Systems Engineering Manager Job at CISCO
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Cisco Nigeria is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Systems Engineering Manager
Requisition #: R1010236
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
The Business Entity
- Cisco Sales is all about Inspiring Dreams, Accelerating Growth,
Connecting Worlds, Recognizing Wins, Respect and Enabling you to be your
best. Does this sound intriguing to you? Welcome to Cisco.
The Team
- This Systems Engineering Manager role will be part of Cisco's
Maghreb Engineering team (Based in our office in Algiers, Algeria)!
- Do you want to be part of Cisco's most gifted, diverse and specialized Engineering team?
- This team's strength is recognizing technical and business model
transitions early and guiding customers and Cisco to properly align for
success.
Role & Responsibilities
- Senior Manager, Systems Engineer to provide leadership and
guidance to an operation and regional teams in support of sales and
development efforts. In this role, you will be planning the technical
direction for the team, identifying expertise to grow the team as
needed, and facilitating key partnerships between internal, partner, and
client organizations. This is an ideal position for someone who has
proven leadership skills and related industry and technical expertise to
advance their career in management or sales.
- Recruit, hire and retain the right people to form a systems
engineering team that drives sales. Coach and develop staff; provide
performance management, development planning, salary planning and
technical training.
- Develop relationships with customers, vendors, partners and
corporate service organizations to manage successful network
implementations that allow customers to gain competitive advantage
through use of Cisco technology.
- Coach the Systems Engineering team to drive an architectural
approach to solving customers' business challenges. Focus the team on
creating and sustaining high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Plan, organize and direct the activities of a variety of
Corporate and non-sales support groups to ensure the finalization of
customer system needs.
- Continuous team development with regard to fast-paced and
changing technology to ensure state-of-the-art readiness to apply
diverse solutions to customer's networking requirements.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years related experience in the internetworking technology
industry and 5+ years management experience (or demonstrated leadership
of technical teams within Cisco).
- Cisco experience highly desired.
- Pre-Sales experience required.
- Typically requires BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent.
Desired Skills
- Solid knowledge in the relevant technical area's: Routing and
Switching, Data Center and Virtualization, Communication and
Collaboration, Security and Mobility.
- Have knowledge of relevant solutions sets, product line specifications, performance criteria and applications.
- Must have excellent written and oral communication skills to
assist at the Customer Management Interface level, including negotiation
and presentation skills.
- Excellent leadership, coaching and mentoring skills.
- Excellent conflict resolution and team building skills
- Demonstrate ability to manage professionally diverse employees through mentoring, coaching and skill development.
- Ability to establish clear objectives and direction for team.
- Thorough competitive knowledge including solutions, technology and product offerings.
- Understand and be conversant about company, its solutions, and product strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
- In-depth understanding and experience in management of all aspects of sales support processes.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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