Managing Director - Sub-Saharan Africa South Africa Kenya or Nigeria Based

Country Operations

• Orchestrate and align the different Cisco segments operating in-countries
• Actively drive and achieve Operational Excellence
• Act as external point of contact for the countries; develop strategic relationships across entire ecosystem (Customers, Partner, Government, Competitors, and Interest Groups).
  

Sales Leadership

• Drive growth across all segments in all architectures; including Commercial, SP, Enterprise, Public Sector and Country Transformation business
• Develop a committed and differentiating Partner Landscape that deliver sustainable growth
• Develop, lead and orchestrate the Cisco business, customers and partners in-country to drive profitable growth, set and achieve stretch profit and revenue growth targets
• Knowledge, Confidence, Risk – Invest heavily in developing yourself and the teams to beat competition
• Sell business outcomes to customers and drive customer success
• Promote new business development and Innovation, i.e by bringing new (acquired, developed) products to market through most effective channe
  

Country Digitization

• Develop, champion and grow value based relationships across the ecosystem (political, business leaders, country influencers) drive a Digital agenda for the Countries
• Develop, improve and strengthen the Cisco brand in the region by representing all functions of the company; spokesperson for Cisco in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Role model being a Cisco Citizen and actively contribute to the country society with Cisco Technology and Cisco’s employee experience