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Cisco Business Architect - Product Data and Life Cycle Management in San Jose, California
WHAT YOU'LL DO
As the Business Architect - Product Data and Lifecycle Management you will leverage your prior NPI, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and product master data experience, along with your successful track record implementing enterprise solutions, to design, develop, implement and transform the Product Data and Product Lifecycle processes for the Cisco Components Business. The Component Business start-up like environment will empower and allow you to demonstrate your strengths as a leader with vision. You will thrive in an environment that allows you to roll up your sleeves to enable the business, while working and leveraging relationships across all functions of the business
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Lead Component Business Model product data and product lifecycle management strategic priorities
Product Lifecycle Process Development & Deliverables Management: Build robust policies, procedures across CBM business units and establish framework for product cross-functional core teams to guide stages of development and operations.
Design blueprint to build a scaled CBM PLM system to centralize and harmonize multi-tenant product data into a common platform while ensuring seamless retirement strategy for existing platforms.
Deploy best practices and design decisions around topics such as Item number policy, revision & versioning policy, taxonomy and attribution, change management, governance and stewardship.
Lead Product Data Hub Daily Operations: RAID management (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions), Lead product data working councils, overall product data governance, guide product and item data stewards, handle Oracle PD/PDH prioritization of enhancements & changes, lead Role Administration & Management, and supervise end to end operations across systems
Continuous improvement of existing PLM configuration, business processes and harmonization
Manage Product Data Organizational Change Management including communications, training, impact assessment, stakeholder management.
Build cross-functional, cross business unit relationships to help influence changes to support the component business Cisco wide.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
The Business Architect - Product Data and Lifecycle Management role is very cross functional. You will work closely with Supply Chain Transformation, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Suppliers, Customers and Cisco IT. Additionally, the Product Data Management lead will regularly inform and seek the support from the Component Central and Senior Business Unit executives.
WHO YOU ARE
You are a hands-on Supply Chain professional with prior experience leading Product Data and Product Lifecyle transformation projects.
Prior work experience implementing new products and managing products throughout the lifecycle in an Engineering or Operations role
Prior experience integrating multiple distinct businesses into one common business solution and process set.
You excel at developing and implementing business processes, metrics, and continuous improvement roadmaps.
A natural leader who loves to manage large programs and people.
Ambitious, creative, self-starter
Experience with Oracle Fusion PD and PDH a plus.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
BA/BS Degree or equivalent work experience
7+ years Product Lifecycle management experience
Full lifecycle PLM enterprise application implementation experience
Hands on experience with manufacturing product structure (Items, BOM’s, Routings)
Proven track record of building lifecycle business processes and procedures from ground up
Experience leading system design, integration, and deployment in a complex, integrated environment
Knowledge of change management, BOM management, CAD, ERP, PLM, MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems)
Excellent communication, leadership, and presentation skills. Capable of working and influencing across multiple functions to establish the required alignment to set up and sustain a robust model for configuration and control.
Understanding of end-to-end operations business architectures
You are results oriented, ambitious, flexible, and able to adapt in a fast-paced, changing environment.
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).
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