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Recent engagements have included designing operating models for new fulfillment capabilities, benchmarking Cisco against competitors, and building analytical business cases for significant inventory and sourcing decisions.\nYour Impact\nAs a Strategy & Planning Manager, you will own a workstream within a larger strategic engagement and work closely with the Engagement Lead. You will be accountable for structuring the problem, leading the analysis, engaging stakeholders, and developing a clear recommendation that leadership can act on.\nYou will combine quantitative analysis, business judgment, external benchmarking, and stakeholder management to develop a point of view, clearly articulate trade-offs, and influence senior leaders toward informed decisions.\nWhat You’ll Do\nYou will own a workstream end-to-end, from problem definition and structuring through analysis and final recommendation.\nYou will build the quantitative analysis that underpins strategic decisions, including financial models, scenarios, business cases, and analytical frameworks, using clearly defined assumptions where data is incomplete.\nYou will independently manage stakeholder relationships across Business Units, Planning, Sourcing, Logistics, Channel, and Finance, bringing together conflicting inputs and driving alignment without unnecessary escalation.\nYou will conduct external benchmarking and competitive analysis where relevant, translating findings into clear implications and recommendations for Cisco.\nYou will develop and defend a clear point of view, articulate key trade-offs, and confidently respond to challenge from senior stakeholders.\nYou will present your workstream findings to senior leaders and contribute to the broader engagement storyline and recommendation.\nYou will guide analysts supporting your workstream by reviewing their analysis, strengthening problem structuring, and developing their communication and presentation skills.\nWho You’ll Work With\nYou will collaborate with Business Units, Supply Chain Planning, Sourcing, Logistics, Channel, Finance, and senior business stakeholders across Cisco.\nYou will also work closely with the broader Strategy & Planning team and Engagement Leads on cross-functional strategic engagements.\nWho You Are\nYou are a structured, analytical, and commercially minded problem solver who is comfortable working with ambiguity and incomplete information.\nYou can quickly break down open-ended problems, determine the key questions that need to be answered, build a fact base, and turn analysis into a clear recommendation.\nYou are confident working directly with senior stakeholders, can navigate conflicting perspectives, and are comfortable defending your point of view with data and business logic.\nYou communicate top-down and answer-first, ensuring that your recommendations are clear, concise, and actionable.\nMinimum Qualifications\n7+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or supply chain operations.\nProven experience owning workstreams from problem definition through completion.\nDemonstrated ability to structure open-ended and loosely defined business problems into an actionable analytical framework.\nStrong ability to build quantitative models from incomplete data using clearly stated assumptions.\nExperience independently managing relationships with senior stakeholders.\nStrong ability to communicate top-down and lead with the answer rather than the analysis.\nDemonstrated ability to form, communicate, and defend a recommendation under challenge.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in operations or supply chain consulting, particularly in operating model design, inventory, network design, or process improvement.\nExperience mentoring, coaching, or reviewing the work of junior analysts.\nExperience with analytical tools such as Python, SQL, Power BI, or Tableau.\nExperience working across global teams, geographies, and time zones.\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.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:\nbe in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site\nbegin with screening or an interview\noriginate from a Cisco email address, and\nbe conducted across email, phone, or WebEx\nCisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.\nIf you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. 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