Cisco Strategy & Planning Manager Cloud AI 

United Kingdom, England, London 

238185645

What You'll Do:

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.

Who You Are

A trusted advisor who is proactive, adept at challenging the status quo and executing a strategy extremely well. You possess strong analytical abilities, as you must evaluate all aspects of a deal, including potential risks and benefits. You will be a standout colleague, who always has your teammate's back, and encourages others to achieve success. You will be the strategic thinker analytical addition we need. You are the missing link who understands the numbers and is curious enough to push limits and flexible enough to enjoy the variety.

Skills and experience desired:

• 5+ years of strategy, operations, or related experience.
• Commercial Finance / deal structuring experience preferred.
• Minimum BA/BS; MBA a plus.
• 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.
• 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.
• Basic understanding of the following tools: Excel (Pivot-Tables, etc.), FINBI, PowerPoint (presentation building), MDM, CCW, SFDC, Cisco Ready, & MBR.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognise our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).