Cisco Sourcing Commodity Manager 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

329916253

Cisco Global Supplier Management (GSM) team is seeking a motivated Sourcing Commodity Manager for Photonics (Optical components). You will work in a highly impactful and dynamic organization collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers on early technology sensing and sourcing engagement.

We work closely with hardware design engineers across Cisco including early sensing and engagement to understand their product roadmap. You will lead and orchestrate the roadmap reviews between engineering and suppliers, find solutions, create proposals, and implement to meet business requirements, striking a balance between supply continuity, cost, and delivery.

You will

• Investigate and source next generation technology
• Align and influence engineering on roadmap and strategy
• Provide technical expertise, special knowledge and market trends to engineering
• Drive value engineering through ideation and execution

The Global Supplier Management (GSM) Organization is an industry leader in sourcing and supplier management that enable 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. Our team focus is to drive innovation as well as best in class cost, quality and delivery; in order to accomplish this you will work very closely with constituents across Supply Base, Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing, Marketing and Legal.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize 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).