Sales Business Development Manager (remote)

Global Network Sales Team Opportunity

Join our Global Network Sales team, a dynamic and collaborative group at the forefront of connecting businesses worldwide with Cisco's innovative networking technology. We are passionate about driving the adoption and sales of our comprehensive networking solutions, partnering closely with customers to understand their outstanding challenges and deliver robust, secure, and scalable infrastructures.

Your role will be instrumental in crafting Cisco's go-to-market success within a specific industry vertical. You'll begin by conducting comprehensive analysis, delving into industry trends, challenges, regulations, and opportunities. This deep insight will directly inform our vertical Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies, empowering you to develop compelling, differentiated, and industry-specific value propositions and solution narratives that significantly elevate Cisco's relevance and thought leadership in the market.

Beyond strategy, you will enable our sales organization, equipping them with tailored playbooks, impactful use cases, persuasive case studies, and vital competitive intelligence crafted to drive engagement and conversions. You'll develop tight-knit collaborations, working with marketing teams to develop and implement targeted campaigns that resonate directly with key decision-makers and influencers in your vertical. Your influence will also extend to product development, as you collaborate with product management and engineering teams to prioritize features and innovations that directly address industry-specific demands.

Ultimately, you will actively support strategic account planning, facilitate executive briefings, and engage in high-impact customer interactions, consistently focusing on delivering tailored, vertical-led solutions that drive tangible customer success.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 years in networking sales organizations.

• Experience in customer engagement, product strategy, or GTM strategy.

• Prior professional experience in sophisticated, large enterprise environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong technical proficiency with a passion for staying current on emerging trends and Cisco solution offerings.

• Proven track record to build trust, influence collaborators, and lead cross-functional initiatives.

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and consultative problem-solving skills.

• Self-starter with the confidence and agility to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

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.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $158,800.00 to $208,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.