Supplier Commodity Manager

Meet The Team

Did you know? Cisco Supply Chain was just ranked #1 for Tech Companies and #1 overall on Gartner, Inc s annual Supply Chain Top 25 which identifies supply chain leaders and highlights their standard processes. There’s never been a better time to join us!

The Global Supplier Management (GSM) Organization is an industry leader in sourcing and supplier management that enable sustained innovation and supply chain excellence. You will join a very motivated team that achieves record setting results and a fun group that helps each other be successful at work and play. Our team focuses is to drive innovation as well as outstanding cost, quality and delivery; in order to accomplish this, you will work very closely with constituents across Supply Base, Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing, Marketing and Legal.

Your Impact

You possess a combination of business experience, and strong interpersonal communication and relationship management skills, aren’t intimidated by titles and can work with people toward a shared goal.

You'll use your ability to influence, both inside and outside Cisco, to make sure we implement our strategy. Your top negotiation skills are used daily so that Cisco is ambitious in the marketplace and our customers love our products.

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

• 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
• Managing 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

• 10+ years of cross functional Supply Chain experience
• Ability to develop and execute short, mid, and long term strategies
• Expertise in building positive relationships internally and externally, and conflict resolution
• Adept at influencing decisions and developing solutions to complex business situations
• Strong experience with collaboration, communications, negotiations, facilitation and change management
• Ability to work across boundaries, earning trust, taking risk and being inclusive is highly valued
• Excellent skills in supplier management, and contracts review and management

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.