Director, Collaboration Strategy, Planning, & Operations

The application window is expected to close on: June 18th, 2025

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

Our Global Specialists is a dynamic organization, where innovation and technology come together to deliver customer outcomes. We need a world class Sales Planning & Operations leader who can design that plan to make our sales teams do just that. We are seeking a best-in-class Director, Collaboration SP&O professional to lead our team.

You will lead & manage a team, shape strategy, build & implement operational plans, drive key initiatives that translate into sales growth in partnership with the Sales Leadership Team and cross functional partners.

• Conduct strategic, data-driven analyses to inform new GTM models that support growth and scale of the global business.
• Leverage GTM growth levers against market share to instrument growth driven programs in the business.
• Lead the global or/and regional sales plan, target setting, coverage models, capacity, segmentation to drive GTM strategy, growth, and productivity.
• Assess how best to spend a $1 of coverage against what customers, regions, products to enhance output, including key strategic questions around renewals, customer success, and field roles.
• Map sales motions to best serve our customers, creating an enablement journey to ensure they have the capabilities to be succeed.
• Design and deliver a compensation plan to best meet financial objectives.
• Tell the business story in both what we do and what we will do to senior executives across product business unit and executive leadership teams.
• Proactively interact with cross-functional teams to better understand strengths and opportunities in the business, while aligning to action.
• Lead a direct (first and second line) & matrixed team with a focus on priorities, empowerment, and accountability to achieve results; develop and grow your team through exposure, coaching and visibility; recognize and reward.

• 5+ years' experience in a combination of sales strategy, operations, or management consulting.
• Collaboration domain experience is required.
• Proven people leadership experience is required.
• Minimum BA/BS; MBA a plus.

• SaaS revenue operations experience preferred.
• Demonstrable experience partnering with executive sales leaders to achieve growth targets.
• Extensive experience working directly with Executive leadership and steering Executive alignment across multiple functional areas.
• Ability to motivate and lead cross-functional teams by example, even when challenges are extremely complex, and solutions are unclear.
• Consistent track record in cross-functional collaboration, establishing relationships and driving successful outcomes in a matrixed environment.
• Strong communications & influencing skills, experience speaking publicly & working with partners at all levels, producing exec level content and conducting executive conversations.
• Strong in framing & structuring business problems, prioritizing the effort, conducting complex quantitative and qualitative analysis, building an exec level story complete with recommendations.
• A learn it all with a growth mindset. Curious and flexible, you enjoy variety and are willing to tackle different roles/responsibilities as business needs evolve.
• You love a challenge, you've always got your teammate's ask, and you're inspired working with others to achieve success.
• Fail forward attitude, leads as a natural innovator in the face of change and adversity.
• Data expert that is able to see the heart of the results or opportunities to drive action.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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.

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