# Business Analyst

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco’s Global Supplier Management (GSM) organization is an industry-leading sourcing team in supply chain responsible for orchestrating direct material spend portfolio across strategic hardware commodities.

As a Business Analyst in GSM Cost Operations, you will be a key driver of commodity cost intelligence, quarterly quote cycle governance, and digital transformation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead Strategic Commodity Quoting & Cost Operations: Orchestrate end-to-end quarterly and annual RFQ quoting cycles across assigned strategic hardware commodities.

- Architect Advanced Analytics: Build dynamic simulative cost models and QoQ variance bridge models.

- Drive Cost Hole Governance & cost Variance Mitigation: Identify cost holes, diagnose, and resolve missing component costs prior to quarter-end standard cost freezes.

- GenAI & Digital Workflow Automation: Implement Generative AI tools, LLM prompt engineering, and automated agent workflows.

- Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Excellence: Partner closely with Supply channel Leads, Hardware Engineering, Supply Chain Product Managers, Finance, and Contract Manufacturers.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Analytics, Finance, Operations Research, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

- 6+ years of hands-on experience in hardware supply chain analytics, procurement cost engineering, direct material cost management, or financial operations within a high-tech or manufacturing environment.

- Advanced Excel Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel for complex financial modeling, multi-tab data reconciliations, nested functions, and Power Query data transformations.

- Financial Acumen: Strong financial acumen to evaluate the cost impact of non-material spend and correlate sourcing and manufacturing metrics.

- Business Intelligence & Data Modeling: Proven experience designing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise analytical dashboards and data pipelines in Power BI or Tableau.

- Generative AI & Automation: Demonstrated experience utilizing Generative AI tools, LLM prompt engineering, and basic scripting.

**Benefits:**

No benefits mentioned in the job posting.

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## Skills

### Required
- Advanced Excel
- Financial Acumen
- Business Intelligence
- Data Modeling
- Generative AI
- Automation
- Supply Chain Management
- Cost Operations

### Nice to have
- Hardware Domain & Costing Mechanics
- Enterprise Systems Acumen
- Executive Communication & Storytelling
- Leadership & Problem-Solving Agility

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