Sourcing Commodity Manager (HYBRID) San Jose, CA 2000917

Technical Sourcing Commodity Manager

The Cisco Global Supplier Management (GSM) team is seeking a motivated Technical Sourcing Commodity Manager for Interconnect commodity. You will join a highly impactful and dynamic organization collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers on early technology sensing and sourcing engagement across Cisco engineering teams. We work closely with hardware design engineering, component engineering, Manufacturing, and Suppliers to develop the next generation of Products including AI. We work with the industry leading Interconnects suppliers to develop the technology roadmaps, aligned to Cisco's Next Generation Technology development, delivering the cut edge technologies at price. We take a lot of pride in developing these next generation technologies for our customers!

As a Sourcing Commodity Manager, you will play a mission-critical role in enabling Cisco's next-generation and AI product roadmap. You'll partner closely with engineering and cross-functional teams to align supplier technologies with Cisco's strategy, drive sourcing decisions that balance innovation and cost, and ensure supplier readiness from early development through mass production. Your leadership will strengthen supply chain resilience, accelerate NPI execution, and unlock competitive advantage through supplier performance, technology enablement, and operational excellence.

Role Summary & Responsibilities

Technology & Cross-Functional Alignment

• Partner with Hardware Engineering, Product Operations, and Component Engineering to ensure suppliers align with Cisco's technology roadmap.
• Lead technology roadmap reviews with suppliers : gather proposals, analyze technical and commercial trade-offs, and recommend solutions to Business Units.
• Drive early supplier engagement for new products and ensure technical readiness.

Sourcing Strategy & Negotiation

Supplier Relationship & Issue Management

NPI Execution & Program Leadership

Value Engineering & Second Sourcing

Supply Chain Resilience

Business Reviews & Reporting

Operational Excellence

Additional responsibilities may be assigned based on evolving business priorities.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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. 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.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada :

The starting salary range posted for this position is $140,800.00 to $183,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows :