Business Development Manager
Current* Managing and growing Cisco products & solutions to assigned territory * Primary focus of building and maintaining relationships with assigned and new customers and pitching Cisco’s various offerings and winning business across the Cisco range of products and services. * Profiling existing and new customer accounts, to estimate account potential. * Making presentations to Partners and positioning Ingram as a complete provider of IT Solutions. * Building pipeline of opportunities and improving win probability of each through focused sales efforts. * Winning profitable deals from managed accounts through deep engagement and negotiation. * Persistence in chasing sales goals while collaborating with different functions in Ingram, vendor and Partner ecosystem, with objective to win deals. * Working closely with Ingram and Vendors pre-sales to add technical and consultative value to customer with objective of getting preference over competition. * Liaison with key partners through whom customer’s business will get executed. * Proactive actions to keep Partners satisfied and continue to use Ingram as a preferred Distributor for Cisco and other solutions. * Keeping updated through regular training and self-development, especially Vendor’s priority solutions and products. * Actively aligning with Vendor, programs, marketing and other business development efforts. * Focus assigned Territory revenue by weekly reports and efforts to achieve quota. * Initiate, drive and orchestrate customer meetings for pipeline generation and close sales by leveraging Cisco’s resources * Experienced outside sales person covering the territory