Leader, Business Intelligence

The application window is expected to close on: 09/30/2026

Candidate must be located in East/Central Region

Meet the Team
Americas Sales Strategy, Planning, and Operations (SP&O) is a dynamic organization where innovation and technology come together to help our sales teams deliver on customer outcomes. We are seeking a best-in-class Americas Business Intelligence & Analytics (BIA) Leader who set vision, directions, develop roadmap, and behaviors for success for our BIA organization.

Supporting the Americas Sales Strategy Planning & Operations (SP&O) organization, this team drives data strategy, executes key operational initiatives, and maintains close partnerships with the Sales Leadership team, CETO, Revenue Intelligence and other cross functional collaborators.

Your Impact
Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategy and Planning, you will:

• Set the vision, direction, developmental roadmaps, and behaviors for success for our Business Intelligence & Analytics organization.
• Be a key advisor to leadership and coach to BIA team, modernizing our Business Intelligence approaches, owning strategic analytics, driving automation, and helping deliver field analytics across a variety of mediums (Americas PowerBI, Executive Console, SalesAI Assistant etc.)
• Lead our talented team of Business Analysts, AI Engineers, and Data Scientists in designing Americas’ analytical framework, ensuring the right data infrastructure to deliver insights.
• Build and empower an organization that is capable of data modeling, designing, and creating meaningful visualizations.
• Leverage a variety of AI capabilities to automate, inform and empower our world class salesforce.
• Tell our business story, both what we do and what we will do, across product business units and executive leadership teams.
• Strengthen and build relationships with organizations across Cisco that help support our initiatives (Finance, CETO, Revenue Intelligence, Business Operations, etc.)
• Proactively interact with cross-functional teams to better understand strengths and opportunities in the business, while aligning to action.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in a combination of Sales Business Intelligence & Analytics, and Operations. Strong business acumen.
• Minimum BA/BS Degree (MBA or equivalent experience is preferred)
• Experience using Business Intelligence visualization tools like PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik View, Einstein Analytics, and Looker for the creation and automation of Enterprise-Scale dashboards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with using and implementing Generative AI in one or more of these environments preferred.
• Experience building strong visualizations and have extensive development experience with Power Bi, Tableau and/or other Business Intelligence tools.
• Familiarity with writing advanced SQL, Python, Dax or other BI languages to develop data models and orchestrating data from multiple sources with them.
• Experienced with Americas territory design, sales structure, business entities / products, and overall hierarchy, with an understanding of how each role plays an integral part to our success.
• Experience capturing business requirements and business needs from stakeholders and turning them into actionable insights.
• Extensive familiarity with Cisco’s data (SAP Hana, Snowflake, Teradata), CRM (Sales Force, Gong), and forecasting (NGF) systems.
• Solid understanding of AI and automation tools (Circuit, Cursor, Claude, Git etc.) and how they can be leveraged to optimize our business motions and eliminate pain points.
• Proven people leader with experience leading large, cross functional teams.
• Familiarity with development within an Agile or similar project management framework preferred.
• Strong communications & influencing skills, experience working…