Key Responsibilities include:
?Component planning and exception management for power supply inbound 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 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.

Requirements:
?Bachelor’s Degree with above 8 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.

Cisco Systems, Inc. (known as Cisco) is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San José, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other high-technology services and products.[4] Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, WebEx, and Jasper, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security, and energy management.