Account Executive - Portfolio - Qatar

Meet the Team

Join Cisco’s high-performing Sales team in Qatar, where we partner with forward-thinking organizations to drive digital transformation on a national scale. You will collaborate with a diverse group of professionals committed to expanding Cisco’s impact across the region, leveraging deep market insight and fostering lasting relationships within government and enterprise sectors.

Your Impact

Role

As an Account Executive, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Cisco’s future by leading one of our most strategic accounts—a technology-driven organization at the forefront of AI, cloud, and digital infrastructure in Qatar and beyond. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive growth, expand Cisco’s influence, and build trusted partnerships within the accounts by:

• Acting as the account executive within a larger account team for a designated high-impact customers.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to scale revenue streams aligned with national priorities and digital transformation goals.
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with senior executives, government stakeholders, and technology leaders.
• Developing and executing a 1-3 year strategic account plan aligned with the client’s mission, business objectives, and long-term vision.
• Identifying and pursuing opportunities to increase Cisco’s value across strategic initiatives.
• Handling business reporting, pipeline visibility, and forecasting with precision.
• Leading innovation engagements focused on operational efficiency, cost optimization, and modernization.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven years of experience in the technology sector, ideally with exposure to large accounts.
• Proven success in running and growing strategic accounts
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills.
• Proven ability to engage and influence C-level executives and senior stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of Cisco’s portfolio including networking, data center, cloud, security, and AI solutions.
• Candidate must be currently based in Qatar, with prior experience in the Qatar market.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in Arabic is a strong advantage.
• Regional experience in the Qatar or broader Middle East market.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and executive engagement skills.
• Experience working across cross-functional and virtual teams.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Passion for technology and enabling innovation
  
  

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.