# Strategy & Planning Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco's Global Supply Chain Strategy & Planning team as a Strategy & Planning Manager. You will own a workstream within a larger strategic engagement, working closely with the Engagement Lead to structure problems, lead analysis, engage stakeholders, and develop clear recommendations for leadership.

Your responsibilities include:

- Building quantitative analysis, including financial models, scenarios, business cases, and analytical frameworks

- Managing stakeholder relationships across Business Units, Planning, Sourcing, Logistics, Channel, and Finance

- Conducting external benchmarking and competitive analysis

- Developing and defending a clear point of view

- Presenting workstream findings to senior leaders

- Guiding analysts supporting your workstream

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or supply chain operations

- Proven experience owning workstreams from problem definition through completion

- Ability to structure open-ended business problems into actionable analytical frameworks

- Strong quantitative modeling skills

- Experience independently managing relationships with senior stakeholders

- Strong communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience in operations or supply chain consulting

- Experience mentoring, coaching, or reviewing the work of junior analysts

- Familiarity with analytical tools such as Python, SQL, Power BI, or Tableau

- Experience working across global teams, geographies, and time zones

## Skills

### Required
- quantitative analysis
- stakeholder management
- strategic planning
- supply chain operations
- management consulting

### Nice to have
- Python
- SQL
- Power BI
- Tableau
- operations consulting
- supply chain consulting

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