What You'll Do The EMEA Solutions Engineering Leader position will be responsible for motivating and developing and leading a regional team of Solution Architects for the CGEM inbound sales team across EMEA. You will be expected to empower, encourage, and continually develop your teams and channel partners while tackling new competitors as Cisco continues its evolution in a constantly evolving customer digital environment. You will need a strong background in executive-level communication with experience building customer and partner relationships, and territory planning and segmentation. The ideal candidate should be a people-focused technical sales professional who provides technical direction and business guidance to the Premium Sales teams. This individual should be a self-starter who can actively develop and maintain a team of high-performing Engineers and continually seek innovative methods for improving team performance. Key responsibilities • Identifying, developing and implementing key initiatives that align with Americas Country Global Enterprise Model (CGEM) Area and Account Leader Strategy & Execution Priorities • Work hand in hand with the Sales leadership to build a culture of collaboration, inclusion and constant growth • Establish relationships built on trust and commitment at multiple levels within customer accounts • Foster relationships with architecture leaders to bring the best cross functional solutions and teams to our customers • Facilitate growth and development plans for all Engineering team members to drive personal and professional growth and a culture of curiosity • Anticipate any change in the opportunities, market, customer needs and requirements that could impact the overall team goals. • Build the capabilities needed to deliver on the team's short- and long-term goals, including identification and development of a strong pipeline of the best talent from both internal and external candidate pools • Communicate a clear vision and strategy for the region that inspires and empowers the team to execute within a common framework Who You'll Work With The Global Enterprise Segment (GES) is responsible for some of the largest and most valuable Cisco enterprise customers worldwide. Our vision is to be recognized by our customers as the industry leader in meeting their global business needs by using our uniquely global customer experience to deliver innovative, flexible and customer-centric solutions and services. Who You Are • Ability to bring the company strategy into your own technical team and drive Cisco's end-to-end vision for our Global customers, as well as maintain an in-depth understanding of competitive conditions, industry practices, market opportunities, and customer requirements • Experience of showing leadership skills in a group of peers and cross functional team members • Should be motivated to work on a highly complex and extremely large deals with diverse set of internal and external collaborators • Able to develop and lead the diversified and self-achiever team Why Cisco? WeAreCisco. 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Be you, with us WeAreCisco 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 have access 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.