity and personal accountability. We embrace diversity of background and opinion in everything we do. We have an insatiable curiosity about our Public Sector clients and consciously build the space to prepare for every interaction with them. We bring innovation and thought leadership, become our clients' advocates within Cisco, and are creative in building partnerships to deliver the outcomes they need. We will be on the front foot. We build our own opinions, we won't be afraid to share them, and we think BIG in everything we do.

Finally, we are highly purpose driven and our goal is to be the trusted advisor leading the public sector into the era of multi-cloud and AI, by providing secure, automated, resilient and sovereign infrastructure and platforms.

Your Impact

• Be responsible for federal customers in social welfare in Germany with a focus on datacenter (of which Cisco has a leading end-to-end portfolio which is what you will primarily sell)
• Translate customers' needs into potential solutions using Cisco products and services
• Plan an engagement and get the buy-in of all other internal and external stakeholders needed for the engagement
• Build and manage a pipeline of opportunities - including forecasting - against a quota
• Develop customer relationships and gain understanding of their vision, strategy and needs around digitization and system architectures and possible related solutions.
• Identify potential opportunities in AI-, in datacenter environment-Networking Compute and management,
• Focus on an outstanding customer experience and become your customers' trusted advisor.
• Understand customer's business drivers, regulatory environment, code of business conduct, external influencers and current market development and trends in Public Sector.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in sales account management and in selling datacenter solutions in German Public Sector Market
• Experiences with RFP's in Public Sector and frame agreements (with knowledge of special public regulations preferred)
• Strong Selling skills as well as sound knowledge in complex IT solutions and able to understand, articulate and position the value of a technology-based solution to the customer.
• You are a strong team player who takes responsibility for yourself and for your teammates.
• Write and speak English and German fluently (C1 Level).

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct Account management experience and a proven track record in a dynamic IT, Software, Services and Solution business
• Ability to develop trusted customer relationships up to C level combined with ability to network within a customer and partner organization to identify all key influencers and decision makers
• Ability to use and engage internal resources such as Marketing, Technology Experts, Services and others
• Demonstrable success in achieving and exceeding sales targets once selling Cisco architectures into accounts or within a territory
• Negotiation skills to craft solutions that are beneficial to our customers, partners and Cisco overall
• Confidence in applying business and financial expertise to identify and qualify opportunities.
• Ability to match customer needs with state-of-the-art technology solutions and partners to deliver them
• Experience in software sales and use of sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.