Strategy & Planning Manager – Campus and Branch Networking

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Oversee the executive customer engagement program for the SVP/GM, focusing on sponsored accounts and key customer interactions.

• Manage program goals, prepare executives, and track outcomes to enhance engagement effectiveness.

• Create executive briefings, agendas, talking points, and preparatory materials.

• Facilitate readiness discussions, address gaps and risks, and make decisions ahead of customer meetings.

• Monitor commitments and follow-up actions, assign responsibilities and deadlines, ensure completion, and collect outcomes and recurring themes.

• Lead or assist in strategic and analytical projects identified by the Chief of Staff.

• Break down business challenges into actionable work plans, utilizing data-driven approaches to validate assumptions and provide strategic insights.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing teams to align stakeholders and guarantee cohesive execution.

• Develop repeatable templates, workflows, and tracking systems to enhance efficiency, transparency, and consistency.

• Transform data into decision-ready briefings and communications for senior leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience, or a PhD with 3 years of relevant experience in strategy and planning, program management, product operations, or a related discipline.

• Proven experience managing cross-functional programs involving senior executives.

• Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous business challenges, build a fact base, assess options and trade-offs, and formulate practical recommendations.

• Proficiency in analyzing financial, operational, product, customer, or market data using tools like Excel and business intelligence platforms.

• Experience in preparing executive briefings, articulating complex business issues, and persuading senior stakeholders without direct authority.

• Preferred: experience managing cross-functional programs that involve customer-facing teams and multiple partner organizations in a dynamic, matrixed environment.

• Preferred: background in designing and executing executive customer engagement programs and meetings with senior leaders from both the company and its customers.

• Preferred: ability to integrate detailed operational execution with strategic and analytical problem-solving.

• Preferred: collaboration experience with Sales and account teams on executive customer engagements, account planning, or customer success initiatives.

• Preferred: background in management consulting, corporate strategy, strategy and operations, or a similar strategic role, ideally in enterprise technology or networking.

• Preferred: experience utilizing Tableau, Power BI, or SQL to detect trends and convey business insights.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with matching contributions from Cisco.

• Paid parental leave.

• Short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Basic life insurance.

• Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available.

• 10 paid holidays each full calendar year.

• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• 1 paid day off to celebrate the employee’s birthday.

• Paid year-end holiday shutdown.

• 4 paid days off for personal wellness.

• 16 days of paid vacation annually for non-exempt employees.

• Flexible vacation time off program without a defined limit for eligible exempt employees.

• 80 hours of sick time off granted upon hire and each January 1st thereafter.

• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time can be carried over.

• Additional paid time off for critical or emergency family matters.

• Optional 10 paid days annually for volunteering.

• Annual bonuses for non-sales positions, in accordance with Cisco’s policies.