Strategy & Planning Manager

This position can be performed remotely from any location within the United States by candidates legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Meet the Team

The Global Sales Tech Stack team is part of the Sales Operations Organization at Cisco. It is responsible for tool strategy and adoption across all sales personas, including tools for deal management, forecasting, and customer engagement.

Your Impact

Your role will be essential in developing forecasting processes, strategies, and enablement initiatives aligned with sales and finance priorities. By working closely with cross-functional leaders, you’ll drive a collaborative approach that strengthens forecasting accuracy, transparency, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary liaison between the sales organizations and other forecasting stakeholders, ensuring that unique needs are fully integrated into the unified forecasting process.
• Collaborate with Sales, Finance, & Operational teams to define forecasting requirements, goals, and deliverables that support a streamlined, end-to-end process.
• Lead the development and rollout of enablement programs for forecasting needs, working closely with enablement teams to ensure training and support.
• Define and implement processes and solutions that improve forecasting accuracy and insights, aligning these initiatives with the company’s broader forecasting strategy.
• Regularly gather feedback from current and future team members to ensure their needs are met, refine processes, tools, and enablement materials as needed.
• Drive project management efforts for all initiatives in the organization, ensuring landmarks are met and deliverables align with the strategic vision for forecasting transformation.
• Provide regular updates and insights to executive leadership on progress, forecasting integration, and identifying challenges, solutions, and areas for improvement.
• Build performance indicators to measure success using data to support continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Business Administration or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in sales operations or program/project management within a large technology company.
• Demonstrated experience in developing sales processes, forecasting strategies, or sales enablement, including experience integrating functional requirements into larger operational frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or PMP certification is a plus.
• Experience with Revenue Forecasting is a plus.
• 10 years of sales operations or program/project management within a large technology company.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional projects and driving collaboration across departments.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with experience communicating at an executive level.
• Strong project management capabilities with experience handling complex initiatives, meeting timelines, and driving successful outcomes.
• Familiarity with forecasting tools, CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Clari, Gong), and data-driven forecasting methodologies.
• Strategic thinker who can anticipate challenges, find opportunities, and build solutions.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era—and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $128,400.00 to $191,600.00 for new hires 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. The full salary range for specific locations is listed below:

• New York City Metro Area: $173,400.00 - $265,200.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $161,300.00 - $235,500.00

For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Restricted stock units (RSUs), which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• Paid time away, 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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.
  • 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, with no defined limit on vacation time (subject to availability and business limitations).
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward.
  • 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.
• For non-sales roles, employees are eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, split between quota and non-quota components.