Partner Inventory Manager

Meet the Team

Join the Supply Chain organization at Cisco. We are a collaborative team passionate about leading complex supply chain operations and manufacturing partnerships. We are dedicated to optimizing inventory, improving business processes, and ensuring that our manufacturing ecosystem supports Cisco’s operational and financial objectives.

Your Impact

As a Partner Inventory Manager, you will handle end-to-end inventory and supply processes with assigned contract manufacturers or Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs). You will serve as a primary contact for manufacturing partners, ensuring alignment with Cisco’s supply chain requirements, performance metrics, and process improvements. Your work will directly influence our ability to complete business plans and deliver high-quality

products.

• Lead end-to-end inventory and supply management processes with assigned contract manufacturers or ODM partners.
• Develop, implement, and maintain inventory and supply processes to ensure operational efficiency.
• Prepare and deliver reports on process progress and outcomes to internal collaborators and manufacturing partners.
• Analyze interdependencies between business processes and supply chain metrics.
• Lead transformational project work to improve business processes and supply chain systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field, plus 7 or more years of professional experience in manufacturing or supply chain.
• Detailed professional experience handling end-to-end inventory and supply processes with contract manufacturers or ODM partners.
• Professional experience applying manufacturing processes, procedures, and lean principles within an industrial environment.
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating and communicating requirements with internal teams and external supplier organizations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration (MBA) or a related quantitative field.
• Experience in leading cross-functional project teams to deliver process or system improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to function optimally within a virtual, global team environment.
• Experience in reporting performance metrics to executive leadership or external partners.
• Experience running complex supply chain data sets to drive business outcomes.

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.

Why Cisco?

Cisconians power the future. We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale. The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers – it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn. We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together. Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life’s best work.