**What You'll Do**
As a Business Analysis Manager within the Global Planning Central Revenue Planning team, you will collaborate across Supply Chain Operations, perform data analysis, and incorporate business and operations insight to assess key operating plan variables. This role is key to meeting Cisco's financial objectives while navigating a dynamic business and operating environment.
**Responsibilities**
- Analyze current and historical data as a basis to forecast operating plan variables
- Partner with Global Manufacturing Operations to understand potential backlog movements, non-actionable backlog, and logistics revenue recognition
- Model scenarios to communicate potential risks and opportunities
- Adapt analysis and forecasts to changing business environments
- Shape automation by collaborating on cross functional initiatives and process improvements
**Who You'll Work With**
You will partner closely with several functions within Global Planning as well as with Global Manufacturing Operations in order to gain inputs, align assumptions and forecasts, understand business trends and drivers, and pursue automation opportunities.
**Who You Are**
You are highly effective at building relationships, collaborating, and leading conversations that influence and drive optimized decisions with multiple partners. You lead cross-functional teams to achieve results by identifying and aligning to shared goals, priorities, and commitments. You hold peers, partners, and yourself accountable to commitments.
You are a hard-working, curious person with passion for data analysis. You are able to assess, frame, and drive data centric decisions. You recognize underlying themes and patterns and reduce complex data to a few key conclusions that can easily be understood by others.
You provide thought leadership and see connections between supply chain actions and strategic business outcomes. You anticipate future threats and opportunities for our customers and businesses and makes decisions based on global business conditions and strategies.
You authoritatively present your own position despite resistance or unfavorable reactions from others, and handle disagreements and conflicts openly and directly. You have the conviction to try new things, make decisions, and raise concerns when needed to achieve desired business outcomes. You model and provide leadership examples for the organization.
You understand Cisco's business strategy and macro business environment and are able to align internal processes with corporate objectives. You can effectively represent that understanding in meaningful ways to others.
You are capable of leading conversations to influence and drive better decisions with multiple partners, often at the Director and VP levels.
**Our Minimum Qualifications for This Role**
- BA/BS degree and at least 5 years of Supply Chain experience (Cisco or Industry) in end-to-end planning processes, inventory management, handling product life-cycle, supply chain financials, and/or supply chain modeling experience; MBA is preferred.
- Outstanding executive level communication skills (written and verbal).
U.S. employees have **access** to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.