Account Executive - Networking

Meet the Team

You will be part of a very dynamic team operating at the bleeding edge of the technology focusing on Networking. As a UK Networking Specialist, you will act as a trusted advisor to our customers. You will utilise your extensive knowledge of the networking landscape to guide clients through our portfolio, ensuring they receive tailored solutions that optimise their infrastructure and support their long-term success!

Your Impact

• Owns relationships and influences strategic decisions within the customer’s buying center.
• Works with and supports account teams and customers to understand customer needs and position Cisco Networking.
• Applies deep Networking expertise and broad solution knowledge, enriched by competitor intelligence and industry insight.
• Maintains expert-level knowledge of all elements of the business case, including the drivers of cost, benefit, risk.
• Provides architectural expertise in Networking across opportunities; maintains Networking-specific forecasting while triangulating technical projections with broader portfolio planning to ensure alignment.
• Develops comprehensive proposals highlighting Cisco offerings that address solution gaps and aligns with customer objectives.
• Works closely with solution engineers, account teams and customers to set the direction and strategy for specific focus areas in Networking.
• Provides valuable feedback from customer interactions to Cisco’s development teams, influencing product roadmaps and ensuring solutions are adaptive to emerging market demands and technological advancements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience.
• Experience in Sales, Networking and managing customer and partner relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

• Specialisation and Focus on Networking: Expert with deep technical and product knowledge.
• Customer Engagement and Accountability.
• Experience on interactions with IT, LOB, CXOs, & decision makers.
• Strong presentation, communication and influencing skills.

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.

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.