Deal Strategy & Execution Manager

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back. 

Role 
As a Deal Manager (DM) you are responsible for structuring and drafting sales transactions with a lens towards transactional health and company guardrails. You will be an expert on Cisco’s buying programs, draft Order Documents and support sales in customer facing negotiations. DMs are confident and comfortable in customer conversations; negotiation, articulation of Cisco and Splunk buying programs and presenting to customer and internal partners. 

Responsibilities 

Facilitate Strategic Deals. Be an expert on Cisco and Splunk buying programs and metrics. Meet with teams to help determine deal structure by understanding the impact to ACV/ARR/iACV, internal treatment, best possible solutions, utilization of programs, within appropriate guardrails. Assist and drive conversations, help to coordinate related parties, next steps, gaps, and escalations. 

Manage custom agreements from end to end, negotiate directly with customers, facilitate internal back-end partners, draft key business language and adhere to internal systems and processes. 

Provide sales training and enablement of deal structure, programs, related pricing and be the trusted partner and advisor to sales leadership. 

Requirements 

You have 5+ years of strategic deal management experience supporting sales, understanding and adhering to programmatic company guardrails and collaborating closely with internal resources in a fast-growing software enterprise company. 

Extremely articulate with demonstrated ability to interface, influence, and work with a wide variety of individuals at all levels of the organization. 

Self-motivated and thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing environment and flexibility to support business needs outside of standard working hours, Bachelor's degree required and experience in sales, best practices, financial planning and analysis or sales operations analysis preferred; MBA a plus 

Excellent Communication Skills, Strong Problem-Solving Skills, Detailed Oriented, & strong MS Office  and CRM skills required 

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. 

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.

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