In this position you will be responsible for the Americas Architectures Sales Strategy, Cross-Architecture program/project management and Executive Communications supporting the Americas Architectures Senior Sales & Engineering Leadership team.
In this role you will report directly to the Americas Architectures, Engineering & GTM S&P Director. Your focus will be crafting and amplifying messaging in alignment with the Americas Communication leader, WW Architecture teams, and Americas Architecture teams. You will drive effective pipeline generating initiatives into Americas and be able to demonstrate their efficiency or target areas of improvement. These programs will require coordination across teams and those outputs will include sales plays, internal and coordination of external communications, metrics, dashboards, and field and partner awareness. In some cases, you will be responsible for crafting these outputs and in many cases, you will coordinate with centralized Americas teams, as well as WW and BE teams to use their resources.
Your ability to balance the run the business as well as ensure the success of strategic programs within the Architecture business will be key. You will work closely across the Americas Architecture Leaders, S&P, Operations, WW S&P, Partner S&P, and BE Ops. I
In addition, you will: Build structure and consistency around the strategy and priorities of the Americas Architectures execution and communicationsBuild a scalable process to develop, drive, and measure the impact of identified key business acceleration initiativesProject management for all x-architecture and architecture campaigns and initiatives including rigor to development of metricsCrafting and influencing insights strategy by leading the gathering of business requirements for dashboard development, crafting mockups, and provide sales insight to leadersYou will ensure alignment across the WW and Americas Architecture and BE teams motivating cross matrixed teams to complete cross-arch initiatives and Americas GTM campaigns and field enablementResponsible for the VPs executive engagements, comms, and tying together the organizations strategic vision into a cohesive communications plan and building culture and rituals within the team.You will work directly with the Americas communications team as well to align to messaging, priorities, and translate over to Architecture messaging.Who You'll Work WithYou will work directly with the Americas Architectures Sales & Engineering Leaders, America’s Strategy, Planning, and Operations team as well as the Americas Communications team. You will create simplified and effective communications strategy and streams to effectively complete the Americas critical initiatives.
Who You AreYou have cross-functional project management skills and ensure proper level of follow-through and measurement. A strong task orientation.You have worked in cross matrixed environments with track record of success in program management of initiatives, SPIFFs, and seller enablementUnderstands a seller mentality and providing the tools needed to complete across rotating prioritiesYou have a deep knowledge set of developing insights and working across business intelligence teams.Ability to create and deliver both a communications framework and ongoing communications for executive (customer, partners, and internal Cisco facing)You can tie strategy of an organization to the “voice of the executive” through successful writing and tapping into multiple communication channels.Heavily focused on creating strong culture via comms and creating structure and organization.Our minimum requirements for this role:5+ years related experienceTrack-record of creating successful scripting presentations for Senior Leaders, with GSX experience an added benefitExperience in creating, amplifying and driving sales campaignsProgram and Project management experience with cross functional teams driving to a common goal (WW and GEO based preferred)Experience in successfully supporting Executive CommunicationsExperience advising senior leadership to drive outcomes and influence actionPreferred: Ability to work cross-functionally in order to develop and deliver critical initiativesDeep understanding of our networking platforms to support AIStrong written and oral communication skillsAbility to scale and implement in a fast-paced environment across cross-architecture and x-segment organizationsExceptional communication skills and experience simplifying the complex into clear and concise messagingTypically requires BS/BA or equivalent experienceExcellent “team first” mentality with the ability to bring others along for a common goalWhy CiscoAt 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.
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