Acquisition Integration Specialist
About the role
Cisco's Corporate Development Integration (CDI) organization partners across Finance, Legal, Sales, Customer Experience, Operations, and various business units to successfully integrate acquired businesses into Cisco. This is a high-visibility, high-growth opportunity for someone early in their career who learns fast, thrives with ambiguity, and enjoys working as part of a team.
Responsibilities
- Support customer migration strategy from acquisition due diligence through execution, helping ensure acquired customers are successfully onboarded to Cisco's products, pricing, contracts, and operational processes.
- Review legacy customer contracts, commercial terms, pricing structures, renewal models, and termination provisions to develop an understanding of customer obligations and migration complexity.
- Analyze how customers purchase products and services, reconcile contractual information with booking and revenue data, and help identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities throughout the integration process.
- Work closely with Legal, Customer Experience, Sales, Business Unit leadership, and other cross-functional stakeholders to help define migration strategies that transition customers from legacy business models onto Cisco's pricing, systems, and quote-to-cash processes.
- Contribute to strategy discussions, help identify edge cases and operational challenges, and support continuous refinement of migration plans as new information becomes available.
- Coordinate cross-functional execution by supporting program plans, tracking milestones, facilitating recurring team meetings, proactively identifying blockers, competing priorities, and making key decisions requiring leadership attention.
Requirements
- BS/BA degree
- 0–3 years of professional experience, including internships, rotational programs, or early-career roles in business operations, consulting, finance, or related fields
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to learn new systems, business processes, and technical concepts quickly
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
Qualifications
- Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for learning mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, customer operations, or revenue processes
- Interest in applying AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve business processes and operational efficiency
- Experience working collaboratively across multiple functions within a company
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
Skills
- Contract analysis
- Customer operations
- Revenue processes
- Mergers and acquisitions
Benefits
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.
Pay
The starting salary range posted for this position is $80,200.00 to $106,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.
Schedule
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
- 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 a 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