WW MDS Sales Specialist

Cisco Systems
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/20/2024

What You'll Do

As a Sales Specialist, you’ll be the subject matter expert and facilitate the success of the Cisco Field sales teams in selling Cisco MDS Fibre Channel storage switches, software, solutions, and services with measurable sales objectives for the region you support.

Who You’ll Work With

On our World Wide Sales Team, you will be embracing unprecedented innovation and tremendous opportunity for growth. You will succeed because as a team we listen to our customers and anticipate their needs as the market shifts and technology transitions accelerate. Our customers are versatile, agile and adopt technology fast to compete passionately and grow their business. The World Wide Sales Team will provide you with unlimited opportunities to succeed at Cisco. Our culture will support and empower you.

Who You Are

You a technical seller who understands servers, storage, applications and networking along with the ability to think in unexpected ways and overcoming objections

Do you have experience selling Cisco specific products? Then that’s even better! These types of products include Unified Computing System, Unified Fabric, ACI, Storage MDS, Data Center Analytics, Virtualization, Hypervisors, Automation, Cloud, converged Infrastructure, Applications, VMware, Data Center architectures, design, consulting, and facilitation. Experience working with data center storage array manufacturers ie. Dell EMC, IBM, Hitachi, HPE, NetApp and Pure Storage is highly desirable.

Our minimum requirements for this overlay role include:

  • Complex Sales Cycle Management
  • Forecast accuracy and quota attainment
  • Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
  • Self Starter
  • Excellent Presentation skills
  • Datacenter, Storage, Compute, Apps, Big Data, Converged Infrastructure, Data Center Networking, and Systems experience preferred
  • Cloud computing and cloud architecture experience preferred- SaaS, LaaS, PaaS, Private, Public

We Are Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is outstanding, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here’s how we do it. We know that the award-winning culture at Cisco is something to brag about, but here are more reasons that make you excited to get out of bed to come in the morning, like:

  • Medical, dental, vision coverage
  • 401k match (4.5%) Employee stock purchase plan
  • Wellness perks (gym, hobbies, education, store discounts, personal finance)
  • 4 weeks PTO, 5 days VTO, 16 holidays (including 1 birthday PTO, Juneteenth, 1 floating holiday)
  • Required company shut down between Christmas and New Years

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.


Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
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, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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 pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate 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.

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