The Director of Sales Strategy & Planning will be responsible for working closely with the Vice President to manage the day-to-day senior operations, partnering with the leader to define, communicate and deliver the strategy for the group. This position is key in effectively implementing the strategy, predicting and resolving issues. The ideal candidate should possess the ability to make recommendations, provide constructive feedback to and guide senior executives based on business acumen, alignment to and understanding of the strategic landscape, leveraging analytical skills as needed to create a business case, communication and respect.
Watch: Career Advice He/She should be able to effortlessly move from strategic thinking to managing tactical issues. This position requires the candidate to work extensively with the sales senior leadership team and partner with other Cisco functional organizations. A pro-active and aggressive approach to take on difficult issues and to uncover and address areas of weakness will be critical.
Who You'll Work With
We are a Global Software Acceleration team. Our aim is to accelerate software and recurring revenue growth through strategic buying programs. Our mission: Transform how customers consume and derive value from our software solutions. In leveraging the value of software and scalable offers we help customers make money, save money and reduce risk. We are responsible for designing programs and GTM solutions for software working closely with SW GEO leaders and the OMO.
Who You Are
The ideal candidate will have the following skills/experience: • Able to lead critical business initiatives across Scalable Consumption Offers Team (SCO) and with other Organizations ( strategic planning, goal alignment, product planning, and operations.) • Able to lead business planning and portfolio analysis • Proficient in partnering with senior leadership team to align and execute the SCO vision • Able to provide impartial analysis of SCO program(s) performance • Able to execute management processes (staff meetings, ops review, etc.) with a high degree of productivity, efficiency and scale • Able to align efforts on goals and financial and performance metrics • Able to support and further enable the overall effectiveness for the VP
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