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Program Management Lead, Segment Strategy & Process
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$103.3K - $217.9K / year
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Program Management Lead, Segment Strategy & Process
Cisco
Role Description You will own end-to-end program management for the full suite of initiatives driven by the Business Segment Strategy & Process team — from program setup and day-to-day project management through leadership reporting, stakeholder management, business case development, and cross-functional interlocks that ensure successful delivery (e.g., Business Capabilities, Activation). What You Will Do - Program Setup & Management: Drive foundational program setup across our initiative portfolio — including project plan and roadmap creation — and manage the team to deliver against key dates, activities, and achievements. Proactively surface and resolve risks and dependencies, identify the business decisions required, and ensure they get made. - Leadership Reporting: Own the creation and cadence of recurring leadership status reporting across the full team portfolio. - Stakeholder Management: Drive interlocks with our extended stakeholder network — establishing the cadence and owning the meetings end to end, including agenda and facilitation. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ensure effective interlocks with all functions involved in delivery (e.g., Business Capabilities, Activation). Recommend the cadences that best keep us aligned, and own them from creation through facilitation. - Business Case Creation: Partner with the Segment Strategy & Process leads to define success metrics for each initiative and build the business cases that justify and measure them. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience. - Communication & Influence: You collaborate effectively and build credibility and trust across an extended stakeholder network. - Program Management Core Skills: You know how to stand up a program from day one — the cadences and collateral required, the foundational steps (stakeholder mapping, scope and phasing definition), and how to build and manage a detailed project plan in Asana. Preferred Requirements - AI Proficiency: You harness AI effectively as both a thought partner and an efficiency multiplier — whether that's accelerating status reporting and meeting summaries, pressure-testing a case, or drafting first-pass narratives and presentations. You're always looking for creative new ways to infuse it into how you and the team work. - Transformational Program Expertise: You've managed a comprehensive transformational program spanning strategy creation, capability delivery, and enablement — and you understand how those components fit together. - Independent, Creative Problem Solving: The team will rely on you to anticipate and prevent issues, and to creatively solve them when they arise. - Storytelling Ability: You can craft a narrative and present to all levels of seniority. You have very strong PowerPoint skills and can independently build a compelling presentation. - Leadership: You take genuine ownership, want to help build the team's strategic direction, and advise on standard methodologies to improve how we operate. - Cisco Sales Acumen: You bring a baseline understanding of Cisco's business and Sales motions. Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision insurance. - 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution. - Paid parental leave. - Short and long-term disability coverage. - Basic life insurance. - 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 a 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.
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