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.