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Cisco Supply Chain was just confirmed for the 7th year running in the top 5 of the “Gartner’s annual Supply Chain Top 25” rank, which identifies supply chain leaders and highlights their standard processes. There’s never been a better time to join us!\nThe Global Supplier Management (GSM) Organization is an industry leader in sourcing and supplier management that enables sustained innovation and supply chain excellence. You will join a very motivated team that achieves record setting results and a fun group that helps each other be successful at work and play.\nOur team focus is to drive technology and product innovation, striking a balance between performance, quality, cost, high-volume manufacturing and delivery requirements. We accomplish this by collaborating very closely with external partners and suppliers, but also with all the internal cross-functional teams: Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing, Marketing and Legal.\nYou will work with all hardware engineering teams across Cisco, to understand their product roadmap and needs. You will drive early technology sensing across the industry, orchestrate roadmap reviews between Cisco and suppliers, identify and propose solutions, assess suppliers capabilities to meet both technical and business requirements.\nYour Impact\nYou possess solid technical background, expertise on Optics and Photonics Components technologies, knowledge of market trends and industry players. You have a good understanding of key processes, requirements and challenges related to design, fabrication, testing and quality of Optical products for Communication and Networking.\nYou combine technical acumen with business sensibility and attitude to interpersonal communication and relationship management. You'll use your knowledgeability, trustworthiness, and accountability to build strong partnerships both inside and outside Cisco, to drive sourcing activities and decisions in agreement with company strategy and goals.\nCisco Global Supplier Management (GSM) team is seeking a motivated Supplier Commodity Manager for “Optical Interconnects and Passive Optical Components for CPO & Pluggable Transceivers”. You will be part of a highly impactful and dynamic organization collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers.\nProvide industry knowledge and understanding of Optics and Photonics components fabrication technologies and market trends (cost, technology, supply chain ecosystem, etc.).\nCollaborate with Business Unit partners to: understand the long-term requirements, map requirements into supply base offering, work to close roadmap gaps, facilitate optimal component selection\nDefine and implement sourcing decision aligned with Commodity strategy, perform risk assessment and mitigation plans, identify and develop alternate technical solutions.\nBe part of large, sophisticated programs involving multiple players, locations and Business Units.\nBe responsible and accountable for supplier relationship management during development and NPI phase, until product release (including technical, commercial, protos delivery, and quality aspects)\nNegotiating, and driving all aspects/terms of legal agreements to protect and define development phase: NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement), DLA (Development and License Agreement), SOW (Statement of Work). \nExceptional data analytics and reporting skills, with the ability to translate complex data and requirements into clear technical and business insights.(Move It to your impact) \nAbility to develop and execute short-, mid-, and long-term strategies\nIdentify and promote solutions to complex technical and business situations\nMinimum Qualifications\nMS (or equivalent) in technical subjects, with 7+ years of relevant experience - Could be a combination of engineering design with business strategy or supply chain experience\nKnowledge and understanding of Optical technologies and fabrication processes (including III-V, SiPhotonics, PLCs, fiber arrays, free-space/discrete components and Systems for Optical Communications, etc.)\nDeep technical expertise on key Components (optical and non-optical) used in Optical Systems for communications and networking applications\nKnowledge of the Optical Communications, Photonics and Networking Industry and ecosystems\nPreferred Qualifications\nTechnical and business-related problem solving skills\nStrong interpersonal communication and relationship management skills\nDemonstrates leading constructive discussions, taking ownership, managing emotions with empathy, and supporting team growth\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $150,400.00 to $190,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\n\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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