Strategy & Planning Manager
Cisco•Research Triangle Park, NC
•$117,400 - $172,500•Hybrid
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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.
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
- 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
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
