Account Executive

Meet the Team

We are Cisco Sales. We sell solutions and products that make our customers successful. Our focus is to tackle customers' most critical problems and help them harness new market opportunities. We anticipate our customers' needs as the world shifts in an outstanding transformation and technology impacts everything. You will join a team of highly skilled sales professionals working with Pre‑sales Engineering to plan sales strategies, develop proposals, deliver customer presentations, and close the business.

At Cisco, you will be the first to benefit from what our technology can offer. Our approach is to enable you to be flexible in how you arrange your work, making sure you give and take the best.

Role

We are seeking an Account Executive focused on growing Cisco's business in Ticino, Switzerland. In this role, you will:

• Deliver an outstanding customer experience and become a trusted advisor to your customers.
• Work closely with cross‑functional team members to identify, develop, deliver, and close new business opportunities around our complete portfolio.
• Plan and execute sales strategies to meet agreed milestones and timelines, ensuring sales targets are achieved or exceeded.
• Provide accurate business metrics, including monthly forecasts, weekly commits, and pipeline development reports.
• Stay flexible and proactively anticipate changes in opportunities, market conditions, customer needs, and requirements that could impact overall revenue target.

• 5+ years of documented achievement of meeting or exceeding sales targets.
• Proven ability to develop trusted customer relationships with both technical decision‑makers and the business.
• Demonstrated skills in analyzing customers' business drivers and aligning them with Cisco solutions.
• Experience working effectively in collaborative team environments.
• Established credibility with regional customers and partners.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in Italian, German, English.

• Strong understanding of Cisco or competitive technologies and business knowledge.
• Effective negotiation skills to craft solutions beneficial to both customers and Cisco.
• Strong sense for business, flexibility, and the ability to adapt to a high‑energy, dynamic environment characterized by innovation and rapid growth.
• Demonstrated operational excellence and financial competence.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Sales and Business Development

Software Development

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