Strategy & Planning Manager

About the role

The Strategic Enterprise PMO in Cisco’s Office of the CEO sits at the center of Cisco’s most critical enterprise priorities. We work directly with C-level executives and senior leaders to turn strategy into action, accelerate durable growth, and manage enterprise-level risk. This Strategy & Planning Manager is not a traditional PMO role. Our team is brought into high-stakes, cross-company initiatives where speed, structure, judgment, and accountability matter. We clarify complex problems, align senior stakeholders, build operating models, drive decisions, and keep execution moving across Cisco.

Your Impact

You will be part of a high-caliber team with direct exposure to executive decision-making and the opportunity to shape how Cisco delivers its most important work. You are a practical operator who creates clarity quickly, communicates with sound judgment, and with the ability to drive progress across matrixed teams.

Responsibilities

• Help drive strategic initiatives tied to Cisco's enterprise priorities, including AI-era cyber defense, global business acceleration, and competitive go-to-market execution.
• Translate executive direction into clear workstreams, owners, milestones, risks, dependencies and next steps
• Create structure in ambiguous work by helping define decision rights, escalation paths, operating cadences, executive updates, and sustainable operating models.
• Coordinate across product, sales, strategy, finance, legal, marketing, communications, operations, government affairs, and other functions
• Prepare executive-ready updates that summarize progress, risks, blockers, decisions needed and recommendations.
• Support portfolio discipline across intake, execution, operating model readiness, and business handoff.
• Build scalable, AI-enabled ways of working across templates, dashboards, reporting, workflows, and executive summaries.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, program management, consulting, or a related field
• Support of enterprise-level initiatives and business leadership teams
• Strong PowerPoint, Excel, project/program management, and communication skills
• Experience preparing leadership updates, dashboards, or decision materials
• Ability to work across U.S. and international time zones, as needed
• Ability to manage confidential and high-sensitivity information

Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree
• Experience in a technology company, management consulting firm, enterprise PMO, strategy, or business operations role managing programs in matrixed organizations
• Strong analytical, synthesis, and storytelling skills
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Asana, Airtable, Cursor, Codex, LLM chat models, AI agents, dashboards, workflow automation, or similar productivity platforms
• Ability to use AI tools to summarize inputs, draft executive updates, identify risks, automate workflows, and improve portfolio visibility
• Familiarity with go-to-market, product, security, AI, infrastructure, or competitive strategy initiatives

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Grants of Cisco restricted stock units
• Paid time away, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
• Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Pay

The starting salary range posted for this position is $117,400.00 to $172,500.00 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.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

• New York City Metro Area $148,800.00 - $238,300.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State $143,600.00 - $211,900.00

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