EMEA Strategy & Planning Manger, Collaboration
Meet the Team
Global Specialists is a dynamic organization, where innovation and technology come together to deliver customer outcomes. The Collaboration Sales Strategy & Planning team focuses on driving growth, improving seller efficiency, and ensuring the business operates efficiently. We are part of the centralized Global Specialist Strategy and Planning (GSSP) organization that is tasked to drive strategy, planning, and operations in support of Cisco’s Specialist Sales Teams.
We need a world class Sales Planning & Operations leader who can design that plan to make our sales teams do just that. We are seeking a best-in-class Collaboration SP&O professional to run our EMEA Collaboration operation.
Your Impact
You will collaborate with a diverse set of leaders across Sales, Operations, Finance, and Business Units to align our strategies and drive our growth initiatives. Ensure the business launches each half and year with strategic plans on time, develop processes to accelerate timing. Be fact-based and hands on with data and analysis where needed while also using existing standard methodologies wherever possible. Responsibilities include:
1. Drive key GTM initiatives and programs: Accelerate select initiatives and sales-play programs
2. Strategic Planning: Assess business trends using bookings, pipeline, and product-specific data to drive appropriate business accountability, operational efficiency gains, and GTM strategy understanding.
3. Conduct Strategic, Data-Driven Analyses: Advise GTM strategy that supports growth and scale of the global business
4. Executive Communication: Tell the Collaboration story in both what we do and what we will do to senior executives across product business unit and executive leadership teams
5. Cross-Functional Interaction: Proactively interact with cross-functional teams to better understand strengths and opportunities in the business, while aligning to action
6. Build Growth Plan: Develop a growth plan in pipe generation from efficient demand generation through marketing, partners, and the build-out of a repeatable sales play engine
Minimum Qualifications:
7. 7+ years' experience in a combination of sales strategy, operations, or management consulting.
8. Strong communications & influencing skills, experience speaking publicly & working with partners at all levels, producing exec level content and conducting executive conversations.
9. Strong in framing & structuring business problems, prioritizing the effort, conducting complex quantitative and qualitative analysis, building an exec level story complete with recommendations.
10. Proven experience partnering with executive sales leaders to achieve growth targets.
11. Data expert that is able to see the heart of the results or opportunities to drive action.
Preferred Qualifications
12. SaaS revenue operations experience preferred.
13. Minimum BA/BS; MBA a plus.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.