Account Executive - STC Apply (https://jobs.cisco.com/jobs/Login?projectId=1448985) + Location:Riyadh, Saudi Arabia + Area of InterestSales - Product + Job TypeProfessional + Technology InterestService Provider + Job Id1448985 **Meet the Team** Are you looking to be part of an innovative and dynamic team? Why not join the Middle East & Africa Service Provider team at Cisco KSA? There has never been a better time than now to be a part of the Service Provider (SP) industry. In recent years, we have witnessed the acceleration of the digital economy. The role of SPs has never been more important in keeping organizations and customers connected. SPs have demonstrated resilience by quickly adapting to sudden shifts in demand and will continue to be the backbone of emerging societies, markets, and industries. Moving forward, they will evolve their strategies to meet shifting customer needs and expectations, providing secure, resilient, balanced, and reliably connected purpose-centric ecosystems. Join us and be part of an incredible team where you can help build the bridge to possible. We are Cisco Sales. We sell solutions that make our customers successful with an outcome-based engagement. Our focus is to tackle customers' most critical problems and help them harness new market opportunities. We anticipate our customers' needs as the world undergoes a remarkable transformation and technology impacts everything. You will join a team of highly skilled sales professionals working with Pre-sales Engineering to plan sales strategies, develop proposals, deliver customer solutions, build trusted relationship, and close business deals. At Cisco, you will be the first to benefit from what our technology can offer. Our approach enables you to be flexible in how you arrange your work, ensuring you give and take the best. **Your Impact** We are seeking for an Account Executive focused on growing Cisco’s business with the Key Service Provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this role, you will: + Deliver an outstanding customer experience and become a trusted advisor to your customers. + Work closely with cross-functional team members to identify, develop, deliver, and close new business opportunities around our Service Provider portfolio. + Plan and execute sales strategies to meet agreed milestones and timelines, ensuring sales targets are achieved or exceeded. + Provide accurate business metrics, including monthly forecasts, weekly commits, and pipeline development reports. + Stay flexible and proactively anticipate change in opportunities, market conditions, customer needs, and requirements that could impact overall revenue target. + Team player with discipline and cooperative culture. **Minimum Qualifications** + 5+ years of demonstrated success in achieving and exceeding sales targets. + Expertise in developing trusted customer relationships with both technical decision-makers and the business. + Skilled at understanding customers' business drivers and aligning them with Cisco solutions. + Strong sense for business, flexibility, and the ability to adapt to a high-energy, dynamic environment characterized by innovation and rapid growth. + Ability to excel in collaborative team environments. + Excellent interpersonal skills in both English and Arabic. **Preferred Qualifications** + Sales experience with telecom/service provider customers. + Strong understanding of Cisco or competitive technologies and business knowledge. + Effective negotiation skills to craft solutions beneficial to both customers and Cisco. + Demonstrated operational excellence and financial competence. **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. Simply put – we power the future. 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. **Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:** When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada 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. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees haveaccess (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/careers/we-are-cisco/benefits-and-perks.html) 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. 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.