Cxo Advisor

**CxO advisor**

**About You**

You’re a highly versatile security leader with strong business acumen and deep understanding of customer CyberSecurity organisational, operational, business, and technical challenges.

You have broad architectural and operational understanding of CyberSecurity solutions, including how to best deploy technical solutions and programs for maximum return on investment.

You know how to overcome organisational challenges and objections when conveying value, impact, and business risk reduction from CyberSecurity solutions.

You understand their challenges and can relate with stories from prior experience, responding to support their asks and needs for advice, support, and guidance.

You’re a role model and motivated learner who actively mentors and sponsors others and participates in role communities.

You’re a visible industry thought leader with a demonstrable presence including blogs, social media following, white
- and point-of-view papers, presentations at industry events, etc.

**What You’ll Do at Cisco**
- Provides trusted support, advice and guidance on the latest trends and developments in CyberSecurity and how these can be used to provide lasting business value and impact for our customers.
- By establishing yourself as a trusted advisor and building lasting relationships, you’ll help bridge the communications gap between customer needs and what Cisco can offer.
- Identifies opportunities for Cisco to provide additional products and services that are aligned to achieving the customer’s CyberSecurity goals.

**Results and Outcomes**

You’ll proactively strengthen and expand Cisco’s presence and technology leadership in the CyberSecurity domain through externally visible activities such as blog posts, social media posts, papers, external speaking engagements and serving on external forums and boards.

You’ll continually acquire the knowledge and expertise necessary to pioneer new thinking and approaches. You’ll contribute new materials and innovative articles rather than solely parroting existing materials or campaigns.

You’ll have a strongly accretive impact on Cisco’s CyberSecurity business as evidenced by pipeline generation and supporting sales of products.

You’ll actively contribute to talent development, ensuring the principals of improving inclusion and diversity are honoured and promoted.

**Who You Will Work With**

The Cisco CX Technology Office provides technology leadership, horizon three (3) delivery, and specialized support skills to the APJC region. We engage directly with our top 100 Customers and Partners to help them achieve business and technical outcomes that add genuine and tangible value to their organizations.

The CXTO team comprises some of Cisco Services’ most experienced and sought-after senior technical talent in the region and operates with the highest standards of engagement, quality, and ethics.

**Who you are?**

Requirements/Preferred Experience:

- Bachelor or Masters degree in a relevant area, an MBA is preferred
- Certifications—CISSP, CRISC, CISA and CISM—and advantage.
- 15+ years relevant experience with at least five (5 )years as: a CISO, Head of Risk or equivalent in a major organization; Partner or Associate, Principal, or Managing Director in a ‘big 4+1’ company or other leading consulting organization; or a combination thereof.
- Proven experience and recognized as a thought leader in CyberSecurity in one or more industry verticals such as Financial Services; Service Provider; Manufacturing, Mining, Transportation, Oil and Gas, or Utilities; or Technology.
- A proven record of business leadership in a technical domain and experience in transformational or strategic programs, with evidence of where past contributions have a significant impact on business.
- Proven track record of C-suite engagement with an extensive personal contact base.
- Published author, conference speaker and social media presence.

**Why Cisco?**

WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accom