Meet the Team

The Networking Sales Specialist team in The Netherlands is a dynamic group of top talents, known for their proactive approach and ability to differentiate Cisco in the sales cycle with innovative, customer-focused solutions. Passionate about helping customers transform their networks, we combine deep technical expertise with strategic insights to deliver impactful outcomes, empowering businesses to achieve their goals in a fast-evolving digital world.

Your Impact

As a Networking Sales Specialist at Cisco, you become a key player in shaping the future of connectivity and innovation. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with groundbreaking technologies. You'll be at the forefront of driving digital transformation by delivering secure, scalable AI-powered networking solutions.

As part of our team, you will champion Enterprise Networking architecture transformation and be responsible for driving Switching, Routing and Wireless business in the Dutch market. To achieve this, we are looking for someone who has strong sales skills, a solid technical foundation, influence capabilities, and ability to articulate Cisco’s values.

• Market opportunity and Strategy:

• Contribute to the high touch segment strategy, build and implement a networking growth plan based on the market opportunity.

• Customer Engagement and Opportunity Development:

• Direct engagement with customers and partners

• Work closely with the portfolio sales teams to grow and expand the networking funnel.

• Actively contribute to the account planning process.

• Programmatic Campaign Ownership:

• Own and drive programmatic architectural campaigns to generate incremental pipelines for focus segments, including leading and delivering one to many events for customers and partners.

• Competitive Differentiation:

• Leverage Cisco’s technology portfolio to align with and address customer business objectives.

• Continuous learning and coaching:

• Coach Portfolio teams on solution value — from feature to outcome and business impact, including Cisco Platform positioning.

• Invest time in personal education continually developing your technical skills, business insight, and vertical/industry knowledge.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of sales experience in networking solutions with proven success in selling end-to-end IT solutions.

• Solid understanding of Cisco's networking portfolio and strategy.

• Superb communication and collaboration skills with ability to understand customer needs and align solutions with their business objectives.

• Ability to manage a pipeline, develop and execute account plans and data-driven strategies.

• Proficient in Dutch and English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical selling skills in Routing, Switching, Wireless, and other general networking technologies. Knowledge of emerging technologies like AI/ML integration in networking.

• MBA, Economics and Finance degree or equivalent preferred.

• CCNP certification or above is strongly preferred .

• Understanding complex sales cycles with a strong ability to accelerate sales.

• Ability to take ownership of objectives and results and operate without needing detailed management.

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.