Strategy & Planning Manager

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The Strategic Enterprise PMO in Cisco’s Office of the CEO sits at the center of Cisco’s most critical enterprise priorities. We work directly with C-level executives and senior leaders to turn strategy into action, accelerate durable growth, and manage enterprise-level risk.

This Strategy & Planning Manager is not a traditional PMO role. Our team is brought into high-stakes, cross-company initiatives where speed, structure, judgment, and accountability matter. We clarify complex problems, align senior stakeholders, build operating models, drive decisions, and keep execution moving across Cisco.

You will be part of a high-caliber team with direct exposure to executive decision-making and the opportunity to shape how Cisco delivers its most important work. You are a practical operator who creates clarity quickly, communicates with sound judgment, and with the ability to drive progress across matrixed teams.

Typical Duties Include:

• Help drive strategic initiatives tied to Cisco's enterprise priorities, including AI-era cyber defense, global business acceleration, and competitive go-to-market execution.
• Translate executive direction into clear workstreams, owners, milestones, risks, dependencies and next steps
• Create structure in ambiguous work by helping define decision rights, escalation paths, operating cadences, executive updates, and sustainable operating models.
• Coordinate across product, sales, strategy, finance, legal, marketing, communications, operations, government affairs, and other functions
• Prepare executive-ready updates that summarize progress, risks, blockers, decisions needed and recommendations.
• Support portfolio discipline across intake, execution, operating model readiness, and business handoff.
• Build scalable, AI-enabled ways of working across templates, dashboards, reporting, workflows, and executive summaries.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, program management, consulting, or a related field
• Support of enterprise-level initiatives and business leadership teams
• Strong PowerPoint, Excel, project/program management, and communication skills
• Experience preparing leadership updates, dashboards, or decision materials
• Ability to work across U.S. and international time zones, as needed
• Ability to manage confidential and high-sensitivity information

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree
• Experience in a technology company, management consulting firm, enterprise PMO, strategy, or business operations role managing programs in matrixed organizations
• Strong analytical, synthesis, and storytelling skills
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Asana, Airtable, Cursor, Codex, LLM chat models, AI agents, dashboards, workflow automation, or similar productivity platforms
• Ability to use AI tools to summarize inputs, draft executive updates, identify risks, automate workflows, and improve portfolio visibility
• Familiarity with go-to-market, product, security, AI, infrastructure, or competitive strategy initiatives

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  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.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.