Business Analysis Manager, Planning & Operations

Application window expected to close on November 15, 2024.

What You'll Do

As a Business Analysis Manager, you will be a key player in the Security and Collaboration Strategy and Planning Operations team. Your role will involve defining, articulating, and prioritizing the work needed to drive design across various products and teams, ensuring we build the best solutions most efficiently. You'll have the exciting opportunity to work with innovative technologies and microservices in a dynamic and agile environment. Our portfolio of products uses a wide range of technologies and services, from Java and JavaScript to back-end technologies like Kafka queues and Snowflake Databases. This role will lead the entire product life cycle, including requirement analysis, architecture design, code implementation, functional and performance testing, deployment, and support. Working with a small scrum team, you'll apply agile development practices to deliver on this work.

Who'll You'll Work With

Our mission is to enable Business Collaboration capabilities for employees, our customers & partners and, in parallel, deliver Software Platforms that drive simplification, automation, and intelligence for CRM processes. To help us accomplish this, you'll be at the forefront of driving operational and GTM process requirements to support SaaS business operations across multiple business groups within our organization. As a trusted partner working closely with key decision makers, you will lead process improvement initiatives and discuss process alternatives to arrive at standard methodologies. Cross collaboration will be essential in formulating a strategy to scale these operations across our team.

Who You Are

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Drive capability co-design sessions, assess requirements, and evaluate IT solutions on quality, then influence delivery options to include facilitating sessions with end-users, detailing requirements and user stories.
• Align with business architecture business rules, policies, critical business decisions, cross-program dependencies, and high-level solution designs.
• Evaluate solutions in the light of operational impacts and influence to improve the quality of capability delivery and partner experience.
• Support testing strategy and plan, write test scenarios (SIT/UAT), and Go/No-Go decisions.
• Implement and improve SAAS business processes end-to-end.
• Serve as the conduit to the DevOps team and collaborate with Sales Operations
• Identify, document, and communicate process changes to users
• Apply Agile methodologies, working in sprints

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience or Master's degree with 3+ years of experience or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience using Salesforce for demand generation, lead and opportunity lifecycles, account and campaign management
• 5+ years of experience translating requirements using collaboration and visualization tools
• 2+ year of experience using marketing automation tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in Aha and JIRA
• Experience using dashboards/BI tools such as Tableau to build reports
• Salesforce certifications
• Scrum Master certification
• Familiarity with Cisco technologies
• Experience working with sales teams
• Excellent documentation skills
• Excellent planning, interpersonal, and prioritization skills
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we're committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco