Remote AI-Driven Strategy & Planning Lead

Cisco; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a strategic planning professional to translate visions into actionable goals, using data, AI-enabled insights, and planning tools. You will drive S&P priorities, model scenarios, and advise executives on resource optimization across regions, aligning initiatives with enterprise AI strategy.

Expect collaboration across teams, independent workstreams, and a focus on measurable outcomes. Experience with AI-driven analytics and planning tools is highly valued for shaping future

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience using data and business insights to support planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, or strategic decision-making.
• Prior experience and ability to manage workstreams independently, prioritize deliverables, and execute against defined business objectives and timelines.
• Comfortable collaborating across multiple teams and functional stakeholders to gather inputs, resolve dependencies, and deliver business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Drives incremental advancements by supporting focused S&P priorities through AI-augmented modeling
• Typically, provides: Support to a part(s) of global S&P areas (e.g., scenario modeling for changes to key products, competitive analysis for potential new market entry), or; Broad enabling S&P support for a region
• Surfaces friction or divergence in developing strategic priorities or plans by leveraging AI-powered conflict-identification analysis
• Sequences activities and aligns timing with resourcing using AI-driven optimization models
• Identifies strategic opportunities and/or misalignments
• Integrates multiple analyses to shape strategic storylines supported by AI-powered synthesis models
• Monitors trends across metrics and flags gaps to intended objectives using AI-driven anomaly detection
• Advises on course corrections by connecting issues to risks and identifying resource needs based on AI-modeled impact assessments
• Drives enhancements to S&P processes that reduce friction and increase business relevance by integrating AI-driven process optimization
• Connects external shifts to customer priorities to uncover future opportunities
• Leverages competitive and portfolio knowledge to guide work of self and others
• Coordinates across teams to integrate broader perspectives
• Ensures deliverables reflect cross-functional interdependencies by leveraging AI-driven dependency mapping
• Articulates own team's position and reinforces clarity around deliverables
• Uses setbacks and new information to strengthen own capabilities

Skills

Data analytics

Forecasting

Strategic decision-making

Cross-functional collaboration

AI & planning tools

Tools

BI tools

Data visualization

Job description

Cisco is seeking a strategic planning professional to translate visions into actionable goals, using data, AI-enabled insights, and planning tools. You will drive S&P priorities, model scenarios, and advise executives on resource optimization across regions, aligning initiatives with enterprise AI strategy.

Expect collaboration across teams, independent workstreams, and a focus on measurable outcomes. Experience with AI-driven analytics and planning tools is highly valued for shaping future