# Product Lifecycle Supply Chain Project Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cisco Supply Chain Product Operations team is looking for a motivated and skilled Supply Chain Program Manager (SCPM) to drive the supply chain readiness, total cost management, and BOM resiliency on all HW programs from pre-concept to FCS.

Responsibilities include:

- Accountable for the assigned product portfolio’s total cost & margin management, cost reduction programs and risk mitigation for new products.

- Validate the integrity of the costed BOM and forward costing.

- Ability to clearly articulate the main cost drivers, cost reduction, and cost avoidance activities and support Standard & Gross Margin management of HW & SW products through value engineering, Commodity Analysis and BOM optimization.

- Prepare the supply chain and lead a ramp plan to ensure continuity of material supply and delivery between proto and early production for assigned HW products.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in technology-related field, supply chain management, or engineering.

- 2-5 years of experience in supply chain within the tech industry.

- Experience in program management and stakeholder management.

- Supply chain knowledge, particularly in Hi-Tech environments, and ability to complete product costing and margin analysis.

- Understanding of product, Bill of Materials, and costing.

- Experience leading continuity of material supply, delivery, and quality ensuring no shortages, delays, or quality issues from prototype to FCS.

- Knowledge of PLM processes - exposure to Agile PDM system is an advantage.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while managing multiple competing priorities.

- Experience in strategic planning and aligning product lifecycle management objectives with broader business goals.

- Basic negotiation skills.

- Strong attention to details and analytical skills.

- Experience with cost avoidance, cost reduction, and value engineering.

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- program management
- stakeholder management
- product costing
- margin analysis
- Bill of Materials
- costing
- PLM processes

### Nice to have
- strategic planning
- negotiation skills
- analytical skills
- cost avoidance
- cost reduction
- value engineering

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