Cisco Supplier Commodity Manager 

United States, California, San Jose 

805188051

The application window is expected to close on: April 16, 2025.

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

Strategic Sourcing: Identifying and evaluating potential suppliers, developing sourcing strategies, and selecting the best suppliers based on technology, price, quality, guarantee supply, supply flexibility, delivery time, and sustainability factors.

Supplier Management: Building strong business relationships with key suppliers (account team and executives), monitoring their performance, and addressing any issues. You will be meeting with the suppliers face to face on regular basis to stay engaged and informed on the new technology developments and supply chain.

Market Analysis: Tracking market trends, price fluctuations, and supply chain disruptions to anticipate potential risks and opportunities. Identifying and prepare data driven industry sensing reports for the assigned technologies.

Commodity Strategy: Developing and executing on the agreed upon Commodity Strategy for the assigned technologies and suppliers. You will collaborate with Sourcing Commodity Managers, Product Operations, Business Units, Component Engineering, Design Engineering, Component Supply Planning, and others to develop the sourcing strategy. You will present and obtain the required approvals on the documented sourcing strategy.

Operational Management: Enabling the best industry cost, supply capacity, supply flexibility, best quality, material delivery as per the forecast, expedite material with the suppliers, cancel open orders, pushout open orders, track & report open financial liabilities to finance, maintain data accuracy, return to vendor inventory which is not needed/bad inventory, reimbursement, Last-time buys, Advance Purchases, Manage life cycle of the component, other operational activities which may be added in the future as per business requirements. Prepare reports and share with the management, as requested.

Negotiation & Request for Quote: Leading and delivering the Quarter over Quarter cost reductions. You will collaborate with the Sourcing Commodity Managers to obtain the list of the New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, size the incremental spend for the suppliers, and leverage that in your negotiation to enable additional cost savings for Cisco. Responsible to release the Request for Quote to the suppliers, using internal tools, obtaining the required information from the suppliers, validating the accuracy of the information provided by the suppliers, and assigning the split award in the internal tools by the given timeframe.

Contract Negotiation: Negotiate and complete the legal contracts, such as, Master Purchase Agreement, Statement of Work, Letter of Agreements and any other legal contracts with the suppliers. You will work closely with the legal team on the contract terms and conditions.

Identify Opportunities: Use the evaluation results to identify areas for improvement.

Develop a Plan & Monitor Performance: Build a plan for improving the supplier's performance, including deadlines for implementation. Track supplier’s performance.

Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating potential supply chain risks, such as geopolitical instability, natural disasters, and supplier disruptions

Advance Purchases, Risk Buy-Orders, Last Time Buys: Work with the internal teams to collect the Advance Purchase, Risk-Buy Orders and Last-time buys requirements. You will be responsible to document the requirements as per the process, obtain required approvals and execute. You will be responsible for documenting the open financial liabilities and reporting to finance.

Initiatives/Projects: Lead and participate in organization initiatives/projects as required by the organization. This includes process and tool improvements. Time to time You will be required to participate in the User Acceptance testing to test and validate the tools and reports.

Supplier White Paper: Accountable to draft the executive supplier White Paper as required by the leadership team.

Other Future Business responsibilities may be added later as per business requirements for this position.

5+ years of cross-functional Supply Chain experience

5+ years of proven experience negotiating and communicating with suppliers.

5+ years of experience in Global Supplier Management

Relevant certifications contract management, or supply chain

Previous experience in commodity management, or supply chain operations

Thorough understanding of commodity markets, price fluctuations, and factors influencing market dynamics