Demand and Supply Planning Manager (Hybrid)

Cisco • San Jose, CA

17h • Hybrid

About The Position

Cisco Silicon One ™ is a revolutionary, ground-breaking technology for our customers and end-users for decades to come! The Internet now has a new faster, better, safer engine!

This role works with Product Supply Planning & Fulfillment, Material & Capacity Planning, Global Inventory Management & Manufacturing Logistics Operations along with extended partners (e.g. Global Supplier Management, Product Operations, Cisco Global Planning). You'll partner with Supply Chain eco-system partners to optimize the Si supply chain and operations to meet key business metrics.
Your Impact
We’re in a dynamic phase within Supply Chain Operations and are seeking encouraging talent to join the team. We have a position available for a creative, encouraged individual contributor, to work with our Supply Chain functional partners to run critical processes and initiatives for the Silicon One Supply chain group. You'll join our Group driving our groundbreaking next-generation network devices - Cisco Silicon One ™.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in the relevant field.
• End-to-end planning exposure for the related silicon products.
• Knowledge of demand & supply planning, logistics processes, and planning systems in semiconductor industry.
• Proven experience influencing partner executives and are capable of influencing internal decision-makers to make decisions aligned with strategies and objectives benefiting the entire organization.
• Advanced Excel skillset with proven capability to analyze large complex data sets from multiple sources.

Nice To Haves

• You have excellent presentation and interpersonal skills including written, verbal, and listening skills.
• Experience in demand and supply planning for new product introduction (NPI)
• Experience with MRP tools such as Oracle Cloud, SAP, Kinaxis

Responsibilities

• Prepare and facilitate monthly multi-functional demand review meetings
• Develop demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast accuracy data and evaluate forecast results.
• Coordinate multi-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances to improve forecast accuracy.
• Apply a consensus approach that includes working with sales, marketing, and Global Planning teams to acquire and ensure current and accurate information is used for forecasting.
• Evaluate forecast accuracy and determine action plans to improve accuracy.
• Prepare reports and recommend adjustments to sales or potentially supply plans.
• Perform coordinated "what-if" analysis using both supply and demand plans.
• Formulate buffer strategies using demand context and product lifecycle status of products
• Partner with the production planning, capacity planning, and manufacturing teams to prepare supply commits back to customers
• Become the point of contact for all demand and supply related discussions for your product families

Benefits

• U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations) 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed