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Meet the Team
Join Cisco's Silicon Operations Team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of networking as the NPI Product Supply Chain Program Manager (SCPM) for our innovative Cisco Silicon One™ products. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of next-generation network technology, working within a dynamic and customer-focused supply chain organization.
As a key member of the Silicon Manufacturing Operations (SMO) team, you will be the end-to-end owner for a product family, ensuring seamless supply chain execution from customer demand to product delivery.
Your Impact

• Production Readiness: Usher our new products from concept to production release by ensuring core operational checklists are completed supporting manufacturability at high volume.
• Demand & Supply Alignment: Translate customer demand for prototypes, pilots and production ramp into actionable resource requirements, including raw materials, capacity enablement, and manufacturing schedules.
• Order Management: Manage supply allocation and sales orders, including assigning Schedule Ship Dates (SSD) for new orders and revisions.
• Managing Planning Parameters: Proactively analyze and manage system lead times and yields, communicating updates weekly to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Internal Customer Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for customer inquiries, providing timely responses (within 24 hours). Understand customer demand and translate to resource requirements (raw materials, loading plan, capacity need, etc)
• Materials Management: Oversee the procurement of materials and purchase order (PO) timing against schedules.
• Manufacturing Execution: Issue assembly build instructions in collaboration with Assembly Engineering (ASY ENG), manage assembly loading schedules and priorities, and manage testing instructions and schedules with Test Engineering.
• Fulfillment Oversight: Create weekly assembly loading plans based on committed ship plans, and proactively monitor fulfillment to ensure on-time delivery.
• Inventory Management: Develop and maintain a rolling 6-month ship plan.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in supply planning or supply chain management within the semiconductor industry.
• Experience working with semiconductor manufacturing processes and supply chain principles.
• Experience working with BOM structures, manufacturing routing processes (including alternative routes and materials), and product configurations.
• Experience with ERP systems and advanced planning tools.

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent education and experience.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, specifically working with dynamic scenario planning
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Project management certification (e.g., PMP) is a plus.

You will be joining our Cisco Silicon One team which is the center of Cisco's SW and ASIC design, driving our game changing next generation network devices - Cisco Silicon One™. Our unique team works in a startup atmosphere inside a stable and leading corporation. Our R&D center and development principals are unique, hosting all silicon HW and SW development disciplines inside under our group.
We are transforming the industry and building a new internet for the 5G era, providing a unified, programmable silicon architecture that is the foundation of all Cisco's and other Network future routing products. Our devices are designed to be universally adaptable across service providers and web-scale markets, designed for fixed and modular platforms. Our devices deliver high speed without sacrificing programmability, buffering, power efficiency, scale, or feature flexibility.
Cisco Silicon One™ is a revolutionary, ground-breaking technology for our customers and end users for decades to come! The Internet now has a new faster, better, safer engine!
Learn more about Cisco's Silicon One Product line here:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/innovation/silicon-one.html
https://fortune.com/2019/12/11/cisco-ceo-chuck-robbins-chips/?_lrsc=ce750ac5-11c8-4995-bfd3-936de1c06009&dtid=osolin001080
https://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3775619,00.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJuFrZC-GE&list=PLFT-9JpKjRTA0aqRbr5sR2iiaqVtK6Wf0&index=1
https://blogs.cisco.com/sp/five-principles-at-the-heart-of-cisco-silicon-one?_lrsc=6c2b8b61-b513-4457-bdc9-12b9f9ecef45&dtid=osolin001080
Key Words:
#SiOps, #CiscoSiliconOne
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 $140,800.00 to $183,000.00 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.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 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:
$140,800.00 - $210,500.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$128,200.00 - $186,700.00
* 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.