Strategy & Planning Manager, Global Cloud & AI Sales

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  • Location:
    Offsite, RTP, North Carolina, US
  • Alternate Location
    Anywhere U.S.
  • Area of Interest
    Sales - Services, Solutions, Customer Success
  • Compensation Range
    111000 USD - 168000 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Cloud & AI (DCN & Compute)
  • Job Id
    1439620

The application window is expected to close on: May 9, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Candidates in the United States are eligible to apply, no relocation is provided.

Meet the Team

The Worldwide Cloud & AI Infrastructure Sales Strategy & Planning team focuses on driving growth, improving seller efficiency, and ensuring the business operates efficiently. We are part of the centralized Global Specialist Strategy and Planning (GSSP) organization that is tasked to drive strategy, planning, and operations in support of Cisco’s Specialist Sales Teams. This opportunity will be focused on the Compute & Data Center Networking architectures, which includes Servers, Nexus, and MDS product lines.

Your Impact

You will be a business partner to the Global CAI Platform sales leaders and Region specialist teams. This highly visible role will actively contribute to shaping strategic deals within the CAI portfolio. You will engage with Sales leaders, the Specialist S&P organization, CAI Sales Specialists, Business Units, Finance, and other cross-functional organizations.

Role & Responsibilities include:

  • Competitive Deal Support: Lead deal structuring for competitive deals ensuring Cisco is optimally positioned.
  • Drive key GTM initiatives and programs: Accelerate select initiatives and sales-play programs.
  • Strategic Planning: Assess business trends using bookings, pipeline, and product-specific data to drive appropriate business accountability, operational efficiency gains, and GTM strategy understanding. Software licensing and offer structure knowledge a plus.
  • Cross-functional engagement & alignment: Drive cross organizational collaboration, alignment, and execution with Sales, Finance, and the BU.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of strategy, operations, or related experience.
  • Commercial Finance / deal structuring experience.
  • Ability to interpret business trends and make recommendations to Senior Leadership.
  • Business Insight – Proven understanding of Cisco’s sales cycle, organization, and GTM objectives: sales, channels, and services.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Strong analytical skills and proficiency with business intelligence tools.
  • Ability to influence and govern strategically.
  • Skilled at interfacing cross-functionally at multiple levels of leadership.
  • Results and metric oriented.
  • Minimum BA/BS; MBA a plus.
  • Basic understanding of the following tools: Excel (Pivot-Tables, etc.), FINBI, PowerPoint (presentation building), MDM, CCW, SFDC, Cisco Ready, & MBR.

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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.

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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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