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DSE Deal Manager | Job Description

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) for the U.S. Public Sector you are responsible for structuring and drafting sales transactions with a lens towards transactional health, company guardrails and ensuring compliance with Governmental purchasing regulations. 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.

A strong background in Public Sector business with an understanding of Government procurement processes, Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) and Government budgeting is also highly desirable.

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

Requirements

You will have 4+ 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.

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.

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.

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.