What You'll Do
In this exciting role, your primary focus will be on developing messaging and advocating services within the Advanced Services portfolio.
Specific job responsibilities include:
* Develops technology-specific strategic value messaging platforms featuring value propositions and strategic differentiators
* Creates offer-level Sales Proposal Templates
* Interlocks with teams including Field Enablement, Services Marketing, and Business Development to bring content in the value messaging platforms to life
* Supports Global Portfolio Management through priority initiatives
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* Evangelizes portfolio strategies to internal stakeholder, sales teams, and external partners
* Synthesizes complex technical and market issues, develop insight into and solutions for those challenges and gain acceptance and commitment from others
* Examines new market and technology messaging and proposes action
* Integrates customer and market requirements into technology market messaging
* Understands competitor's positioning and strategies and develops Cisco competitive strategy and positioning
* Resolves cross-organization process issues and focuses on process improvement
* Ensures the success of service roadmap and initiatives
* Works independently with only minimal management oversight
* Leads teams to complete projects and major initiatives using judgment and experience
* Develops service-level messaging to educate internal stakeholders and external market of offerings and capabilities
Who You'll Work With
Help Cisco lead the professional services market. You will be working within the Cisco Advanced Services (AS) Global Portfolio team to evangelize and position the portfolio to highlight unique value proposition. You will work closely with the Service Product Managers (SPMs), Business Development, Field Enablement, Customer and Employee Experience, Strategic Communications, Marketing, & other functions to drive a successful value proposition internally and externally.
Who You Are
Do you have an entrepreneurial drive and work ethic? Are you self-motivated, results oriented and have a demonstrated ability to add value and succeed in a fast paced environment? Then this may be the role for you!
The effective Senior Product Marketing Manager will possess the following skills, attitude, experience and knowledge:
* Understanding of professional services market and/or technology markets (Cloud, Data Center, Networking, Security, IOT, Collaboration)
* Makes or successfully influences all tactical and many strategic decisions
* Superior project management skills
* Flexibility in a fast paced, ever-changing, deadline-driven environment.
* Must have ability to 'think outside the box' and have willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done right
* Team player with strong communications, interpersonal, persuasive and negotiation skills
* Thinks collaboratively and communicates effectively with people at all levels and a global team
* Ability to instill a sense of shared vision
* Experience working with and presenting to Customers, Executives and Senior Leaders
* Demonstrates effective written skills including the ability to create and deliver compelling presentations to diverse audiences including executive management, prospects, customers, salespeople, engineering and partners
* Demonstrates ability to effectively formulate and drive strategic initiatives and manage multiple deadline-driven projects simultaneously
Our minimum requirements are the following:
* BS in business, science, engineering or technology
* MBA or Advanced Degree Strongly Preferred
* 10 years of work experience, ideally including Product Management, Technology Strategy, or Marketing
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