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*Job Category:* Systems Engineering
*Level of Experience:* Experienced - Manager
*Requisition #:* R1013854
*Description:*
Manager - Systems Engineering
The Business Entity
India & SAARC Sales organization comprises of enterprise, commercial and growth segments.
We innovate, support and execute on the APJC Theater and WW vision to drive accelerated and profitable business growth
The Team
To be a Systems Engineer at Cisco India is a pride and an opportunity to work with the best networking professionals in the IT Industry.
As Cisco charters its journey to be the number 1 IT Company, it will provide significant opportunities to increase your knowledge, skills, and performance by taking advantage of Cisco's wide range of professional development programs.
Cisco offers professional development and leadership programs and many of these are ideally suited for Systems Engineers who are working on the edge of market transitions and handling cutting edge technology for our customers.
Role & Responsibilities
Cisco seeks a Systems Engineering Manager to provide leadership and guidance to a systems engineering team 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 in related industry and technical expertise to advance their career in management.
This SE Manager Position will be part of Cisco’s Customer Lead Sales Organization.
As we see unprecedented growth on networking in the Public Sector Customer and PSU Enterprise, we are looking to evolve network for business growth.
The ideal candidate should have an understanding of network and service trends across the industry, lead a team of talented SEs to conceive a set of evolving optimal architectures and then translate into requirements driven into the Cisco Business Units.
As this is a position on Partner Business account this is a very influential position and will allow the individual to drive the Partner Business strategy.
Primary responsibilities for this position include:
- Responsible for the implementation of programs in the region.
- Continually strives to develop the systems engineering team.
- Influential in setting vision and strategies for the region.
- Coach and develop staff; provide performance management, development planning and technical training.
- Develop relationships with customers, partners and corporate service organizations to manage successful technical/business planning that allow customers to gain competitive advantage through use of our technology
- Plan, organize and direct the activities for Partners to drive effective technical/business planning, strategy and forecast accuracy.
- Responsible for focusing on major opportunities, expanding territory business, and driving critical account situations to resolution.
- Recruit, hire and retain the right people for permanent and temporary assignments.
- Excels in the areas of:
1.
Leading with Vision
2.
Business Impact and Acumen
3.
Building and Developing High Quality Teams
4.
Customer Executive Presence and Influence
5.
Ability to Influence within Cisco
6.
Teamwork and Collaboration
7.
Industry Knowledge and Influence
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience managing direct customer engagement
- 15+ years related experience in the internetworking technology industry and management experience a plus.
- Pre-Sales experience
- Typically requires BE/BTech (EE/CS) or equivalent from leading institute
- Specifically this position is focused on the Switching and Routing, but the responsibilities will require an understanding of Collaboration and Datacenter business and its impacts to the end-to-end network.
Have strong skills in the areas of:
- Collaboration & Influence
- Strong Ability to Influence extended team
- Ability to collaborate with regional manager as a business partner
- Strong Collaboration skills with CDO leadership to influence roadmaps and product direction
- Ability to be flexible to align goals and priorities between organizations
- Communications Skills and Presence
- Ability to represent the Region to Corporate and Sales Leadership
- Strong presentation, verbal and written communications skills
- Demonstrates Presence and Credibility with customers, Sales, and Engineering
- Able to demonstrate value to the team and be seen as a Go To person for top issues
- Excel at prioritizing issues based on business impact
- Consistently focuses time and energy on top business issues
- Collaborate with Operation Management team and extended team to solve issues
- Drives for action plans, ownership, and results
About Cisco
The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide.
We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity.
Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services.
As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected.
Imagine creating unprecedented disruption.
Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond.
Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work.
With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco
*Job Type:* Manager
*Opportunity Category:* *None
*Manager*
*Gurgaon IN*
*R1013854-en_US*