Brand Protection Manager

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  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Alternate Location
    BEIJING
  • Area of Interest
    Legal
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    *None
  • Job Id
    1434508

Meet the Team

You will be part of our Legal team, a fun-loving, diverse team, with a broad range of cultures and backgrounds. You will work with teams across Legal, including Sales Legal, Global Compliance and Global Brand Protection, and others. You will engage with both leaders and individual contributors while collaborating across multi-functions at Cisco.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement Cisco Brand Protection strategy for Asia Pacific Region based on actionable intelligence and in line with global priorities.
  • Manage investigations focused on counterfeiting, illegal imports, grey market, discount frauds and other brand protection related matters.
  • Manage compliance reviews with channel partners, including leading sales transaction audits, demonstrating excellent skills in data analysis, strategy and planning, as well as in interaction with channel partners, end users and Cisco executives.
  • Partner closely with cross-functional teams (e.g. Finance, Sales, Legal, Operations, IT)
  • Represent Brand Protection cases before Cisco senior leadership.
  • Manage disputes including supporting commercial litigations.
  • Develop and deliver Brand Protection trainings for Cisco internal and external audience, including channel partners, distributors, and end users.
  • Represent Cisco Brand Protection on relevant trade association meetings, conferences, and other events as well cooperate with relevant customs authorities on as needed basis.

Who you are

  • You are an assertive, proactive, responsive, and result-oriented person with strong interpersonal and communication skills who enjoys an individual contributor role as much as a cross-functional collaboration.
  • You have excellent data analysis and data visualization skills, and you can efficiently analyze large amount of data, understand key points, and present it before executive audience.
  • You enjoy new technologies and are particularly interested in software and software licensing.
  • You can effectively prioritize competing demands in a dynamic environment and manage a high-volume case load.
  • You enjoy presenting and speaking in public.
  • You have experience with Salesforce, Tableu, Apirasol, i2, and/or similar platforms and data bases.
  • You have a basic understanding of competition and trademark / IP laws, customs procedures related to seizures, as well as a good understanding of anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws including the FCPA.

Minimum Qualifications

  • BA/BS, LLB degree or equivalent required; J.D., LLM, MBA, or Master’s Degree preferred. CFE or other professional certification will be a plus.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting internal investigations involving fraud and financial forensics, with some combination of background in audit, compliance, law enforcement, legal, finance or accounting.
  • Demonstrated experience managing projects from inception through completion and comfortable using project management tools and methodologies.
  • Knowledge of brand protection industry and online anti-counterfeiting strategies.
  • Experience in working with teams across geographies and different time-zones.
  • Experience in IT sector, preferably in multi-national technology company and/or similar positions.
  • Foreign languages particularly Chinese and Vietnamese will be a plus.

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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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