Cisco Strategy & Planning Manager Cloud AI 

United States, North Carolina, Cary 

611281069

The application window is expected to close on: April 25th, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

You will be a business partner to the Global CAI Platform sales leaders and Region specialist teams. This highly visible role will actively contribute to shaping strategic deals within the CAI portfolio. You will engage with Sales leaders, the Specialist S&P organization, CAI Sales Specialists, Business Units, Finance, and other cross-functional organizations.

Role & Responsibilities include:

• Competitive Deal Support: Lead deal structuring for competitive deals ensuring Cisco is optimally positioned.
• Drive key GTM initiatives and programs: Accelerate select initiatives and sales-play programs.
• Strategic Planning: Assess business trends using bookings, pipeline, and product-specific data to drive appropriate business accountability, operational efficiency gains, and GTM strategy understanding. Software licensing and offer structure knowledge a plus.
• Cross-functional engagement & alignment: Drive cross organizational collaboration, alignment, and execution with Sales, Finance, and the BU.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of strategy, operations, or related experience.
• Commercial Finance / deal structuring experience.
• Ability to interpret business trends and make recommendations to Senior Leadership.
• Business Insight – Proven understanding of Cisco’s sales cycle, organization, and GTM objectives: sales, channels, and services.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong analytical skills and proficiency with business intelligence tools.
• Ability to influence and govern strategically.
• Skilled at interfacing cross-functionally at multiple levels of leadership.
• Results and metric oriented.
• Minimum BA/BS; MBA a plus.
• Basic understanding of the following tools: Excel (Pivot-Tables, etc.), FINBI, PowerPoint (presentation building), MDM, CCW, SFDC, Cisco Ready, & MBR.