Job ID: 2001252

Meet the Team 

Cisco’s Distribution Planning Team is a vital part of our supply chain operations. Our mission is to enable Distribution bookings revenue, develop inventory strategies, optimize costs, and deliver a differentiated partner and customer experience. Our team leads collaborative planning processes to achieve critical business outcomes for Cisco and its Partners.  

Your Impact 

As a Distribution Planning Manager, you will lead strategic planning processes to deliver business-critical outcomes while optimizing costs and enhancing partner/customer experiences. 

• Trusted advisor guiding Disti Partners/customers as face of Cisco Supply Chain

• Planning Disti bookings and shipments to meet quarterly Revenue targets   

• Plan inventory targets to ensure availability / service level, meet Disti/customer requirement at optimum cost (lower ageing and excess mitigation).

• Successful launch & ramp of New Products 

• Managing Backlog and order escalation support

• Drive process innovation through data/analytics, drive change management & productivity 

Minimum Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points - these should be clearly defined, objective, non-comparative, relevant, and quantifiable to appropriately evaluate applicants – not including soft skills): 

• 3+ years of experience in Supply Chain function

• Hands-on experience in Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR), inventory management & product lifecycle management  

• MBA with experience in Operations management

• Experience in ERP, tools & dashboards ( Demantra, Kinaxis, Tableau, etc..)

• Knowledge of supply chain Financials & Sales process

Preferred Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points:  these can include soft skills)

• Ability to collaborate across Partner, Sales, Finance and Supply Chain teams

• Exceptional Communication & Influencing skills to lead conversations across stakeholders (Internal & External)

• Reporting and analytics skills to analyze huge data sets to drive business insights

• Ability to work in a volatile, complex & ambiguous business environment

• Influence and drive change with speed  

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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best. 

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Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

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