Remote AI Strategy & Planning Lead

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; North Carolina; Remote; USD 114,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a strategic, data‑driven professional for S&P leadership. The role focuses on AI‑augmented planning, scenario modeling, and enterprise‑wide initiatives to shape long‑term strategy. You will advise executives and align resources with priorities, while partnering across teams in a remote U.S. setting.

Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, optimizing processes, and building forecasts with AI tools to inform measurable outcomes and actionable roadmaps.

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

Scenario analysis

Strategic decision-making

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

BI tools

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a strategic, data‑driven professional for S&P leadership. The role focuses on AI‑augmented planning, scenario modeling, and enterprise‑wide initiatives to shape long‑term strategy. You will advise executives and align resources with priorities, while partnering across teams in a remote U.S. setting.

Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, optimizing processes, and building forecasts with AI tools to inform measurable outcomes and actionable roadmaps.