Account Executive - Splunk (Mid-West, FSI)

Job Title

Drive revenue growth across large enterprise accounts as an individual contributor, with responsibility for building pipeline and delivering license, support, and service revenue targets.

Establish a vision and plan to guide a long-term approach to pipeline generation and consistently deliver against revenue targets and deadlines. Land, adopt, expand, and deepen sales opportunities by exploring relationships and business possibilities across the client organization. Expand relationships and orchestrate complex deals across diverse business stakeholders while using channel relationships to identify and open new opportunities. Collaborate across teams, provide timely input to corporate functions, and develop knowledge of machine learning and predictive analytics to support customer engagements.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of direct sales experience selling enterprise software to large enterprise customers.

Experience developing and executing business plans for an assigned territory, account portfolio, or customer base, including measuring progress toward goals and addressing roadblocks.

Experience developing sales pipeline and achieving sales targets in a fast-growing, changing business environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Software experience in one or more of the following: IT systems, enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, DevOps, security, business applications, and/or analytics.

Subscription, SaaS, or cloud software experience.

Experience in new business development with prospects and customers in a defined territory.

Experience engaging with executive stakeholders and applying active listening in customer engagements.

Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques; knowledge of Force Management, MEDDPICC, and Challenger methodologies is a plus.

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.

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.

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