Engineering Project Manager

The application window is extended and expected to close on: June 29th, 5 PM ET

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

Meet The Team:

Cisco's Systems and Optics (SaO) Business Operations team is a high visibility, high impact group that maintains and tracks many day-to-day operations within Cisco - primarily contract services, engineering labs maintenance, and internal coordination. Our team is looking for a talented worker who out the gate would be able to start managing our operations and interfacing with both internal leaders and external vendors. Beyond Cisco's tools and software, all our work is managed on Microsoft Excel, Sharepoint, and Tableau. Success with this job would mean that you are experienced in both organizing and maintaining spreadsheets as well as visualizing data with Pivot Tables, charts, and graphs. Our team manages different aspects of Cisco's operations, and most of our team are working on multiple projects at once. These projects all require constant attention, and a lot of the work is time sensitive.

Your Impact:

We are looking for someone to drive day-to-day operations, partnering with internal leaders to define and deliver on the organizations business processes and deliverables. Manage the planning process for short- and long-term strategic planning. Manage business processes, systems and tools to support the organization. They will be responsible for tracking of and dashboard reporting key components of our team. Strategic planning & analysis, complex problem solving, ability to work in high-stress situations, virtual team leadership.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related technical fields with 5 years of experience in Project Management, Business Administration, or Data Analytics.
• Prior experience as a Project Manager and ability to handle a large workload comprising of many different projects, successfully managing communications from respective parties, and staying up to date on information.
• Prior experience working with external and Internal teams.
• Prior experience leading daily discussions with outside suppliers and internal leadership and ability to negotiate, follow-up, and execute decisions and plans that are beneficial to the growth of the team.

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior experience creating, organizing, and maintaining high level/visibility Excel spreadsheets and reporting.
• Prior experience identifying opportunities to improve team efficiency and effectiveness through automation.
• Prior experience prioritizing and managing across multiple, often time-sensitive initiatives.

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. Simply put - we power the future.

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.