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As a Regional Sales Planning Manager, you are part of the Global Planning Organization within Cisco Supply Chain. Our purpose is to engage with Sales partners and Customers to drive co-planning engagement with strategic customers in the region. You will analyze customer and market insights, support product transitions and develop your Customer’s forecast. You will collaborate with other forecast streams with your Sales Demand Line Forecast and positively impact Cisco’s overall Forecast accuracy and Customer satisfaction.
Job Responsibility:
Analyze customer and market insights, support product transitions and develop your Customer’s forecast
Collaborate with other forecast streams with your Sales Demand Line Forecast
Drive a Supply Chain alignment with Sales, Customers, Business Unit Leaders, Client Operations Managers, Finance and various internal partners
Work closely with Sales for critical deal management
Play an important role in the operational enablement of Cisco’s business targets
Translate customer information into the Product Planning Forecast
Manage co-planning / co-commit engagement with key Customers
Analyze market trends, customer needs, competitive landscape and product lifecycle
Incorporate these insights to Sales demand line forecast
Identify and understand the company strategy, portfolio, trends and margins in relation to co-planned account
Lead conversations
Communicate with cross functional teams that influence and drive optimized decisions with multiple executive stakeholders
Collaborate with regional sales leadership to create and implement sales plans and forecasts
Engage with the Customer on long-term Forecasting
Use various reporting tools like Kinaxis, Tableau, Business Objects, Salesforce.com, MBR
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Information Technology, or related field
8 years of Supply chain experience, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), in combination with business, business operations, and operations management / customer facing roles
MS/MBA preferred
Nice to have:
Has strong analytical and planning skills that can help lead to data-driven decisions
Excellent communication and leadership capabilities
Experience in managing multiple programs with medium to large functional teams
Provides thought leadership
Able to work collaboratively across multiple teams and regions
Manages challenges openly and directly
Experience in Tableau, Business Objects and Kinaxis an advantage