Strategy & Planning Manager

Cisco; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco's Strategy & Planning team partners with executives to translate vision into actionable priorities using AI-enabled planning. The role focuses on cross-functional process improvements, data-driven investment decisions, and multi-year forecasting to drive enterprise growth and agility.

The position emphasizes consensus-building across diverse stakeholders and robust scenario modeling to ensure long-term feasibility and strategic alignment with OneCisco initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience with a Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years with a Master's degree
• 3+ years with a PhD
• Experience leading market and competitive analysis using advanced analytics or AI-enabled tools
• Experience developing business plans, forecasts, and scenario models to evaluate investment trade-offs
• Experience managing digital transformation initiatives or recurring revenue business models
• PMP certification
• CPMAI designation
• Lean Six Sigma certification
• Ability to build consensus and align strategic agendas across diverse, cross-functional stakeholders
• Proficiency in AI-enhanced storytelling and framing complex data insights for executive audiences

Responsibilities

• Translate strategic visions into defined priorities and AI-enhanced planning frameworks to ensure measurable business outcomes.
• Manage structural advancements and cross-functional process improvements to simplify decision-making and increase organizational speed.
• Advise executive leadership on investment strategies and resource optimization using data-driven, AI-enhanced insights.
• Facilitate annual and multi-year planning processes by embedding rigorous feedback loops and scenario modeling to evaluate long-term feasibility.
• Build cross-functional consensus and present clear recommendations that frame trade-offs and risks for senior stakeholders to ensure continuity of intent.

Skills

Market analysis

Competitive analysis

Advanced analytics

AI-enabled tools

Business planning

Forecasting

Scenario modeling

Digital transformation

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 10/21/2026

Meet the Team

Our Strategy & Planning team serves as the vital bridge between Cisco's visionary goals and actionable market transformation. We integrate advanced analytics and AI-driven signals to shape enterprise-wide initiatives, ranging from digital transformation to recurring revenue models. As a global or regional support hub, we drive the "OneCisco" AI strategy to identify high-impact opportunities that keep the organization ahead of shifting market trends. Joining this team means working at the intersection of data-driven insights and executive decision-making to optimize resources and investments. You will collaborate in a high-impact environment where rigorous prioritization and innovative planning tools are the standard for success.

Your Impact

Translate strategic visions into defined priorities and AI-enhanced planning frameworks to ensure measurable business outcomes. Manage structural advancements and cross-functional process improvements to simplify decision-making and increase organizational speed. Advise executive leadership on investment strategies and resource optimization using data-driven, AI-enhanced insights. Facilitate annual and multi-year planning processes by embedding rigorous feedback loops and scenario modeling to evaluate long-term feasibility. Build cross-functional consensus and present clear recommendations that frame trade-offs and risks for senior stakeholders to ensure continuity of intent.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a Master’s degree, or 3+ years with a PhD.
• Experience leading market and competitive analysis using advanced analytics or AI-enabled tools.
• Experience developing business plans, forecasts, and scenario models to evaluate investment trade-offs.
• Experience managing digital transformation initiatives or recurring revenue business models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Certified Professional in Artificial Intelligence (CPMAI) designation.
• Lean Six Sigma certification.
• Ability to build consensus and align strategic agendas across diverse, cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proficiency in AI-enhanced storytelling and framing complex data insights for executive audiences.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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

The starting salary range posted for this position is $128,400.00 to $191,600.00 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.

• 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

$173,400.00 - $265,200.00

Non-Metro New York State & Washington State

$161,300.00 - $235,500.00

• 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.