Account Executive - Portfolio - Service Provider
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at Cisco. Riyadh · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Run complex sales cycles and assemble solutions across portfolios to grow accounts and keep customers over the long term
- Advise senior executives on technology plans, connecting purchase decisions to customer business goals
- Shape account plans using market changes and competitor insights to improve customer solutions
- Use CRM and sales trends to build forecasts and weekly commitments for regional planning
What you bring
- You speak Arabic and English fluently to work with regional customers and global colleagues
- You have account management or technical sales experience in service provider, enterprise or commercial markets
- You understand secure networking across switching, wireless, routing and firewalls
- You have managed sales opportunities and forecasts using CRM platforms
Who this fits
This role suits a mid-level seller comfortable with complex, consultative technology deals and executive conversations. It is a full-time hybrid role in Riyadh, with a stated workweek of forty-eight hours.
From the employer
Meet the Team
- We are a dynamic sales organization focused on accelerating digital transformation for high-profile Service Provider, Enterprise, and Commercial accounts within the Saudi Arabian market.
- Our team operates as the central engine for regional growth, orchestrating complex, cross-portfolio solutions that align Cisco's technology with critical customer business goals.
- We pride ourselves on a high-energy, collaborative vibe where technical expertise meets strategic sales orchestration to deliver market-leading outcomes.
- The team is diverse and globally-minded, offering an exciting opportunity to influence the technological landscape of the Middle East through innovative secure networking architectures.
Your Impact
- Orchestrate complex sales cycles and competitive deal packing to drive sustainable cross-portfolio growth and long-term account retention.
- Advise C-suite executives and key decision-makers on transformative technology roadmaps to influence high-value purchasing decisions and ensure alignment with customer business outcomes.
- Implement a customer-first account strategy by employing market trends and competitive insights to deliver measurable improved solutions.
- Analyze CRM data and sales performance trends to create accurate forecasts and weekly commitments that support regional business planning.
Minimum Qualifications
- Fluency in both Arabic and English to optimally support regional customers and internal global partners.
- Professional experience in account management or technical sales within the Service Provider, Enterprise, or Commercial sectors.
- Technical knowledge of core secure networking technologies including switching, wireless, routing, and firewalls.
- Experience handling sales pipelines, opportunity prospecting, and forecasting within CRM platforms.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience working with international technology vendors or in global business environments.
- Background in pre-sales or solutions engineering with a deep understanding of sophisticated technical architectures.
- Shown ability to navigate long-term, sophisticated sales cycles ranging from 6 to 18 months.
- Strong consultative negotiation skills with the ability to address objections and secure commitments at the executive level.
- Experience positioning architectural solutions against key industry competitors in the networking and security space.
• Nature of the Work: Hybrid Full Time
• Hours of work: 48 hours per week
• Benefits: Healthcare and Insurance, Employee Stock Purchase program, Flexible Spending Benefit, Flex and Schooling Allowances and many more.
• Application start and end date: Starting 3 of Nov, 2026 for approx. 4-6 weeks
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.