# Sourcing Commodity Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $143,100.00 to $185,900.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Technical Sourcing Commodity Manager for Memory and Storage at Cisco, you will own technical decisions and cost outcomes for memory and storage commodities by partnering closely with hardware engineering, manufacturing, and supplier engineering teams.

You will influence design decisions, enable supplier technical readiness, and remove development barriers from concept through mass production.

Your work directly impacts Cisco's ability to deliver innovative, high-performance networking and AI systems at scale,ensuring designs are manufacturable, resilient, and production-ready while meeting aggressive performance and reliability requirements.

**Responsibilities**

- Partner with Hardware Design Engineering, Component Engineering, and Manufacturing to align supplier technologies with Cisco's product architecture and roadmap.

- Participate in technical design reviews with internal teams and suppliers, evaluating feasibility, manufacturability, and performance tradeoffs.

- Drive early supplier technical engagement for new designs and architectures.

- Lead supplier technology roadmap discussions, assessing design approaches, materials, processes, and manufacturing capabilities.

- Technical escalation point for supplier-related design, yield, reliability, and manufacturability issues.

- Hold suppliers accountable to development milestones, technical readiness, and qualification schedules.

- Lead/Own supplier technical readiness from prototype through mass production.

- Facilitate hands-on collaboration between supplier engineering teams and Cisco engineers to resolve design and manufacturing issues.

- Support ramp readiness, yield improvement, and transition from NPI into sustained production.

- Drive value engineering initiatives that improve cost efficiency without compromising technical performance or reliability.

- Identify and develop second-source strategies that strengthen design robustness and supply flexibility.

- Support geographic diversification and non-China manufacturing strategies.

- Identify technical and manufacturing risks; develop mitigation plans in partnership with engineering and suppliers.

- Lead supplier reviews covering technology readiness, NPI execution, yield, capacity, and risk.

- Provide clear technical status updates to cross-functional leadership.

- Partner with Component Engineering on quality investigations and corrective actions.

- Drive continuous improvement using diverse methodologies.

- Define technical KPIs and enable data-driven execution across suppliers.

**Minimum Required Qualifications**

- 7+ years technical experience in memory & storage technologies (especially for NAND solutions - SSD, eMMC, UFS, uSD, etc), including design support and manufacturing engagement.

- 10+ years experience working directly with hardware design engineering teams on New Product Introductions (NPI).

- 10+ years experience engaging suppliers on technical development, qualification, and manufacturing readiness, cost negotiations, should-cost modeling, contract management, and obtaining quotations (RFQ/RFI process) from suppliers.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master's degree in mechanical engineering or related field.

- Experience with memory & storage technology or in memory suppliers.

- Familiarity with AI system architectures and high-performance computing platforms.

- Excellent technical communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental and vision insurance.

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

- Paid parental leave.

- Short and long-term disability coverage.

- Basic life insurance.

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time).

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

## Skills

### Required
- memory & storage technologies
- NAND solutions
- hardware design engineering
- supplier engagement
- technical development
- cost negotiations

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in mechanical engineering
- AI system architectures
- high-performance computing platforms

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