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What You Will Do.

As a strategy lead you will be responsible for reviewing a business’ current strategy and goals to identify its potential strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement. You will be expected to work in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders across, operations, product, partner, IT, legal, finance, and trade teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop business plans that will be implemented by reviewing and establishing strategic priorities and convert them to quantitative and actionable plans.

• Develop and recommend viable scenarios for mitigating any potential risks and develop risk reports for the senior management and business leadership.

• Strategic managers develop and manage their business's [1] key performance indicators (KPI) to forecast and analyse business performance.

• Help coach senior leaders in implementing business plans that meet their goals.

• Provide support in strategizing individual functions and review, analyse and manage all existing functional strategies to ensure all functions align with the business's key strategies.

• Collaborate with the senior executive leadership in setting the businesses' agenda and vision and developing business goals.

• Use analytics for benchmarking initial results to measure long-term market trends which aid in making financial and resource decisions.

• Adopt strategies that try to raise business value and cut costs. While analyzing the major cause of the current state and provide a constructive solution and preventative plan.

• Ability to overcome political, behavioural, and systematic barriers to enable creativity, change and business growth.

• Conceptualize and develop unique initiatives which help provide alternative solutions to the existing problems, while also identifying gaps in the business and advice on the corrective actions necessary.

• Responsible for developing a culture of ethical behaviour in the business to support continued growth, productivity and positive employee and client relationships.

• Ensure strategies being promoted in a business earn profit and promote economic development.

• Assist business fit into the current dynamic economy by identifying and implementing relevant methods for increased business efficiency.

Who You Are:

• You have a minimum of bachelor’s degree in business or any other related field with at least 10 years of applicable experience, with a focus in supply chain, finance, economics or business management.

• You have strategic management experience in one or more of the following: Management consulting, Business Administration, Strategic Planning.

• You have experience working on i

• You have a good understanding of business procedures and operations is necessary.

• You have program management expertise, working knowledge of Supply Chain systems, and a proven ability to drive the efforts with large multi-functional teams

• You have ability to summarize detailed requirements into a digestible, fluid message that can be tailored for multiple levels of the organization

• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• You have strong organizational and planning skills.

• You have outstanding research and analytical abilities.

• You have strong leadership skills.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco

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1. https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/key-performance-indicators

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