Cisco Strategy Planning & Operation Manager 

Japan, Minato 

665045867

Roles of Japan Strategy & Planning Manager:

Growth Strategy:

• Articulate and evolve Country-level strategies continuously to achieve market-beating topline growth in a profitable manner
• Align all organizations in Cisco Japan under the umbrella of Country-level strategies
• Incubate strategic initiatives such as new partnership and alliances

GTM Model Evolution:

• Lead market segmentation to design sales coverage model targeted to the needs of specific customer segments
• Play PMO role in cross-functional initiatives targeted to drive company-wide transformation toward recurring business model
• Manage multi-year transition of the changes

Resource Planning and Mobilization:

• Allocate resources across Cisco Japan based on the strategic priorities and growth prospects in changing market environment
• Design and execute organizational structure changes
• Set goals and incentives to all sales agents to drive desired outcome
• Drive sales training and skill development efforts to enable both short-term growth and long-term transformation
• Lead productivity improvement initiatives

Management Review Cadence:

• Organize regular business reviews as the key Plan-Do-Check-Action cycle to supervise businesses across Cisco Japan, solve problems in a timely manner, and enable progresses
• Provide update to the Worldwide and APJC leadership

Market and Business Intelligence:

• Collect, analyze, and share key insights to enable informed decisions at all levels
• Monitor alarming signs on business performance, market share, and competitors to trigger alerts and call to actions in a timely manner

Company-wide project management:

• Set up and facilitate meetings and check the progress of each task for projects involving various departments within the company
• Appropriately assess project
  status

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in business or strategy planning or related roles
• Experience in IT industry preferred
• Native level Japanese and business-level English for both written and verbal communication including presentation
• Ability to respond fast, prioritizing issues under high-pressured sales environment
• Eagerness to work in cross-functional and cross-cultural team environment (Strong Team Player)
• Strong interest in innovative technologies that can change the world
• Positive can-do attitude
• Ability to influence both executive and operational counterparts to push organizations to move forward