Address Start Date: Mid-August 2024 - End Date : Sept 2025 (Duration: 1 year)
Location: London – Finsbury Circus / Bedfont Lakes, Feltham - United Kingdom
About The Opportunity
We now have a great opportunity for Intern that has; an interest in Marketing and is in their penultimate year of studies, to join our Sales team and work on our marketing initiatives. You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You'll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired.
What You’ll Do
- Utilize and expand your marketing and communications skills by completing a 1-year internship in a fast-paced, cross-functional Sales Team environment.
- Collate information and organization updates for and create our quarterly newsletter and monthly Wins communication working directly with the Management Team.
- Identify best practices with managers to draft e.g. top of mind and share this with the team.
- Work with Regional Sales Managers (RSM’s) to manage invitation, attendee list multi customer dinner and pipeline creation.
- Manage roadshow and pipeline creation with our Sales Engineering Managers (SEM’s).
- Consolidate all marketing, training, technical events in key countries and report in our Employee Community.
- Updating internal Employee Community Website and maintaining mailing lists.
- Working with Managers on CSR activities for the team.
- Gain insight into how a large, global sales organization functions.
- You will get to attend a variety of development opportunities, networking events, volunteer and social activities.
- Coverage CGEM Account How (data consolidation/accuracy – to be collected from Managers and sent to the analytics team)
Who Are You?
- Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in Marketing, Business/International Business or a related area.
- Be in your penultimate year of studies.
- You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, language skills beyond English are a plus.
- Team oriented, have strong communication skills and influencing skills.
- Driven and self-motivated with a sense of curiosity.
- Have a passion for digital, content and communications.
- Demonstrate marketing knowledge through either a past internship, coursework or work experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Market research and analysis
- Data analytics and insights
- Content creation
- Marketing project planning and execution
- Precise, resourceful, and able to prioritize under deadlines
- Leadership, interpersonal skills, creative thinker and problem solver
- Visa Sponsorship not offered with this role
Team Description
The CGEM EMEAR Inbound team is an exciting place to work as Cisco continues to transform. We are a global team committed to acting Beyond Borders. Our members are part of a truly global team, with more than 120 people, managing a $1b business, and over 30 nationalities, speaking 30+ languages. Working cross-functionally and overcoming silos is at our core.
Our vision is built on three major beliefs for our customers, partners and ourselves:
- Delivering Value beyond Connectivity
- Driving and obtaining Skills beyond Competencies
- The world is moving fast, so we all need to Change beyond Comfort
This vision is based on strategic key themes that are important for all of us, regardless of our role or reporting line:
- Customer Relevance
- Platform
- Global team
- Talent
The most important element holding us together is the culture that we shape as a team – beyond the CGEM EMEAR Inbound team, in Cisco. Are you someone who can…
- Always better yourself– strive for constant improvement, never rest
- Cisco First – wear the big Cisco hat
- Confident Humility –be competitive but humble
- Win – No Excuses – it’s not acceptable to say “I can’t because…”, the sky is the limit
- Be a delight in other’s lives
Why Cisco
We are changing the World. You will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives.
Our employees' ground-breaking ideas impact everything, from entertainment, retail, healthcare, and education, to public and private sectors, smart cities, and everyday devices in our homes. Here, that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact.
At Cisco, each person brings their own unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. Our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.
- We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.
- We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.
- We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.
Colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
