Component Planning and Exception Management Specialist

Key Responsibilities:

1. Supply Continuity: Manage and plan components for power supply to ensure continuous supply, supporting Cisco’s revenue plans and customer commitments.
2. Commodity Landscape: Gain a deep understanding of the commodity landscape and collaborate with Global Supply Management (GSM) to develop supplier and commodity-specific strategies that meet Cisco’s business needs.
3. Supply Planning: Perform end-to-end supply planning, including co-planning with suppliers for related commodities.
4. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Supply Chain Operations, GSM, Product Operations, GP&F, TnQ, suppliers, and Hub partners to drive collaborative component planning and execution processes.
5. Demand Supply Plan Development: Create and manage a component demand supply plan focusing on:

• Supply-demand balancing
• Supply availability
• Allocation management
• Delivery performance
• Upside flexibility investments

1. Shortage Resolution: Actively communicate with relevant suppliers and regional stakeholders to resolve escalated component shortages.
2. E&O Management: Use collaborative and analytical techniques to manage and mitigate Excess & Obsolete (E&O) inventory.
3. Analytics Capability: Develop an analytics capability in partnership with Central GMO services to orchestrate multiple streams of supply chain data, enhancing supply continuity risk understanding and decision-making.

Who You Are:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Experience: Over 8 years of relevant working experience.
• Supplier Management: Significant and diverse experience in supplier management preferred.
• Industry Knowledge: Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedures is a plus.
• Strategic Development: Ability to develop and execute short, mid, and long-term strategies.
• Negotiation Skills: Expertise in negotiation, relationship building, and conflict resolution.
• Influence and Collaboration: Adept at influencing decisions, developing solutions to complex business situations, and possessing strong collaboration, communication, and change management skills.

Why Cisco

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

We embrace digital transformation, helping our customers implement changes in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software and security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns, and protects. No other company can do what we do.

But “Digital Transformation” is just a buzzword without a culture that fosters 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!

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