What You’ll Do
The new Customer Experience Renewal Manager (RM) role is a highly visible, strategic position to empower key customers to continue to transform their business and meet their objectives through Cisco solutions.
You will be accountable for owning and executing a portfolio of renewal contracts of Cisco products and services across an assigned customer account. RM’s work with customers, partners and across Cisco teams to develop a holistic, deep view of customer requirements and objectives and define a strategy to drive renewals to timely closure, as well as minimize renewals risk and financial attrition. You will bring a strong knowledge of negotiation strategies and orchestrates cross-functional resources across the company and with partners to provide a unified path to secure every renewal.
Key responsibilities and activities include:
Develop a knowledge base of end-to-end renewals cycle including up-sells and close timely contracts for assigned accounts
Learn customer’s industry/business
Articulate Sales/BD/Renewals handoffs
Aware of Cisco’s technology and what differentiates our products from competitors. Mentorship required on a regular basis.
Executes renewal contracts for products and services on small accounts with low complexity
Builds quotes, review contract terms, negotiation pricing, identify up-sell opportunities and handle objections.
Monitors quote creation progress to mitigate contract closure risks.
Conduct analysis and provides recommendations to the maximum value
Conduct process management and financial assessments to support renewals process
Supports Account Manager in negotiations to drive integrity of the renewal portion of the agreement
Monitor and reports state of customer relationships, pipeline, forecasts and new prospects
Assist Renewals team with ad hoc requests to meet customer need
Initiates the start of cross-functional relationships with Sales, BD and Operations
Who You’ll Work With
This role resides in the Customer Experience organization, one of Cisco’s fastest-growing teams that deliver profitable growth throughout the customer lifecycle with a series of selling motions to drive higher value and efficient experience from Cisco solutions.
Who You Are
You’ll be expected to have 3+ years of sales (quota carrying) experience in the IT industry or equivalent industries.
You analyze the customer environment, industry, market impact and Cisco footprint
You can implement policies for forecasting, data quality and accuracy
You’ll build an understanding of Customer and Partners procurement processes
You will gain experience with CRM tools i.e. SFDC
You’ll develop basic consultative selling skills
You love executing win-back strategies for inactive customers
Strong communication skills, both written & spoken, in English and Arabic
If you are looking for hands-on involvement in crafting the strategic direction of Cisco and Customer Experience, we have a place for you.
