Description
Cisco’s Global Supplier Management (GSM) organization is an industry-leading sourcing team in supply chain responsible for orchestrating direct material spend portfolio across strategic hardware commodities.
As a Business Analyst in GSM Cost Operations, you will be a key driver of commodity cost intelligence, quarterly quote cycle governance, and digital transformation.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Strategic Commodity Quoting & Cost Operations: Orchestrate end-to-end quarterly and annual RFQ quoting cycles across assigned strategic hardware commodities.
- Architect Advanced Analytics: Build dynamic simulative cost models and QoQ variance bridge models.
- Drive Cost Hole Governance & cost Variance Mitigation: Identify cost holes, diagnose, and resolve missing component costs prior to quarter-end standard cost freezes.
- GenAI & Digital Workflow Automation: Implement Generative AI tools, LLM prompt engineering, and automated agent workflows.
- Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Excellence: Partner closely with Supply channel Leads, Hardware Engineering, Supply Chain Product Managers, Finance, and Contract Manufacturers.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Analytics, Finance, Operations Research, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in hardware supply chain analytics, procurement cost engineering, direct material cost management, or financial operations within a high-tech or manufacturing environment.
- Advanced Excel Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel for complex financial modeling, multi-tab data reconciliations, nested functions, and Power Query data transformations.
- Financial Acumen: Strong financial acumen to evaluate the cost impact of non-material spend and correlate sourcing and manufacturing metrics.
- Business Intelligence & Data Modeling: Proven experience designing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise analytical dashboards and data pipelines in Power BI or Tableau.
- Generative AI & Automation: Demonstrated experience utilizing Generative AI tools, LLM prompt engineering, and basic scripting.
Benefits:
No benefits mentioned in the job posting.
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