Account Executive AI - UK

What You'll Do

Our team is seeking a dynamic Account Executive for our growing Artificial Intelligence to join our strong and strategic sales team. As an Account Executive, you will drive the adoption of our AI solutions across various industries. You will identify potential clients, understand their specific needs, and provide tailored AI solutions that align to their business operations. This role requires a deep understanding of AI technologies and a proven track record to translate technical concepts to senior stakeholders.

Who You'll Work With

The Cloud + AI Infrastructure team delivers one scalable strategy with local execution for data center customer transformation and growth. We are the worldwide go-to-market compute and data center networking engine assembling market transitions and engaging with sellers to fuel growth for customers and Cisco. Alongside our colleagues, Cloud & AI Infrastructure builds the sales strategy, activates sellers and technical communities, and accelerates selling every single day.

Who You Are

You will develop and execute a sales strategy to achieve sales targets for AI products and services and identify and prioritize target accounts and develop relationships with key decision-makers and partners. Engaging with clients to understand their business challenges and conducting detailed analysis to find opportunities for AI solutions are two dynamic skills you will bring to this role. You understand AI technical concepts and translate them into business value for clients.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Minimum 8 years of technology-related sales, account management or services sales experience.
2. Experience in complex long-term sales lifecycles and working in a matrixed environment to meet customer expectations.
3. Deep expertise in vertical markets and an understanding of the challenges organizations face, enabling you to uncover impactful use cases.
4. Proven track record to build and maintain relationships at the C-suite and line-of-business levels.
5. A track record of success and partnering with cross-functional teams, partners, and business value selling to win deals.
6. Familiarity with Cisco's AI platforms and an understanding of their benefits (this is not a traditional infrastructure sales role).
7. Be able to provide business value cases examples of with a clear vision of the impact to the customer, return on investment, regulatory requirement and people.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Bachelor's Degree, MBA and, or relevant AI certification.
2. Proven selling experience in the following verticals - Public Sector (Healthcare and Gov), Financial Services, Manufacturing and Retail.
3. Demonstrate end-to-end selling of AI products and delivering a concept to the customer which considers the engagement, people, process, data and infrastructure.
4. Proven experience in bringing technology to market. Building a scaling through multiple avenues.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

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