Description
The Supply Chain Transformation Central Business Architect (CBA) serves as the primary strategic orchestrator bridging enterprise business vision, global physical manufacturing/fulfillment networks, and next-generation cognitive digital core systems.
Target State Strategy & Architecture Blueprinting
- Define, maintain, and publish the master Cisco Supply Chain Business Capability Model
- Collaborate with functional architecture teams and AI Governance teams to define the 3–5-year cognitive supply chain roadmap
- Construct quantified ROI models, total cost of ownership, benchmarks, and executive business cases to secure executive sponsorship for multi-million-dollar transformations
Cross-Functional Orchestration & Ecosystem Alignment
- Serve as the connective tissue aligning leaders across Global Supply Chain, Enterprise IT, BU Product Management, Operations Finance, and Global Sales
- Design and facilitate intensive cross-functional BIS workshops to deconstruct complex operational challenges into rapid minimum viable capabilities
- Interface with strategic partners to establish unified operating procedures, benchmarking and innovation roadmap
Architecture Governance & Discipline
- Lead Supply Chain rapid assessments and other such activities to evaluate value case, investments needed, ensuring compliance with target-state modular capability designs and avoiding duplicative tool proliferation
- Oversee the transition of new business models, AI/ML pilots into scalable enterprise-grade production
- Embed governance and operating model for AI ethics guardrails directly into automated operational workflows
Value Realization
- Establish and monitor quantitative value-realization scorecards, verifying that completed transformations deliver promised cost takeout, lead-time compression, and margin expansion
- Curate and optimize real-time operational orchestration, surfacing process bottlenecks and friction points to operations leadership
- Building a vision for elevating autonomous supply chain exception resolution by reducing human touchpoints in routine supply chain roles
Practice Leadership & Talent Enablement
- Curate Cisco's centralized business architecture repository, ensuring reusable capability maps, process flows, and architectural assets are accessible enterprise wide
- Coach and mentor domain business architects, process engineers, and technical leads across the broader Operations organization
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum bachelor's degree in business or any other related field with at least 10 years of applicable experience, with a focus on 2 or more supply chain domains
- Ability to summarize detailed requirements into a digestible, fluid message that can be tailored for multiple levels of the organization
- Domain expertise in global high-tech electronics with hands-on experience architecting complex enterprise cores
- 7+ Years working on Enterprise Architecture / Transformation
- Familiarity in delivery of AI & Cognitive Supply Chain operational solutions
- Good understanding of business procedures and operations is necessary
- Program management expertise, working knowledge of Supply Chain systems, and a proven ability to drive the efforts with large multi-functional teams