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Strategy & Planning Manager

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Location: Cisco Way, San Jose, CA, USA Posted: Mar 22, 2022

Job Description

What You'll Do

The Office of the CEO is a nimble team which partners with the Executive Leadership Team to ensure Cisco leads in the new era of technology disruption. Cisco is moving rapidly to transform and accelerate our business and improve experiences for our employees, partners, customers and communities.

Role and Responsibilities

As a Strategy and Planning Manager in the Office of the CEO, you will be responsible for driving the execution of strategic initiatives as identified by the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). Areas of focus:

  • Corporate Planning: Drive Quarterly Business Reviews, Long Range Strategy and Annual Planning which includes...partnering with Senior Leadership to identify goals for corporate plans, collaborating with partners to innovate new metrics and views on behalf of the ELT, developing templates which serve as guides for our Business Entities and functions, compiling and synthesizing key priorities and financials and improving processes to facilitate Cisco’s business growth
  • Strategic Program Management: Develop, nourish and manage critical relationships across a diverse set of stakeholders to...create agendas for ELT planning discussions, lead logistics for ELT planning meetings, develop and track high priority action items for the company, innovate key dashboards for Cisco’s Board of Directors and partner with leads to source periodic Board updates

Who You Are

A highly motivated, organized and team-oriented business strategy and planning manager. You have strong analytical and people skills, and are able to deliver results while working across diverse cross-functional teams. You are collaborative, flexible, empathetic and love to learn new skills with a positive mindset. You also possess excellent attention to detail and communications skills, and the ability to lead horizontally across multiple projects while managing the inter-dependencies between them.

Education

  • Bachelors Degree required (a plus if quantitative – i.e. Business, Economics, Engineering etc.)
  • Masters Degree / MBA preferred

Experience

  • Project / program management experience in a highly cross functional environment required
  • 2+ years in strategy and planning, management consulting, or product management is preferred
  • Experience in either business operations, finance, engineering, or product marketing a plus
  • Experience developing materials / recommendations for and interacting with senior leaders a plus

Skills

  • Demonstrated collaboration and ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills required, both at peer and executive levels
  • Proficiency in using productivity tools, MS suite of products (Power Point skills required)
  • Strong organizational skills, high attention to detail, and data / analytical capabilities required
  • Strong leadership / problem solving skills, and demonstrated comfort with structuring ambiguity
  • Understanding of Cisco’s Business Processes, Functional & Operations Processes a plus

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

About Cisco

Cisco manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. Cisconians use technology to enable possibility, innovation and success.

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