EMEA Sales Onboarding Lead

Meet the Team

The Global Early-in-Career Sales Onboarding team within Sales Enablement & Acceleration (SEA) is a forward-thinking, AI-first group on a mission to flip the traditional onboarding experience on its head. We architect the Day 1 journey for our interns and Early-in-Career talent, ensuring every individual is launched toward an incredible career trajectory at Cisco. By merging human-centric design with cutting-edge AI, we are redefining what it means to join a world-class sales organization! We are a high-energy, inclusive team that values bold experimentation and global impact. If you are a visionary disruptor who is ready to challenge the status quo and empower the next generation of sales leaders, we want to meet you.

Your Impact

• Lead a regional team of first-line managers who directly supervise our early-in-career (EIC) sales talent, while holding ultimate accountability for the success of all sales onboarding programs in your GEO.
• Partner with regional sales leaders to understand dynamic business needs and ensure enablement strategies are tailored to drive local success for sales new hires.
• Provide strategic thought leadership to influence global program design, ensuring regional nuances are integrated into our AI-first, forward-thinking onboarding engine.
• Oversee the end-to-end integration of new talent to accelerate productivity and secure long-term career trajectories, driving a disruptive experience that flips the traditional model on its head!

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in Sales, Sales Enablement, or Sales Operations within a global technology organization
• 3+ years of direct people management experience
• 3+ years of experience in a quota-carrying sales role or direct sales leadership position
• Proven experience in strategic planning and executing cross-functional initiatives within a highly matrixed environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Communications, or a related professional field

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong executive presence with the ability to build high-trust relationships with senior sales leadership in EMEA
• Passion for emerging technology and an "AI-first" mentality when solving complex business challenges
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills to articulate the value and "why" of the onboarding journey
• Ability to navigate complex organizational structures with agility and a forward-thinking perspective

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.