Account Executive - Portfolio - Pakistan, Karachi

Karachi, Pakistan
Full-time
Listed Nov 15, 2026

Skills

Agile
CRM
Cybersecurity
Sales

Job description

Meet the Team

At Cisco, we connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. Our Pakistan Sales team is a high-performing, collaborative group dedicated to accelerating digital transformation, cyber resilience, and AI readiness across the region’s most critical organizations. We partner closely with industry leaders—particularly across the financial services and banking sector—to solve complex technology challenges and modernize mission-critical infrastructure. As part of this team, you will collaborate with seasoned Solution Engineers, product specialists, and regional leadership in an agile, customer-first environment that celebrates innovation and impactful business outcomes.

Your Impact

As an Account Executive based in Karachi, you will serve as the primary account orchestrator and strategic advisor for a defined portfolio of high-impact enterprise accounts, with a core focus on Pakistan’s banking and financial services sector. You will build and sustain trusted C-level relationships, uncovering strategic customer priorities and translating them into robust multi-architecture technology roadmaps. By aligning Cisco’s secure networking, next-generation cybersecurity, and emerging AI infrastructure solutions with customer objectives, you will drive sustainable cross-portfolio revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities:

•Lead C-Suite Engagement: Build and sustain multi-level relationships with C-level executives (CIOs, CISOs, CTOs) and key decision-makers across the banking sector to position Cisco as a strategic innovation partner.

•Orchestrate Account Strategy: Develop and execute comprehensive account plans and engagement strategies to achieve quarterly and annual sales commitments.

•Drive Cross-Portfolio Growth: Create demand and lead complex deal cycles across core secure networking (Routing, Switching, Wireless, Firewall), advanced cybersecurity, and AI infrastructure solutions.

•Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Portfolio Solution Engineers, architectural specialists, and certified channel partners to build differentiated, competitive customer proposals.

•Maintain Pipeline & Governance: Manage opportunity qualification, pipeline progression, and accurate forecasting within Cisco CRM tools while navigating internal deal approval and contracting workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

•Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

•3 years of direct, quota-carrying enterprise technology solution sales experience.

•Demonstrated track record managing enterprise accounts within the Banking and Financial Services sector in Pakistan.

•Proven experience selling enterprise networking, cybersecurity, or cloud/data center technologies.

•Current local presence and authorization to work based in Karachi, Pakistan.

Preferred Qualifications

•Experience working with or for multinational technology vendors in the Pakistan enterprise market.

•Deep domain knowledge of core secure networking (enterprise routing/switching, wireless, next-gen firewalls), cybersecurity architectures, and emerging AI-driven network solutions.

•Established network of executive and C-level relationships across top-tier Pakistani commercial and state banks.

•Proven ability to orchestrate cross-functional specialist teams, Solution Architects, and ecosystem partners through 6–12 month sales cycles.

•Strong track record of consistent sales quota over-achievement and accurate CRM forecasting discipline.

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.