Sales Enablement Lead, Partner Managed Services

Meet The Team

Join the team leading and growing Cisco's share in the $200B global managed services (MS) market with our partners. We have an amazing opportunity ahead of us, and we're looking for a Sales Enablement lead to join the global Partner Managed Services team to lead our sales enablement strategy. This role will drive messaging and positioning to our sellers and improve stakeholder engagement to integrate partner managed services into Cisco's broader sales enablement strategies and plans. You will also maintain strong interlock with the Regional MS teams and support their MS sales enablement plans and create core MS sales enablement content and develop engaging seller learning experiences tailored to diverse global audiences.

You will have the opportunity to work in a cross-functional model with numerous Cisco Sales and Channel organizations.

Your Impact

In this position you will work with the Global and Regional Partner organizations as well as Sales to lead the Partner Managed Services Sales Enablement Strategy focused on aligning our Cisco Sellers with the managed services motion delivered by our partners. This role drives awareness and adoption of MS through building and scaling MS enablement content, frameworks, and tools, and leveraging Cisco's core programs and platforms to integrate managed services into sellers' workflows. Success is dependent on strong interlock with the regional MS stakeholders to ensure MS is embedded and aligned to regional enablement plans to drive seller training, participation, wins stories, and managed services bookings.

You will work closely with the subject matter experts across many organizations within Cisco in the development of these materials and training as needed.

You will be expected to:

• Lead the global sales enablement strategy, planning, execution, and measure and report the KPIs and results to the business.
• Interlock with the regional MS teams to contribute and support their managed services sales enablement plans.
• Develop Partner Managed Services messaging and positioning to our seller audiences.
• Work across Cisco Sales and Channel organizations to embed managed services in the broader enablement initiatives.
• Create core content and resources catering to different sales audiences (AEs/PAEs/SEs) across Cisco's sales and channel organization.
• Develop role-based learning paths that address the unique skills, tools, and resources needed across various sales teams to drive adoption of our partner's managed services.
• Promote MS to the field through Cisco communication vehicles and orchestrate roll-out and adoption of assets globally.
• Develop and maintain SharePoint presence including published assets and metrics.
• Deliver "one to many" training presentations.
• Maintain current knowledge of Cisco sales tools, incentives and seller compensation.
• Provide event support to integrate MS messaging and presence at our flagship events

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years total work experience at a top technology company in a sales enablement role.
• Experience in building and executing sales enablement strategies and plans.
• Experience in content creation, packaging and delivery.
• Experience in developing seller learning experiences and role-based learning paths.
• Experience in developing communications and driving awareness.
• Advanced Microsoft excel and PowerPoint skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of managed services business models across a range of technical domains; direct experience in sales enablement for both direct and partner facing sellers.
• Formal education and instructional development experience (MindTickle platform experience preferred).
• Excellent presentation and program management skills.

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.

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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.