Program Manager - Global Supplier Management

The Global Supplier Management (GSM) organization is at the heart of Cisco's #1 supply chain. We are an elite team who take on the hardest challenges (like the global supply shortage crisis) and work together in a fast-paced environment backed up by a strong team to solve those challenges.

• Work with product owners, architects, IT, central team, commodity managers and suppliers to drive strategic projects for supply chain
• Work with process/business teams to understand requirements and convey messaging to product owners
• Engage with other functions within supply chain for cross functional initiatives
• Monthly/quarterly business reporting to Sr. Leadership

• Program manage multiple projects - collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage timelines, planning, prioritization and influencing to ensure successful delivery while advocating for the team and products
• Define project scope, landmarks, success criteria and reporting
• Host, plan and moderate team meetings with internal partners
• Gather and prioritize internal customer requirements to build, maintain and implement roadmaps
• Continuously identify and implement process improvements to enhance productivity and efficiency for internal customers and suppliers
• Influence change in multi-customer, and multi-functional set-up to drive process and tooling consistency in-order to provide services at scale
• Communicate status, risks, issues, and mitigation in a consistent, timely and systematic fashion to leadership to enable informed decision making.
• Engage with suppliers on tool access, operational support and document process improvement suggestions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in supply chain management or business management or applicable field
• 4+ years' experience in a program management role

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent written & verbal communication skills, and industry knowledge to efficiently lead a team
• Familiarity with agile methodologies, technical understanding and experience developing relationships with IT teams
• Feel comfortable working with vague or incomplete data by using & documenting assumptions and thought process
• Analytical skills, experience with spreadsheet modeling and familiarity with Tableau capabilities
• Understanding of new product introductions, sustaining support and sourcing of components desired.

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