Supplier Commodity Manager - Strategic Silicon

The application window is expected to close on: 9/30/2025

Meet the Team

The Global Supplier Management (GSM) Organization is an industry leader in sourcing and supplier management that enables sustained innovation and supply chain excellence. You'll join a very motivated team that achieves record setting results and a fun group that helps each other be successful at work and play. Our team focus is to drive innovation as well as best in class cost, quality and delivery; in order to accomplish this you will work very closely with constituents across Supply Base, Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing, Marketing and Legal.

We are seeking a motivated Supplier Commodity Manager to manage Communications, Microprocessor, and Programmable Logic Device suppliers on our Strategic Silicon commodity management team. You will be part of a highly impactful and dynamic organization collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers.

Your Impact

You possess a combination of business experience, and strong interpersonal communication and relationship management skills, aren’t intimidated by titles and can work with people toward a shared goal.

You'll use your ability to influence, both inside and outside Cisco, to make sure we implement our strategy. Your top negotiation skills are used daily so that Cisco is competitive in the marketplace and our customers love our products.

In this role, you will:

Be accountable for the Commodity Strategy and the Supply-base enabling it

Manage quarterly negotiations of component cost and lead-times

Benchmark the assigned industry ensuring competitive value to Cisco by the managed supply-base. Collaborate with suppliers and align supplier roadmaps with Cisco’s future requirements.

Identify and track appropriate Market Indicators for the assigned Industry, anticipating market trends and transitions

Be accountable for all aspects of supplier relationship management including all technical, commercial, delivery and quality.

Negotiate, and implement all aspects/terms of MPAs, legal settlement/agreements, such as MOU, VMI agreements, etc.

Minimum requirements for this role:

• 5+ years of cross functional Supply Chain experience
• Experience in supplier management, as well as contracts review and management

Preferred Skills

• BA/BS in Business, Engineering and etc.; MBA highly preferred
• Ability to develop and execute short, mid, and long term strategies
• Expertise in building strong relationships internally and externally, and conflict resolution
• Adept at influencing decisions and developing solutions to complex business situations
• Strong experience with collaboration, communications, negotiations, facilitation and change management
• Ability to work across boundaries, earning trust, taking risk and being inclusive is highly valued
• Experience in Semiconductor - Communications, MPU, PLD is preferred

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.

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