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Strategy & Planning Manager 1398438

What You Will Do
As a Strategy and Planning Manager, you will be a crucial part of the Office of the COO (Chief Operating Officer) team. We amplify the impact of the COO in driving Cisco's Transformation, through driving collaboration and improvisation. In this role, you will be responsible for driving key cross-functional priorities and programs. In order to achieve these objectives, you will :
  • Lead major workstreams/projects on pivotal initiatives (individually and/or with analysts on the team)
  • Drive cross-functional engagement and alignment on key strategy initiatives and support execution to drive successful outcomes in a matrixed environment
  • Provide sound and data-driven business insights, analyze business performance and provide recommendations
Who You’ll Work With
As part of office of the COO, you will build positive relationships with the ONEx (Operations + Customer Experience) leadership and business partners. You will work closely with your counterparts in the broader organization to help drive organization-wide initiatives.
Who You Are
You are a structured problem-solving leader with the ability to break down sophisticated and ambiguous problems into component parts. Your creative ways of resolving issues is evident in your abilities to lead and enjoy strategic and tactical work. You conduct yourself with an executive-level presence. Your communication style in writing/PowerPoint presentations and speaking/emailing is compelling and precise. You simplify the complicated and present to senior-level partners and leaders. Through your skills of crafting discussions, you drive outcomes.

As a collaboration and partnership expert, you have outstanding cross-organization collaboration-building skills, including the ability to influence teams with multiple priorities. You are a dynamic team player and able to build senior-level and peer-to-peer relationships across a diverse audience in order to challenge and mold perspectives.

Your ownership mindset means that you have high initiative, self-starting capabilities and can drive accelerated progress often without decision-rights. You demonstrate the ability to identify and seize opportunities for impact in ambiguous contexts without direction or oversight. You have a sense of humbleness with no job being too big or too small to undertake.

Your executional excellence is demonstrated through your organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, high sense of responsibility and your ability to take on a wide range of high priority tasks in support of the leadership team. You are diligent and always deliver high quality work. You are able to multitask and understand how to prioritize tasks based on importance versus immediacy.

Minimum Requirements
  • around 7 years experience supporting senior executives
  • BA/BS in business, economics, math, science
  • MBA
  • demonstrated ability to access and protect high-level, sensitive and confidential information
  • experience in consulting, business operation or strategy & planning roles in a large, tech company preferred
Cisco offers an outstanding employee benefits package including to health insurance (health, dental, vision), 401k matching of 4.5% annually, almost 9 weeks of paid time away including 20 days PTO, 10 days for volunteering, your birthday, 10 holidays and Cisco Day For Me scheduled wellness days.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please, contact us to request accommodation.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. :

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire salaries in U.S. locations. For non-sales roles, the hiring ranges reflect base salary and do not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive target, and do not include equity or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, and relevant education, certifications or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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 travelling 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 size 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 recognise our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

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! #WeAreCisco


Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. 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. 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 pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate 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.

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