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Join a company where innovation, transformation, and inclusion drive everything we do.\nYou’ll be part of a team that values collaboration, mentorship, and growth, with the opportunity to lead with purpose and build meaningful relationships with customers, partners, and colleagues.\nAs part of Cisco’s transformation journey, we are reimagining how we engage with customers across the BFSI segment, helping organizations adopt modern technologies and accelerate their digital transformation. From AI-powered sales and security solutions to partner-led innovation and data-driven customer engagement, you’ll help shape the future of Cisco’s business in India.\nWe’re looking for a strategic and customer-centric sales leader who can translate market opportunities into growth, build high-performing teams, and drive transformational GTM strategies across a complex and evolving market.\nWhat You’ll Do\nAs the Sales Leader - BFSI, you will lead a strategic portfolio of BFSI accounts and team across India, responsible for driving customer engagement, business growth, sales execution, and long-term account strategy.\nYou will serve as a key leader within Cisco’s India sales organization, partnering closely with customers, strategic partners, and cross-functional teams to create differentiated business outcomes.\nYou’ll act as a central orchestrator of Cisco’s GTM strategy across the region, bringing together sales, partners, marketing, operations, finance, and technology teams to 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developing and executing go-to-market strategies across complex enterprise markets.\nDemonstrated experience managing strategic customer relationships and influencing senior executives and decision-makers.\nStrong understanding of enterprise technology solutions, with experience across one or more areas such as networking, security, cloud, AI, or digital transformation.\nDemonstrated experience in sales planning, forecasting, pipeline management, account strategy, and execution.\nExperience working cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Partners, Finance, Operations, Product, and other stakeholders in a matrixed environment.\nStrong executive communication, influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.\nDemonstrated ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and evolving business environment.\n\n Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n 5+ years of direct people management experience, including leading, coaching, and developing high-performing sales professionals and/or sales leaders.\nExperience leading sales teams or strategic account portfolios within the BFSI / financial services sector.\nProven track record of driving business transformation and adopting modern sales models, including AI-enabled selling, digital sales, data-driven decision making, or next-generation GTM strategies.\nExperience developing and executing partner-led sales and ecosystem strategies, including co-selling, joint account planning, and partner enablement.\nStrong understanding of the Indian BFSI market, including key customer segments, business priorities, and technology trends.\nExperience working within a large, global, matrixed technology organization.\nDemonstrated experience building leadership pipelines and developing future sales leaders.\nMBA or equivalent advanced degree.\nFamiliarity with Cisco’s technology portfolio, solutions, and partner ecosystem.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:\nbe in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site\nbegin with screening or an interview\noriginate from a Cisco email address, and\nbe conducted across email, phone, or WebEx\nCisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.\nIf you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. 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