Strategic Deals Acceleration – Global Security Sales

Cisco

Strategic Deals Acceleration Desk Specialist streamlining complex deals for Cisco Security. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to orchestrate and finalize high-stakes sales opportunities.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeRemote • Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $181,500 - $235,100 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in orchestrating complex deals across multiple functions, with strong financial modeling and analytical skills to ensure competitive and compliant deal structures. Proven ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and produce executive-level documentation to drive successful deal outcomes.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Complex Deal SupportFinancial ModelingPipeline ValidationCross-Functional CollaborationExecutive Communication

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Hard Skills

Financial ModelingDeal StructuringRisk AnalysisWin/Loss AnalysisCommercial Execution

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunication

Tools & Technologies

Letters of IntentStatements of Work

Industry Keywords

Enterprise SalesB2B TechnologyRevenue OperationsSales OperationsLegal Operations

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support Complex Deals: Orchestrate resources across sales, legal, finance, pricing, operations, product, and partner teams to operationalize and finalize deals.
Pipeline Validation and Risk Analysis: Collaborate with field leaders to inspect assigned pipelines, validate deal health, test close plans, identify slippage risks, document blockers, and recommend actions to ensure forecast accuracy.
Close Big Deals: Manage deal rooms, coordinate cross-functional follow-through, and develop escalation packages to drive forecast-critical opportunities to completion.
Deal Financial Modeling: Structure pricing, terms, ramp models, enterprise agreement options, consumption constructs, and financing scenarios to ensure deals are competitive, compliant, and commercially viable.
Win/Loss Analysis: Analyze closed deals to identify trends in wins and losses, capture competitive signals, pricing themes, and process blockers, and relay these insights to Competitive Intelligence, Product, Pricing, and Enablement teams.
Commercial Execution: Develop Letters of Intent, Statements of Work (SOWs), and approval packages while reducing ambiguity in non-standard requests to improve turnaround times.
Field Partnership: Co-own late-stage strategic opportunities with account teams while maintaining clear accountability for seller ownership, customer engagement, and internal approvals.
Product Feedback Loop: Document recurring blockers related to emerging or immature offers and provide prioritized feedback to product, pricing, support, and enablement teams.
Operating Discipline: Track desk engagement metrics, including cycle-time impact, exception cycles, bookings influenced, win-rate lift, forecast movement, and field satisfaction.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in enterprise sales, specialist sales, deal desk, commercial finance, pricing, revenue operations, sales operations, legal operations, contracting, or a related B2B technology function.
Proven experience supporting complex enterprise technology deals involving pricing, discounting, legal review, non-standard terms, finance approvals, or executive escalation.
Strong financial modeling, analytical, and business case development skills.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across sales, finance, legal, product, operations, and executive stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce executive-ready escalation summaries and deal narratives.
BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time
exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
80 hours of sick time off
optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer