Meet the Team:
Join the dynamic Cisco Latin America (LATAM) Communications team, part of the broader Americas communications function. We are at the forefront of the digital disruption narrative, actively crafting conversations and thought leadership around the transformative power of Cisco technology. Become an integral part of a high-impact team dedicated to amplifying Cisco as the critical infrastructure for the AI era!
For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, improve efficiency and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to crafting a more connected and inclusive future for all.
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Your Impact:
As the Communications Manager for Brazil, you will be instrumental in leading and driving local strategic communication initiatives within a fast-paced, varied and matrixed environment. A key focus will be to translate business strategies and innovative technologies into compelling and engaging narratives that resonate with audiences across Brazil. This is a fantastic opportunity to collaborate closely with the Communications Lead for LATAM, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, helping to build our external reputation and driving world-class communication outcomes with impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Communication Development & Execution: Build and implement local internal and external communications strategies that are aligned with Brazil’s business objectives, while performing global communications priorities.
- Narrative Crafting & Storytelling: Translate sophisticated technical concepts into compelling, accessible, and impactful narratives for a variety of stakeholders, and with audiences including media, customers, partners, and employees.
- Local Content & Campaign Creation: Develop a wide range of content and local small-to-mid scale communications campaigns, including thought leadership, key messaging, presentations, blogs, social media content, and media pitches.
- Performance Measurement & Reporting: Handle measurement frameworks to track the efficiency of campaigns and report on their business impact to regional stakeholders.
- Reputation Management: Proactively identify and mitigate potential reputational risks through the development and execution of crisis communication strategies.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Full professional proficiency in Portuguese, English and Spanish (written and verbal) is required.
- A Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or a closely related field.
- A minimum of 7 years of progressive professional experience in corporate communications, public relations agencies, or media-related businesses.
- Outstanding editorial acumen and writing skills, with a validated ability to distil sophisticated ideas into clear, concise, and actionable copy.
- Proven experience using a variety of digital communication platforms (ie. Sharepoint, Adobe Express) and tools to achieve communication objectives.
- Demonstrated proficiency in using AI tools to reinvent processes, optimize workflows, and drive improved communication outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience influencing and collaborating effectively with senior stakeholders across a large, matrixed organization.
- Existing network of media relationships within the Brazil market.
- Demonstrated experience in handling external agency partners and departmental budgets.
- A growth mindset coupled with a demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and champion innovative communication approaches.
- Experience working in a cross-functional team environment, and an outcome focused teammate.
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.
