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Your Impact
- As a Cisco EDGE Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in promoting Cisco's incubation program to potential customers, partners, and key collaborators within the Nigerian SMME landscape. You will lead the complete incubation program lifecycle, delivering both sales and technical knowledge to drive business growth and job creation. This exciting role requires a blend of technical expertise, a business approach, and strong communication skills to optimally enable SMME's.
Responsibilities:
- Design and Manage Incubation Lifecycle Program: Align with Cisco's goals, purpose, and enterprise development objectives to build and lead an effective incubation program.
- Revenue Generation: Drive revenue generation through the provisioning of efficient and effective enablement programs with SMMEs.
- Awareness Programs: Plan and implement awareness programs and campaigns to promote the Cisco EDGE program.
- Brand Monitoring: Monitor brand movement, pricing, and distribution penetration within the SMME market.
- Event Management: Coordinate industry events, handle invitations, and maintain attendance records.
- Relationship Management: Develop and maintain strong communication and business relationships with SMMEs, industry partners, and key collaborators.
- EDGE Center Utilization: Drive the utilization and occupancy of the Cisco EDGE center.
- Technical Demonstrations: Deliver demonstrations and technical proof of concepts to showcase the value of the Cisco portfolio.
- Solution Design: Build and review project work, including design recommendations (High Level Design, Low Level Design), implementation plans, and organizational change strategies.
- Software Skills: Apply software skills and tools to configure, deploy, and troubleshoot Cisco products and solutions.
- Technical Advisor: Build demonstration capabilities within the SMME's and serve as a trusted technical advisor.
- Architectural Solutions: Help SMME partner technical sales teams design innovative architectural solutions that drive strategic objectives.
- Business Reviews: Perform monthly and quarterly business reviews.
- Feedback Relay: Relay customer feedback to Cisco to improve products and services.
- General Office Admin: Lead general office tasks, including maintaining a clean and professional workspace and leading demo facilities.
- Center Management: Own the center's demo bookings and office utilization.
- Act as the Face of Cisco: Represent Cisco authoritatively at the EDGE center.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BSc Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- 1-3 years of relevant work experience in pre- and post-sales roles.
- CCDA or CCNP certification.
- Business architecture design and consulting.
- Effective written and verbal communication and social skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CCIE or CCDE certification.
- Basic knowledge of software programmability, automation, orchestration, and virtualization.
- Developing presentation skills.
- Experience working independently and as part of a team.
- Self-learner and desire to expand Cisco knowledge.
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