Pricing Manager

Who you'll work with:

You will join the Global Partner Transformation team. You will assist in helping define Cisco's pricing strategy, operating models and developing necessary pricing tools to support Cisco's expanded routes to markets (Cloud Marketplace, Managed Services, Agency, etc.).

In this role, you will work cross-functionally with Global Sales and Segments teams, Geo-Regional Sales and Partner teams, Engineering Business Units, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, and other subject matter experts across Cisco.

As part of our successful team, we emphasize a culture of collaborating, working, winning and having fun together.

What you'll do:

• Develop a pricing operating model

• Understand how Cisco undertakes pricing today for established product/offers and nascent products/offers

• Undertake research to understand how other companies undertake pricing in multiple routes to market

• Identify key factors / strategic decisions that Cisco needs to consider when pricing any offer/product across different routes to market

• Propose several operating models (processes and organization structure) for how pricing could be done at Cisco, including the pros and cons of each

• Seek input from across the company and recommend a final operating model

• Define and develop Cisco's pricing principles and tools

• Analyze historical data and establish pricing principles that should adopted across the organizations

• Undertake research on various pricing methodologies / algorithms and how these might be considered for different types of offers

• Define what the pricing algorithm needs to do, in alignment with key Cisco collaborators

• Develop pricing tools that take inputs such as COGS, margins, competition's pricing, duration, target customer segment, routes to market, market growth, product/offer characteristics, regions etc. to estimate prices for each route to market

• Support the implementation of operating model and pricing tools

• Develop an implementation plan, working with senior GPO

• Complete components of the implementation plan, working with key team members

• Provide support and guidance to all relevant collaborators across Cisco

Who you are:

• You have strong analytical skills that enable you to work with large volumes of data and structure data in significant ways

• You are a problem solver and detail oriented enabling you to pick up on subtle insights, identify trends

• You are excited both by the high-level critical thinking, as well as in-the-trenches execution. You are comfortable with structuring ambiguity, turning it into a strategy, into an execution plan

• You have strong written and verbal communication, strong presence in front of senior executives, strong PowerPoint capability, the ability to collaborate across functional groups, including engineering, sales, services, marketing, HR, finance, operations.

• You are highly organized and have strong project management and follow-through skills. You have the ability to lead, prioritize and handle multiple tasks at the same time with teammates and peers.

• You are self-motivated, and have the desire to challenge the status quo.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree Business/Finance/Economics, Masters and/or MBA preferred

• 2+ years of experience in working in a pricing or undertaking financial modeling

• 7+ years of experience in product management and or consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy or finance preferred

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We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

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