Sourcing Commodity Manager (remote) - 2019059
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate, navigation, EEO, etc. Keep substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Application window expected to close on: 10/15/2026 (maybe include as metadata in a short
). - Position: Sourcing Commodity Manager (remote) - remote position anywhere in U.S. with preference for candidates in San Jose CA, Austin TX, Raleigh/Durham NC. - Impact description: As a Technical Sourcing Commodity Manager for Memory and Storage, you own technical decisions and cost outcomes for memory and storage commodities by partnering closely with hardware engineering, manufacturing, and supplier engineering teams. You sit at the intersection of engineering, manufacturing, and supplier technology development—helping bring Cisco products to life that do not yet exist. You will influence design decisions, enable supplier technical readiness, and remove development barriers from concept through mass production. Your work directly impacts Cisco’s ability to deliver innovative, high-performance networking and AI systems at scale—ensuring designs are manufacturable, resilient, and production-ready while meeting aggressive performance and reliability requirements. - Role Clarification: This role is engineering-facing, technically hands-on, and requires comfort engaging in detailed technical discussions related to memory & storage design, materials, and manufacturing processes. Success in this role requires direct experience supporting hardware designs through development, manufacturing, and scale, including hands-on technical problem solving with supplier engineering teams. - Meet the Team: description of Cisco’s Global Supplier Management (GSM) organization. - Responsibilities: list with subheadings (Engineering & Technology Alignment, Supplier Technical Leadership, NPI Execution & Scale Readiness, Value Engineering & Multi-Sourcing, Supply Resilience & Risk Management, Business Reviews & Technical Reporting, Operational Excellence). Each has bullet points. - Minimum Required Qualifications: bullet list. - Preferred Qualifications: bullet list. - Why Cisco?: paragraph about company. - Message to applicants: includes salary range: starting salary range posted for this position is $143,100.00 to $185,900.00 and reflects 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 determined by location, market, etc. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, recruiter can share more details. - Benefits: description of benefits: medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) with match, paid parental leave, short/long-term disability, basic life insurance. Also mention Cisco RSUs, paid time away details: 10 paid holidays + 1 floating holiday for non-exempt, 1 paid day off for birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, 4 paid days off for personal wellness, non-exempt employees receive 16 days vacation accrued at 4.92 hrs per pay period, exempt employees flexible vacation, 80 hours sick time per year, etc. Also optional volunteer days, annual bonuses, etc. - Pay: we have salary ranges and location-specific ranges: New York City Metro Area $143,100 - $213,800; Non-Metro New York State & Washington State $130,300 - $189,600. Also mention that for quota-based sales roles ranges include base+incentive but this role is not sales? It's technical. So we can still include Pay section with the salary range info. - Schedule: Not mentioned explicitly. No schedule info. So we should not create Schedule section. - Benefits: we have benefits details. So include Benefits section. - Skills: maybe not explicit separate; but we could include under Qualifications or Skills. The posting includes Preferred Qualifications with skills like excellent technical communication, problem-solving, stakeholder engagement. Could put under Skills section. But we need to decide: The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should include sections that have real specific content. We have About the role (impact + role clarification + meet the team). Responsibilities (list). Requirements (maybe Minimum Required Qualifications). Qualifications (maybe Preferred Qualifications). Skills (maybe from preferred qualifications). Benefits (details). Pay (salary ranges). We'll avoid duplication. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can reorganize under headings. We must not include boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. The posting includes "The application window is expected to close on: 10/15/2026". That's not boilerplate; we keep it as a short p. We must not repeat job title as heading. So we won't have
Sourcing Commodity Manager
. We'll start with maybeAbout the role
containing impact description, role clarification, meet the team. We need to ensure we preserve all substantive info: that includes the location preference (remote anywhere in US with preference for San Jose, Austin, Raleigh/Durham). Also the application close date. We need to include the bullet lists exactly as given (or close). We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the bullet points verbatim? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should keep the content, but we can reformat into HTML lists. It's okay to keep the same wording. We need to remove duplicated lines: there may be duplicated lines like "Additional responsibilities may be assigned based on evolving business priorities." appears under Responsibilities. We'll keep it once. We need to remove boilerplate like "Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:" but we need to keep the salary and benefits info within that. So we can keep the salary and benefits content but drop the heading "Message to applicants..." as it's boilerplate? It's part of the posting but maybe considered boilerplate? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "Message to applicants..." is not exactly those categories, but it's more like a preface to compensation. Might be considered application instructions? It's not exactly instructions to apply, but it's a note. Safer to keep the substantive compensation info but we can drop the introductory sentence if it's considered boilerplate. However we need to preserve the salary range info. We'll keep the salary details. We also need to drop the duplicated lines like "Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units..." etc. We'll keep them. Now craft HTML. We'll start with afor metadata: application close date and location preference. Then
About the role
with paragraphs combining impact, role clarification, meet the team. We need to ensure we don't create empty sections. Let's draft. First, metadata:Application window closes: 10/15/2026. Location: Remote position anywhere in the U.S. with preference for candidates in San Jose, CA; Austin, TX; Raleigh/Durham, NC.
Now About the role: We'll combine:As a Technical Sourcing Commodity Manager for Memory and Storage, you own technical decisions and cost outcomes for memory and storage commodities by partnering closely with hardware engineering, manufacturing, and supplier engineering teams. You sit at the intersection of engineering, manufacturing, and supplier technology development—helping bring Cisco products to life that do not yet exist. You will influence design decisions, enable supplier technical readiness, and remove development barriers from concept through mass production. Your work directly impacts Cisco’s ability to deliver innovative, high-performance networking and AI systems at scale—ensuring designs are manufacturable, resilient, and production-ready while meeting aggressive performance and reliability requirements.
This role is engineering-facing, technically hands-on, and requires comfort engaging in detailed technical discussions related to memory & storage design, materials, and manufacturing processes. Success in this role requires direct experience supporting hardware designs through development, manufacturing, and scale, including hands-on technical problem solving with supplier engineering teams.
Cisco’s Global Supplier Management (GSM) organization partners deeply with hardware engineering, manufacturing, and industry-leading suppliers to enable next-generation technologies across Cisco’s networking and AI platforms. The team focuses on early technical engagement, supplier capability development, and execution excellence—ensuring Cisco designs are ready to scale from prototype through mass production.
Now Responsibilities: We'll haveResponsibilities
then a- with each bullet as
- . The bullet points include subheadings like Engineering & Technology Alignment etc. We could keep them as part of the bullet text. We need to preserve all bullet points exactly as given. Let's list them: - Partner with Hardware Design Engineering, Component Engineering, and Manufacturing to align supplier technologies with Cisco’s product architecture and roadmap. - Participate in technical design reviews with internal teams and suppliers, evaluating feasibility, manufacturability, and performance tradeoffs. - Drive early supplier technical engagement for new designs and architectures. - Lead supplier technology roadmap discussions, assessing design approaches, materials, processes, and manufacturing capabilities. - Technical escalation point for supplier-related design, yield, reliability, and manufacturability issues. - Hold suppliers accountable to development milestones, technical readiness, and qualification schedules. - Lead/Own supplier technical readiness from prototype through mass production. - Facilitate hands-on collaboration between supplier engineering teams and Cisco engineers to resolve design and manufacturing issues. - Support ramp readiness, yield improvement, and transition from NPI into sustained production. - Drive value engineering initiatives that improve cost efficiency without compromising technical performance or reliability. - Identify and develop second-source strategies that strengthen design robustness and supply flexibility. - Support geographic diversification and non-China manufacturing strategies. - Identify technical and manufacturing risks; develop mitigation plans in partnership with engineering and suppliers. - Lead supplier reviews covering technology readiness, NPI execution, yield, capacity, and risk. - Provide clear technical status updates to cross-functional leadership. - Partner with Component Engineering on quality investigations and corrective actions. - Drive continuous improvement using diverse methodologies. - Define technical KPIs and enable data-driven execution across suppliers. - Additional responsibilities may be assigned based on evolving business priorities. We'll put each as
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Now Requirements: Minimum Required Qualifications.
We'll have
Requirements
with- of the three bullet points:
- 5+ years technical experience in memory & storage technologies (especially for NAND solutions - SSD, eMMC, UFS, uSD, etc), including design support and manufacturing engagement.
- 8+ years experience working directly with hardware design engineering teams on New Product Introductions (NPI).
- 8+ years experience engaging suppliers on technical development, qualification, and manufacturing readiness, cost negotiations, should-cost modeling, contract management, and obtaining quotations (RFQ/RFI process) from suppliers.
Now Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications.
Qualifications
with- :
- Master’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
- Experience with memory & storage technology or in memory suppliers.
- Familiarity with AI system architectures and high-performance computing platforms.
- Excellent technical communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Now Skills: Could we separate skills from qualifications? The preferred qualifications already include skills. But we could still have a Skills section for those skills. However to avoid duplication, we might combine them. The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we skip Skills section and keep skills under Qualifications. But the instruction list includes Skills as a possible heading; we can omit if not needed. We'll decide to not create a separate Skills section to avoid thin duplication.
Now Benefits: We need to include all