Business Operations Manager

The application window is expected to close on: 10/29/2026

Meet the Team The Corporate Planning team is a part of the Office of the CEO organization, responsible for driving organizational alignment through QBO, Annual Planning, ELT Scorecard, and action tracking. We operate at the intersection of executive leadership and cross-functional operations, ensuring precision and strategic clarity. Your work will directly impact how the ELT stays aligned and focused on executing Cisco’s core strategy.

Your Impact As the Business Operations Manager, you'll be the operational backbone of the Corporate Planning function, ensuring critical planning processes run smoothly, efficiently, and with precision. Partnering with the direct and extended teams, this role will help synthesize complex information from QBO, Annual Planning, ELT Scorecard, and action tracking processes to translate strategy into clear direction for working teams, surfacing insights that keep the organization aligned to priorities.

Manage agenda creation, attendee curation, and cross-organizational communication with ELT core strategy and planning teams to ensure planning deliverables and timelines stay on track.

Partner closely with the Director of Strategy & Planning and EA to anticipate needs, remove operational barriers, and support ad-hoc strategic priorities so leadership can focus on outcomes.

Success means planning cycles run on time with quality, teams understand priorities and deliverables, and the Corporate Planning function operates with efficiency and impact.

Minimum Qualifications Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
4 + years of professional experience in business operations, corporate planning, executive support, or similar functions.
2 + years of experience in a role requiring cross-functional coordination at the executive or senior management level.

At least 2 years of experience leading projects or operational processes across one or more teams or business functions from planning through completion.

Demonstrated experience delivering work across multiple concurrent priorities when requirements, timelines, or available information change.

Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting executive leadership, C-suite, or ELT environments

Familiarity with strategic planning, business planning, or corporate governance processes

Experience with project management or process optimization methodologies

Strong executive presence and ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority

Experience with business intelligence tools or data synthesis platforms

Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

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