Strategy & Planning Manager - Sales Incentives

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

The application window is expected to close on: 10/20/2026 This remote role is open to candidates in the United States, no relocation is available.

Your Impact

Translates visions into strategic goals, market positions, and transformation priorities. Forms insights and observations from internal and external data sources, including advanced analytics and AI‑driven signals, to inform forward‑looking strategies and planning decisions.

Leads market and competitive analysis to inform future direction, augmenting traditional research with AI‑enabled tools. Shapes enterprise‑wide initiatives (e.g., digital transformation, recurring revenue models) while driving a holistic "OneCisco" AI strategy to identify and implement high‑impact AI opportunities across the organization.

Advises executives on business/functional strategy, investment strategy, and resource optimization, supported by data‑driven and AI‑enhanced insights. Acts as internal consultants to align cross‑functional strategic agendas, applying rigorous prioritization discipline to identify low‑value initiatives for outsourcing or termination.

Develops business plans that connect long‑term vision to short‑term goals, establishing clear success criteria for every recommendation to ensure meThe asurable outcomes.

Sets targets, builds forecasts, and conducts scenario modeling, leveraging AI and advanced planning tools to evaluate trade‑offs, outcomes, and long‑term feasibility. Facilitates annual and multi‑year planning processes, embedding rigorous feedback loops to evaluate whether initiatives are moving the needle and adjusting course accordingly. Aligns resources and capabilities with strategic priorities. Supports data‑driven decisions through planning analytics, modeling AI proficiency by embedding advanced tools and prompt engineering into daily workflows to increase analytical depth.

What You'll Do:

• 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

Minimum Qualification s

• 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.

Preferred Qualification s

• Strong analytical capabilities, including experience with scenario modeling, trend analysis, KPI development, and performance measurement.
• Experience identifying performance gaps, business risks, process inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement and recommending appropriate actions.
• Experience developing materials and recommendations for senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proficiency with business intelligence, analytics, and planning tools, with experience using generative AI and prompt engineering to improve analytical or operational workflows.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. 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 exper