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Sourcing Commodity Manager, Power Supply

Location: San Jose, CA

Meet the Team

• Cisco Global Supplier Management (GSM) team is seeking a motivated **Technical Sourcing Commodity Manager for Power Supply Commodity.**You will join a highly impactful and dynamic organization collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers on early technology sensing and sourcing engagement across Cisco engineering teams.
• We work closely with hardware design engineering, component engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers to develop the next generation of Products including AI. We work with the industry leading Power Supply suppliers to develop the technology roadmaps, aligned to Cisco's Next Generation Technology development, delivering cutting edge technologies at price. We take a lot of pride in developing these next generation technologies for our Customers!

Role Clarification

• This role is engineering-facing, technically hands-on, and requires comfort engaging in detailed technical discussions related to power supply design, materials, and manufacturing processes. Success in this role requires direct experience supporting power supply designs through development, manufacturing, and scale, including hands-on technical problem solving with supplier engineering teams. While the role works closely with suppliers, it is not a procurement, purchasing, or category management position.

Your Impact

• Provide industry (Power Supply) knowledge, technology evolutions and understanding of market trends (cost, technology, supply chain design, technology ecosystem)
• Define and set strategic direction
• Collaborate with Business Unit partners to understand the long-term requirements, mapping requirements into supply base offering, roadmap gap closure and facilitate optimal component selection
• Responsible for implementing sourcing decisions, risk assessment/mitigation and alternate technical solution development
• Be responsible for large, complex programs consisting of multiple locations and Business Units
• Self-starter, that can independently resolve large-scale project issues and manage appropriate partner concerns within Cisco as necessary.
• International travel might be required

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering or equivalent fields.
• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Could be a combination of engineering design with business strategy experience
• Power Supply architecture know-how, product manufacturing, and industry experience is a must
• Technical knowledge relevant to Power Supply technologies and specifications to cost model (Power Supply efficiency, semi-conductor impacting & relevance to Power Supply development)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive business strategy and implementation knowledge is required
• Technical and business-related problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal communication and relationship management skills
• Strong experience with Power Supply tech/ecosystem
• Demonstrated competency in driving rigorous quality control measures and continuous improvements to ensure product quality standards and reliability are consistently met.
• Experience or exposure to technical review for DFM (Design for Manufacturing), and manufacturing readiness.

S&TO

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $140,800.00 to $183,000.00 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 full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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. 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, and 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 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

For non-sales roles, employees are also 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, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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

New York City Metro Area:

$140,800.00 - $210,500.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$128,200.00 - $186,700.00

• 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.

Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.