Senior Manager - Strategy, Cisco Networking 1418911

Who we are

Cisco Networking, as Cisco's largest business, includes networking, server, cloud products, IoT, and Meraki businesses. These businesses build critical infrastructure and applications that provide information, connectivity, and security to millions of people, small businesses, and enterprises around the world.

What You'll Do

• As a Senior Strategy Manager and Strategy Leader for Cisco Networking:
• You will lead business strategy and investment opportunity projects from start-to-finish, structuring the problem statement and approach, identifying, and aligning with the appropriate set of partners, guiding cross-functional working groups and problem-solving efforts, synthesizing results and presenting to senior collaborators.
• You will collaborate with Cisco business units and cross-functional leadership to formulate long-term strategic priorities and plans related to e.g., organic and inorganic growth strategy, emerging industry trends, competitive dynamics, and internal business performance improvement.
• You will work cross-functionally across external and internal collaborators, partnering closely with Networking's product, engineering, finance, corporate development, business operations, sales, marketing and other teams
• You will be encouraged to become an expert in Cisco's businesses and have a deep understanding on the markets we serve and our competitors.
• Joining the Strategy team will give you a chance to explore highly complex problems, gain insight into the strategic issues that are forefront in the minds of the Cisco Networking leadership team, and form relationships with people across the entire organization.

Who You'll Work With

Our team is part of Cisco Networking Strategy group, whose charter includes the ongoing development and coordination of Cisco Networking strategy. Our team partners with senior leaders across Cisco Networking product, engineering, corporate development, business operations, finance, sales, marketing and other teams to craft and drive Cisco Networking strategy for profitability, innovation, growth, and market leadership.

Who You Are

Our Minimum Requirements for this Role are:

• An MBA degree or equivalent experience from a world-class institution.
• 4+ years of post-MBA work experience, including 1 - 3 years at a top-tier consulting firm, or corporate strategy.
• Possess strong analytical and financial abilities to work on sophisticated business issues with minimum supervision.
• B2B enterprise software experience with SDWAN and/or SASE tech focus
• Bring strong leadership and communication skills to work with senior executives across various geographies.
• In-depth knowledge of high-tech industry, with demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly in new areas.
• Excel in all areas of strategy development, including project management, business analysis, problem solving, verbal and written communication, consensus building, and people development.
• Demonstrated ability to become a future leader and be successful in an unstructured, team environment.
• THIS IS A HYBRID ROLE. You are able to come into our San Jose HQ offices 3x per week, or if based in San Francisco, a combo of 1x SJ and 2x in SF, each week.

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!

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize 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 important to us (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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial 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. 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 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.