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Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform designed for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises rely on our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure, reliable, and high-performing.
At Splunk, you’ll help organizations operate at their best while growing your own career alongside a collaborative and innovative team.
This is a remote role for someone who is based in the greater Calgary area.
Your Impact
As a Partner Sales Executive, you will own and lead strategic Partner relationships, serving as a trusted advisor while driving indirect sales growth, partner transformation, and go-to-market alignment across Cisco’s portfolio.
This role is highly relationship-driven, requiring strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence both internal stakeholders and external Partners.
Key responsibilities include:
Establishing, developing, and maintaining trusted advisor relationships with strategic Partners
Understanding Partner business models, strategies, and technical capabilities
Guiding Partner business strategies toward Cisco technologies, solutions, and programs
Driving adoption and expansion of Cisco products, services, and business practices
Leveraging market trends and insights to position Partners as preferred Cisco solution providers
Developing and executing strategic Partner account plans focused on performance optimization and business transformation
Building and strengthening Partner practices and capabilities while developing differentiated go-to-market strategies
Orchestrating Partner ecosystems aligned to Cisco’s technology portfolio to drive innovation, market expansion, and competitive differentiation
Collaborating closely with sales teams to align Partner capabilities with Cisco business priorities and co-sell opportunities
Advocating internally for Partner capabilities and integrating them into broader account and GTM strategies
Planning and driving demand generation activities that align customer needs with Partner offerings
Managing and optimizing Partner performance through forecasting, integrated planning, QBRs, incentive programs, and profitability initiatives
Key Areas of Focus
Specialization & Strategic Alignment
Influence and guide Partners to align with the full Cisco portfolio
Ensure Partners fully leverage Cisco programs, promotions, and resources
Expand Partner practices across key technologies, architectures, and services
Customer Engagement & Partner Accountability
Serve as a primary influencer in Partner investment decisions
Spend approximately 80% of time focused on:
Relationship orchestration
Strategic planning
Practice development
Business development activities
Sales Process & Deal Engagement
Participate across all stages of the sales cycle
Support varying levels of deal complexity, including:
Solution selling
Ecosystem opportunities
Software and architecture-led engagements
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Engage with business entities, regional leadership, and internal stakeholders
Coordinate specialists, solution engineers, and practice sellers to accelerate Partner readiness and solution development
Success Metrics
Success in this role will be measured by:
Annual business plan execution
Revenue growth against assigned targets
Year-over-year Partner business growth
Partner Value Index performance
ROI from investments and demand generation activities
Overall operational excellence and forecast accuracy
What You’ll Do
Manage and support 5+ large, complex, and strategically important Partners
Drive significant revenue growth and business impact across assigned accounts
Work with regional and national Partners, including Telcos and System Integrators with sophisticated Cisco practices
Collaborate with Cisco Partner Business Development teams to build complementary Partner alliances and ecosystems
Negotiate complex agreements involving:
Revenue sharing
Intellectual property rights
Go-to-market commitments
Build and execute large-scale growth initiatives leveraging extended internal resources and ecosystem Partners
Co-design transformative value propositions and ecosystem-wide solutions for executive and C-level audiences
Anticipate and address enterprise-scale challenges with customized strategic solutions
Strengthen long-term partnerships by championing Partner innovation internally
Connect Partners with strategic resources and innovation councils to align with next-generation technologies
Anticipate disruptive technology shifts and advise GTM leadership on future-proofing strategies
Ensure Partner governance frameworks align with global regulatory standards
Lead cross-functional task forces focused on strategic partnership challenges
Represent the organization as a thought leader at industry and global events
Demonstrate executive presence during high-stakes negotiations and strategic discussions
Deliver consultative engagement that unlocks large-scale opportunities
Drive alignment between Cisco corporate priorities and Partner ecosystem strategies
Minimum Qualifications
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Strong ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
Proactive, strategic, and results-oriented mindset
Experience in technology sales or a related industry
Preferred Qualifications
Successful candidates will demonstrate:
Strong executive presence and relationship-building skills
Strategic thinking and business planning capabilities
Experience working within complex Partner ecosystems
Ability to influence senior leadership and C-level stakeholders
Strong negotiation and consultative selling skills
Analytical and operational rigor in managing performance metrics and forecasting
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $248,300.00 to $319,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
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:
$261,800.00 - $389,100.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$242,300.00 - $371,300.00
* 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.