# Manufacturing Operations Supply Project Manager

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

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## Description

Join our team as a Manufacturing Operations Supply Project Manager, responsible for overseeing end-to-end PCBA supply operations with Contract Manufacturers.

This position is accountable for managing all supply operations deliverables to ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Key responsibilities include:

- Material pipeline management: Ensure CM pipelines material per Cisco demand at component lead time.

- Clear-to-build oversight: Manage CTB process with CM, maintaining visibility on material readiness and critical components gating CTB.

- Quarterly build plan: Accountable for achieving quarterly build targets across assigned product families.

- Execution excellence: Drive flawless execution and timely due diligence by CM in material management.

- Escalation and allocation: Escalate gating components with CSP/GSM after CM due diligence; collaborate with PPF and CSP for allocation in cases of global shortages.

- SCR Commit: Drive CM commit to Cisco demand, ensuring maximized CTB in their commits.

- CM Performance management: Drive CM performance against key metrics (SCR Coverage, SCR Accuracy, Build Target Coverage, OTC, Delivery to CT2R, Inventory Commit).

- Capacity management: Collaborate with CM and cross-functional teams to right-size capacity and maintain utilization below thresholds, ensuring flexibility for demand upside per contractual terms.

- Inventory optimization: Collaborate with CM, Inventory Team, PPF, GHub, and CSP/GSM teams to optimize inventory and support Cisco initiatives.

- Excess material management: Address excess material caused by demand reductions, engineering change, product EOL, or other factors by working with CM, PPF, Inventory Team, Service Depot Team to site balance, buybacks, re-ID/re-program, scrap, etc.

- Engineering change management: Drive ECO management with CM, ensure proper LECO implementation scheduling, ensure supply continuity and smooth transitions between old and new parts without line down/excess surprises.

- Product transfer support: Drive material for product qualification, manage qualification builds, manage mass production ramp, manage PO swap and excess material transfers.

- Lead time and build priorities: Partner with PPF team to support product lead time goals, build targets, and build priorities.

- Cost management: Manage E&O disposition, BAAO setup, NMS, PPV, OT cost.

- NPI transition: Ensure smooth transition from NPI to sustaining.

- Central initiatives: Collaborate with central material organization to deploy or adopt new tools/processes.

- CM audit: Participate in annual business operations audit at the CM; covering BOM, Planning, Procurement, Inventory Management and Warehousing.

Minimum qualifications:

- Minimum 8–10 years of experience in Materials Management

- Working knowledge with planning/ERP systems, including Kinaxis, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent platforms

- Strong Contract Manufacturer (CM) management skills, with proven ability to drive performance and collaboration

- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, with strong attention to detail

- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders across global regions

Preferred qualifications:

- Self-driven and independent

- Material Planning knowledge

- Production Planning knowledge

- High standards of data integrity

- Strong follow-up skills

## Skills

### Required
- Materials Management
- Contract Manufacturer management
- planning/ERP systems
- problem solving
- analytical skills
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- Material Planning
- Production Planning
- data integrity
- follow-up skills

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