Account Executive - Services & Software Buying Programs

Candidate must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Cincinnati, OH/Louisville, KY market.

Meet the Team

Our team is a specialized group focused on driving growth through high-impact Services and Buying Program solutions that deliver long-term value to our customers. We sit at the intersection of product sales, delivery, and customer experience, ensuring our clients achieve their desired business outcomes throughout the entire technology lifecycle. By collaborating across functional lines with partners and inside sales, we navigate high-complexity deals that typically span over 24 months. You will join a culture that values strategic interlock and consultative selling to secure the future of Cisco’s recurring revenue business. This is an exciting opportunity to act as a chief strategist for enterprise-scale agreements in a role that directly influences Cisco's market leadership.

Your Impact

Manage a strategic territory in Cincinnati by cultivating deep relationships with C-level executives to influence long-term growth and account retention. Lead the development of complex deal strategies that align Cisco’s services and software consumption models with specific customer business objectives. Drive the entire sales lifecycle for multi-architecture enterprise agreements to increase recurring revenue and ensure total value realization for the client. Utilize advanced analytics and discovery frameworks to identify customer pain points and provide precise weekly, monthly, and quarterly sales forecasts. Mentor junior team members and lead extended account teams to elevate collective knowledge of enterprise-scale service integration.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of sales experience managing high-complexity sales cycles with an average duration of 24 months or longer.
• 7+ years of experience managing a variable deal size ranging from $50K to over $1M.
• 7+ years experience with multi-architecture enterprise agreements and software consumption models.
• 7+ years experience using data to drive forecasts and implicate customer needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to influence account managers, specialists, and channel partners through strong technical knowledge.
• Experience tailoring market entry strategies to align with the specific decision criteria of Economic Buyers.
• Background in consultative selling within a strategic territory or large mix of accounts.
• Expertise in navigating the "Paper Process" and complex negotiations for enterprise-scale opportunities.
• Strong executive presence with a history of building trust-based relationships with C-level leadership.

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. 

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.