# Partner Inventory Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Supply Chain organization at Cisco as a Partner Inventory Manager. You will handle end-to-end inventory and supply processes with assigned contract manufacturers or Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs).

Your Impact: As a Partner Inventory Manager, you will serve as a primary contact for manufacturing partners, ensuring alignment with Cisco’s supply chain requirements, performance metrics, and process improvements.

Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end inventory and supply management processes with assigned contract manufacturers or ODM partners.

- Develop, implement, and maintain inventory and supply processes to ensure operational efficiency.

- Prepare and deliver reports on process progress and outcomes to internal collaborators and manufacturing partners.

- Analyze interdependencies between business processes and supply chain metrics.

- Lead transformational project work to improve business processes and supply chain systems.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field, plus 7 or more years of professional experience in manufacturing or supply chain.

- Detailed professional experience handling end-to-end inventory and supply processes with contract manufacturers or ODM partners.

- Professional experience applying manufacturing processes, procedures, and lean principles within an industrial environment.

- Demonstrated experience in negotiating and communicating requirements with internal teams and external supplier organizations.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook).

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration (MBA) or a related quantitative field.

- Experience in leading cross-functional project teams to deliver process or system improvements.

- Demonstrated ability to function optimally within a virtual, global team environment.

- Experience in reporting performance metrics to executive leadership or external partners.

- Experience running complex supply chain data sets to drive business outcomes.

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain Management
- Inventory Management
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Lean Principles

### Nice to have
- Business Administration
- Project Management
- Data Analysis
- Virtual Team Management

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