NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.  

Meet the Team 

Product, Component, & Quality Operations is the operations engine that transforms engineering innovation into products and solutions at scale to deliver margin, quality, and deliver outcomes to customers. We launch products using competitive operational solutions and optimized processes, and we focus on cost, quality, and delivery.  We also enable the end-to-end processes and systems required to scale and operate the vertically-integrated silicon and optics component models.

Your Impact 

The Product Operations Team is looking for a motivated and experienced individual (PLPM) to drive the overall cost management and product life cycle from TTQV (Time to Quality & Volume) to EOL.

As the PLPM, you are responsible for continuously improving the cost and quality performance metrics and the entire lifecycle management of the commodities/peripherals. You'll be encouraged to influence Manufacturing, Engineering, and Marketing management in determining the strategy and execution of technical solutions in worldwide manufacturing.

You are also the team leader for overall cost management and product line performance metrics throughout the product or program lifecycle from NPI to EOL.

Specific areas of responsibilities in this role will include multiple commodity/peripherals that are used on Hyperscaler business PF's

The PLPM may oversee some or all of the following functional areas as assigned by the MPO to ensure the product cost and quality performance metrics are met from NPI to EOL:

• The VE Planning and Management
• Overall Cost Owner
• Change Management
• MCNs
• Compliance
• Execution of Supply Chain changes
• Engineering change implementation
• Responsible for sustaining critical issues (i.e. line stop resolution, CAP accounts, AVL management, manufacturing process improvement)
• EOL Strategy and Planning development with integrated product team
• EOL Strategy execution
• Risk management (multi-source tech assessment, component, cost variance, supply chain review over product lifecycle)
• Action planning for product field performance (quality)
• Drive closed-loop communication on sustaining design issues to influence DFX for new products
• Responsible for monitoring, reporting, and managing critical product lifecycle metrics

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS Required, MBA Preferred

• 8+ Years of Project Management Experience

• Deep knowledge of Cost & product lifecycle management from FCS to End of Life

• Functional knowledge of product development methodologies (IE. Agile, Waterfall, etc.)

• Working knowledge and understanding of different manufacturing and fulfillment models (i.e. EMS, OEM/ODM/JDM, Build-To-Stock, Software fulfillment, Country enablement)

• Experience with data analytic tools (e.g. Tableau, Smartsheet, etc.) to apply to business problems

• Working knowledge of new sharing environments (eg. Spark, Box, Jive) to foster teamwork and communication

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.