Client Executive

Meet the Team

Your Impact

• Serve as Client Executive for one or two large BFSI accounts.
• Manage all revenue streams from these accounts by working closely with cross-functional and extended teams.
• Build and maintain relationships with client stakeholders at all management levels, including CXOs, to support strong business ties between Cisco and client organizations.
• Develop long-term (1-3 year) account and business plans in partnership with cross-functional teams, aligned with customer growth, innovation, and transformation goals.
• Execute a 12-month account/business plan to meet milestones and objectives, identifying and closing key opportunities in collaboration with internal partners and decision makers.
• Develop and communicate sales strategies for major opportunities, and manage the buying cycle for these pursuits.
• Provide business reporting, including monthly forecasts, weekly commitments, pipeline development, and adherence to MEDDPICC.
• Ensure market position and share targets are achieved through consistent messaging and engagement across all levels of the account.
• Collaborate with customers to develop innovation strategies that drive cost savings, business value, and competitive advantage; act as the main point of contact for the account.
• Focus on value-based selling and establishing business relevance for technology solutions.

The Cisco BFSI Enterprise team works to address customers' most critical business challenges and partners with them to capture market opportunities. The team prioritizes business outcomes and solutions, aiming to deliver value to customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of sales experience in the technology sector, preferably in BFSI.
• Experience selling to large enterprise accounts.
• Strong time management, organizational, and negotiation skills.
• Sound business decision-making ability.
• Ability to influence and engage senior customer executives (CXO level) and business decision makers.
• Awareness of Cisco products, services, solutions, and processes is an advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent negotiation skills and sound business decision-making ability.
• Strong relationship-building skills with CXO-level executives.
• Experience in developing and articulating sales strategies.
• Ability to understand and manage the buying cycle for major opportunities.
• Interest in technology and delivering business value through innovative solutions.

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U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.