Collaboration Renewals Specialist

at  Cisco Systems

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Cisco is looking for a Collaboration Renewals Specialist to join our Collaboration Renewals Sales (Webex Suite) team. The team forms part of the Customer Success Sales organization, one of Cisco’s fastest-growing sales teams and is a talent engine for Cisco Sales with diverse and motivated teams that consistently deliver profitable growth.
What you’ll do
A Renewals Specialist for the Collaboration portfolio (Webex Suite) of Software Technologies is an exciting role, where the ability to collaborate is at its core and no two days are the same. As the lead specialist for your region, you will be responsible for driving growth in renewal sales and crafting a successful customer renewal experience. This will be achieved by sharing customer value propositions for Collaboration offers, addressing objections, adoption barriers, and competitive risks, and highlighting compelling migration and expansion options. The role requires close collaboration directly with customers, partners, and internal team members across sales, engineering, and marketing.

The key requirements of this job include:

• Build, develop and execute a sales pipeline based on upcoming renewals for near-term in-quarter growth while running the future-term pipeline to work early and ahead of time on key future renewals.
• A strong sales competence and confidence when communicating the business benefits Collaboration Software provides customers.
• Educate and excite our Partners and partner teams on the Collaboration Renewals story, drive engagement and understanding of the market and build business development opportunities.
• Strong data analysis skills, supporting quote creation and closing renewal opportunities for accounts
• Lead and build sales opportunities - working closely with Cisco Partners, Solution Specialists, and technical teams to build a renewals strategy for key accounts.
• Use Salesforce to track current/potential customer interactions and drive progression of opportunities through the sales cycle

Who you’ll work with:
We serve our customer life-cycle through a series of selling motions to drive higher value and an efficient experience from Cisco solutions to drive relevant business outcomes. We are a global, dynamic team that brings excitement to the sales environment every day. We connect Cisco customers with solutions that can transform their businesses and change the world for the better. You will discover a creative, flexible and award-winning working environment using the latest Cisco technology to enable and empower you to perform to the very best of your abilities. Our teams adapt quickly to respond to market changes and are all highly encouraged to give back to our local communities.

Who you are:

• 5+ years of related experience (Bachelor’s degree - beneficial)
• Excellent verbal (via telephone) and written (via email) communications skills
• Strong written and spoken English and German language skills. Fluency in other, local languages is highly valued
• A high orientation to detail and capable of handling a large volume of accounts, tasks and responsibilities.
• Strong customer service, listening and presentation skills
• Previous Collaboration experience - beneficial
• Previous experience working with Salesforce - beneficial
• A Self Starter / High Energy / Positive Demeanor / Customer Focused

Please refer the Job description for details