Supplier Commodity Manager - Optic Transceivers; Hybrid

Supplier Commodity Manager for High Speed Optic Transceivers

Cisco Global Supplier Management (GSM) team is seeking a motivated Supplier Commodity Manager for "High Speed Optic Transceivers". You will be part of a highly impactful and dynamic organization collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers.

Your role will involve:

• Responsible and accountable for the Commodity Strategy and the Supply-base executing and enabling it
• Responsible and accountable for all aspects of supplier relationship management including all technical, commercial, delivery, and quality while working across partner supply chain organizations like Technology & Quality, Manufacturing, and Product Operations
• Working closely with Global planning and fulfillment teams to track inventory, CT2R, and ensure continuity of supply. This includes lead time management, Strategic Inventory Planning, Sophisticated purchase proposals and such
• Driving quarterly negotiations of component cost and lead-times
• Performance Management:
  Executive Escalations / Resolutions, Scorecards / Business Reviews on Cost, Quality, Delivery, Technology, and Partnership
• Proactively using data to assess issues, risk assessment, work and collaborate cross-functional to provide proposals to mitigate the risk and see and follow through with the plan to implement.
• Identifying, tracking, and collaborating across functions on appropriate Market Indicators for the assigned Industry, anticipating market trends and transitions
• Negotiating, and driving all aspects/terms of legal settlement/agreements such as MPAs, MOU, Capacity agreement, VMI agreements and such
• Influence the suppliers in investments that meet Cisco's future requirements

Minimum qualifications include:

• 7+ years of cross functional Supply Chain experience in Commodity Management.
• Excellent skills in supplier management along with extensive experience in drafting and negotiating sophisticated commercial contracts.
• Excellent skills in data analytics and reporting and ability to develop and execute short-, mid-, and long-term strategies.
• Adept at influencing decisions and developing solutions to sophisticated business situations.
• Strong experience with collaboration, communications, negotiations, facilitation and change management.