Acquisition Integration Manager

Cisco • San Jose, CA

3d

About The Position

Cisco’s acquisition integration ecosystem is an experienced, close-knit, cross-functional team that thrives on the dynamic (and oftentimes ambiguous) nature of integration with the shared goal of helping acquired businesses succeed at Cisco and achieve the agreed-upon business outcomes. Global Procurement Services (GPS) is responsible for the enterprise-wide-procurement of all Cisco indirect goods and services. GPS is a key partner to all regional, global and strategic Cisco Businesses, functions service delivery teams leading all sourcing, contracting, supplier management, and buying activities. The successful candidate will partner with key internal stakeholders and acquired company leads to ensure a successful integration across the procure-to-pay lifecycle to help drive business value and support profitable growth worldwide. Your Impact You will directly manage the successful integration of all operational expense procure-to-pay activities for Cisco’s acquired companies. These activities include planning, execution, integration of procure-to-pay activities for acquisitions and Cisco divestitures. You will be responsible for collaboratively developing value-based procurement outcomes for newly acquired companies that accelerate the integration while being compliant with Cisco procurement policies. The purpose of the role is to ensure the value-based business continuity of the newly acquired companies during the initial integration period to Cisco's purchasing tools and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, or related field
• 8+ year of experience in one or more of the following fields: procurement, supply chain, legal, or customer success
• Experience in Acquisition Integration or Divestitures a plus
• Strong communication skills, work ethic and proactive attitude
• AI Literacy with understanding of its application in operations, decision-making and strategy
• Understanding of AI experience layer including BOTS, RPA, Agentic AI to improve operational efficiency
• Strong analytical skills and proven ability to deal with large volumes of complex data and build models to provide insights & drive business decisions

Responsibilities

• Project manage the procurement integration of spend and suppliers utilized by acquired companies to Cisco's processes and tools
• Understand business objectives so as to generate and monitor project information, action items, schedule, and deliverables for the team.
• Assist newly acquired employees in procurement-related activities as needed.
• Work with cross-functional internal groups and the acquisition to ensure timely vetting, enrollment, and other requirements are completed for acquisition-based suppliers
• Become a subject matter expert on Global Procurement Service procure to pay processes, relevant policies, and controls.
• Define training requirements and accordingly develop training materials for acquired company personnel on policies and best practices
• Develop innovative approaches to review procurement process effectiveness
• Bring a change management engagement approach while influencing and bringing the acquired on the integration journey.
• Provide recommendations on all procurement-related issues, plans, reports, training and metrics.
• Identify and develop standard processes that address the company’s acquisition program requirements.
• Flexible to adjust to changing business need

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• grants of Cisco restricted stock units
• 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
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
• flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
• 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
• annual bonuses
• performance-based incentive pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior