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It’s an exciting time to work at Cisco! Every day we connect people to the network and make it come to life. Whether it’s using e-learning to educate students far from city centers or downloading the entire Library of Congress in seconds, our networking technology has not only revolutionized the way people do things, but who they are. People are more informed, more efficient, and more involved. With all forms of communications converging onto the network, Cisco is entering an exciting new era. The concept of the network as the platform for transforming life’s experiences is no longer a possibility: It is quickly becoming a reality. And Cisco is leading the experience!
Job Description:
- Represent Cisco manufacturing to external suppliers and drives their senior management commodity strategy and support.
- Manage supplier performance and development – ranking and scoring, continuous improvement, and adherence to Cisco requirements – which will lead to a significant impact on revenue.
- Manage supplier performance to meet or exceed Cisco Systems Quality, Cost and Delivery requirements.
- Global Commodity Strategy - integrate business, technical and financial requirements.
- Assess supplier risk/component risk rating and identify mitigation plans and recommend alternatives.
- Sustain cost ownership (negotiations, splits, cost reductions).
- Industry trends and market intelligence.
- Global Contracts ownership.
- Manages appropriate escalations as necessary.
- Primary interface to external suppliers.
- Accountable for the overall business partnership.
Required skills and ability:
- Excellent communication skills (presentation, written, verbal) of both technical and non-technical issues.
- Strong knowledge of supplier management, commodity industry knowledge.
- Typically manages projects of $100-400M in projected revenue. Projects may cross multiple BUs.
- Extensive business strategy knowledge and implementation knowledge; capable of influencing internal decision makers to make decisions aligned with strategies and objectives benefiting the entire organization
- Strong team building skills to build bridges between different functional areas
- Significant and diverse management experience preferred
- Help internal teams understand needs of other groups and uses business and technical expertise to develop collaborative solutions
- Demonstrate record of decision making on complex programs, conflict resolution, maintaining deadlines and leadership across organizations
- Experiences in fabless model dealing with companies like TSMC, UMC, AMKOR & ASE
Education:
- BS or BA degree in engineering, operations research, finance or other technical fields plus 10+ years manufacturing experience.
- MS degree preferred.
