What You'll Do

　　Component planning and exception management for Passive and discrete, Linear materials to ensure continuity of supply to achieve Cisco’s revenue plans and support Customer commitments.

　　Fully understand the commodity landscape and partner with GSM to ensure supplier and commodity specific strategies exist to achieve Cisco business needs and requirements.

　　End-to-end supply planning (including co-planning with suppliers) for the related commodity.

　　Work cross-functionally with Supply Chain Operations (Regional Ops, GSM, Product Operations, GP&F, TnQ) and with suppliers and Hub partners to drive the component collaborative planning and execution process.

　　Develop a component demand supply plan: supply-demand balancing; supply availability; allocation management; delivery performance; upside flexibility investments.

　　Resolve escalated component shortages through active communication with relevant suppliers & regional stakeholders.

　　Manage/mitigate E&O through appropriate collaborative and analytical techniques.

　　Develop in partnership with Central GMO services an adequate analytics capability to orchestrate multiple streams of supply chain data to better understand supply continuity risks and make decisions.

　　Who You Are

　　Bachelor’s Degree with above 5 years of relevant working experience.

　　Significant and diverse supplier management experience preferred.

　　Strong industry knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedures is a plus.

　　Ability to develop and execute short, mid, and long term strategies

　　Expertise in negotiation, building strong relationships internally and externally, and conflict resolution

　　Adept at influencing decisions and developing solutions to complex business situations

　　Strong influencing, collaboration, communication, and change management skills.

　　Why Cisco

　　The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity.

　　Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services.

　　As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond.

　　Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work.

　　With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.

　　Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

　　Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.