Product Supply Chain Planner

**What You'll Do**:
Together we'll strive for greatness through managing inbound material supply, identifying inventory driven cost savings, assessing risk, fulfilling our customer’s orders, and driving continuous improvement.

Establish an effective materials pipeline and drives product lead time achievement reflecting global demand, service expectations, customer priorities, costs and constraints.

Focus on inventory commits and optimization, lead time heatmap/hot spot analysis and publication, CLCA, supply buffers, S/D balancing, E&O projections/scrap disposition, freight mode shift/cost/tracking

Is the single point of aggregation for IDC, inventory mgmt. and scrap decisions across the United Computing Systems (UCS) space.

Orchestrate Inventory Sizing, Aging E&O mgmt. and scrap analysis/decision making.

Support the Inventory Commit process. Assists Product Supply Chain Planning team with updates in OPT on Inventory Turns, WOS, explains drivers/trends to drive action plan.

Primary point of contact for the BU, Regional S&OP, and Sales organizations regarding order escalations/allocation.

Collaborate with Regional teams to drive build plan and priorities according to the business and customer needs. With main focus on fulfillment metrics (OTS, LTA, LAS, LTI, Aging backlog, etc)

Drive with Regional OPS team to maximize build on a weekly basis and reduce RISO

**Who you'll work with**:
The Product Planning & Fulfillment (PPF) team is responsible for the optimization of Supply Chain outcomes for Cisco’s Business Units. You will join a cross-collaborative team of experienced and highly talented professionals, passionate about planning the inventory pipeline and order fulfillment of the product portfolio while actively balancing the trade-offs for revenue enablement, market share, profit margin, and customer satisfaction goals.

**Who you are**:
You are the authority on materials planning and fulfillment and understand how supply chain decisions can influence business performance. You’re an innovator and you love efficiency, particularly efficiency that minimizes inventory driven costs. You have supply chain experience, financial knowledge, people skills. You aren’t intimidated by titles and can work with people toward a shared goal. You're comfortable using your ability to influence, both inside and outside Cisco, to make sure we execute our strategy.

**Our minimum requirements for this role**:

- 7+years experience in Product Supply Chain Planning.
- BA/BS or equivalent
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedures
- Project management experience desired
- Proven experience leading with cross-functional impact
- Outstanding Collaborator & Team building skills
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills to effectively harmonize with internal and external partners

**Why Cisco**:
WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can’t put us in a box

But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us