Develop market sizing, segmentation, competitive, customer, and channel analyses to identify growth opportunities and guide product and go-to-market choices.
Build business cases and scenario models that quantify volume, price, mix, software and support attach, investment, gross margin, and breakeven.
Establish trusted metrics and reporting for portfolio and business performance; partner with Finance and data teams on definitions, data quality, dashboards, and AI-enabled analytical workflows.
Lead pricing and monetization analytics across the portfolio, including price architecture, packaging, tiering, and discounting, and translate the analysis into recommendations for product and business leaders.
Lead cross-functional analyses and business reviews, communicate decision-ready recommendations and trade-offs to senior leaders, and measure outcomes after decisions are implemented.
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary pricing and analytics team, setting clear priorities and analytical standards, coaching and developing talent, and remaining hands-on in structuring critical analyses and reviewing the quality of the team’s work.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
12+ years of experience in pricing, business analytics, finance, product management, strategy, or a related discipline.
Experience leading pricing, packaging, and monetization strategy or analytics for a technology portfolio.
Experience building quantitative business cases and scenario models using financial, product, customer, competitive, or market data.
Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams across pricing, analytics, strategy, finance, data science, or related functions, including hands-on involvement in structuring critical analyses and reviewing work quality.
Experience translating complex quantitative analysis into clear executive narratives and driving cross-functional decisions with senior leaders in a complex, matrixed organization.
Experience using analytical, data-visualization, automation, or AI-enabled tools to analyze complex datasets and build decision support.
Preferred Qualifications
MBA or advanced degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
Experience in enterprise networking, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, SaaS, or a related technology market.
Experience in management consulting or corporate strategy roles focused on technology portfolio, pricing, or commercial decisions.
Experience with complex technology portfolios spanning hardware, software, services, and subscription offers.
Experience with hardware-to-software and recurring-revenue transitions, including tiered software or subscription offers.
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.
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