Strategy & Planning Manager

🔥 0 minutes ago

🐊 Florida, New Hampshire, +5 more states – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote 🗻 New Hampshire – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $114.1k - $157k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored H1B visas in the past.

👻 Ghost score 0%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Cisco

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Support annual fiscal-year planning, quarterly planning, and next-quarter readiness by maintaining milestones, inputs, templates, dependencies, and deliverables • Coordinate QBRs, forecast and performance reviews, leadership all-hands, offsites, and business planning meetings • Prepare meeting materials and track decisions and actions • Maintain rolling leadership calendars and action trackers • Identify missed inputs, scheduling conflicts, risks, and follow-ups across collaborators • Build and maintain Excel-based financial and operating models for bookings, forecast scenarios, attainment, pipeline coverage, conversion, slippage, and performance against plan • Conduct variance, trend, and scenario analysis to explain performance drivers and identify risks and opportunities • Consolidate Sales, Finance, and Strategy & Planning inputs into executive summaries, end-of-quarter factbooks, pre-earnings commentary, and data-backed recommendations • Develop Excel models, trackers, templates, and recurring reports using pivot tables, complex formulas, lookups, sensitivity analysis, data validation, and structured datasets • Support pipeline movement, health and hygiene, and future-quarter build reporting • Develop visualizations and dashboards using Excel, Power BI, or similar tools • Validate data quality, reconcile conflicting inputs, document reporting logic, and improve leadership reporting consistency and timeliness • Use approved AI tools to accelerate analysis, summarize inputs, draft executive materials, and support planning workflows while validating outputs and protecting critical data • Create reusable prompts, templates, automations, and documented processes to reduce manual effort and improve scalability • Partner with Run the Business and planning teams, Americas Sales leaders, Finance, and cross-functional Strategy & Planning stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in financial analysis, FP&A, sales operations analytics, business planning, corporate strategy, or another quantitatively rigorous business analyst role • Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including financial or operational modeling, pivot tables, complex formulas, lookups, sensitivity/scenario analysis, and large dataset analysis • Experience performing variance and performance analysis, developing forecasts or scenarios, and producing decision-ready business reports or executive presentations • Strong quantitative reasoning and business acumen • Ability to challenge assumptions, reconcile discrepancies, interpret financial and sales metrics, and explain implications • Organization, attention to detail, stakeholder coordination, and ability to manage multiple deadlines • Practical experience using AI tools for research, synthesis, reporting, or workflow productivity, with appropriate validation • Clear written and verbal communication skills • Ability to collaborate during U.S. East Coast business hours • Preferred: experience in corporate finance, FP&A, management consulting, commercial analytics, or enterprise Sales Operations • Preferred: understanding of bookings, forecast, pipeline coverage, attainment, conversion, deal slippage, and quarter-end financial or operating reporting • Preferred: experience with Power BI, Salesforce reporting, PowerPoint, financial planning tools, or other business intelligence platforms • Preferred: experience developing repeatable AI-assisted workflows, process automations, or self-service reporting • Preferred: exposure to annual planning, QBRs, leadership offsites, action tracking, or executive factbooks

🏖️ 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 • Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • Paid day off for employee’s birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies • Performance-based incentive pay for employees on sales plans