Marketing Manager - Strategy, Planning and Operations

Cisco's Global Marketing organization is dedicated to connecting customers, partners, and communities with transformative technology solutions. Within Strategy, Planning & Operations (SPO), our team serves as the strategic growth and execution engine for Cisco Marketing leadership. We act as trusted advisors and operational champions, translating high-level marketing vision into structured program roadmaps, operational governance, and predictable business outcomes. Our culture values autonomy, operational excellence, creative problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration across a distributed nationwide team.

As a Marketing Manager within Strategy, Planning & Operations, you will serve as a strategic project and program manager dedicated to supporting Cisco's Partner Marketing leadership team. You will lead end-to-end program governance, drive partner development fund allocation, build operational dashboards, and facilitate executive business rhythms. Working across a highly matrixed organization, you will help translate strategic priorities into measurable business outcomes while identifying opportunities to improve operational effectiveness.

Key responsibilities include:

• Program & Project Leadership: Define, plan, and govern complex cross-functional marketing programs from inception through delivery, managing schedules, scope, resource interdependencies, and stakeholder alignment.
• Partner Development Fund Orchestration: Manage the programmatic allocation, milestone tracking, and Proof of Performance (PoP) governance for multi-million-dollar partner co-marketing initiatives, including strategic alliance programs across Cisco and global technology partners.
• Operational Dashboards & Analytics: Collaborate with Marketing Operations (MOps) and data teams to architect, deploy, and maintain real-time performance dashboards, providing leadership with actionable visibility into program impact, pipeline attribution, and operational health.
• Executive Business Reviews & Cadences: Drive the coordination, data consolidation, and executive storytelling for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs/QBOs) and leadership staff meetings.
• Cross-Functional Matrix Alignment: Partner closely with Vice Presidents, Directors, Campaign Managers, Investment Operations, and Field Marketing leaders to resolve execution roadblocks and ensure seamless program delivery.
• Continuous Process Optimization & AI Enablement: Identify workflow bottlenecks and opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and emerging technologies to eliminate manual tasks, streamline reporting, improve operational efficiency, and standardize program management processes across Partner Marketing and SPO.

• 7+ years of professional experience in project management, program management, business operations, or strategy and planning within large, matrixed organizations.
• Experience independently managing end-to-end project schedules, scope definitions, resource plans, and cross-functional deliverables.
• Experience with data analysis, dashboard development, business reporting, and translating complex data into executive-level presentations.
• Hands-on experience with project management and collaboration platforms such as Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Monday.com, or Microsoft Project, along with spreadsheet and data modeling tools.
• Experience developing and delivering business updates, presentations, or operational reports to Director- and Vice President-level stakeholders.

• Experience working in marketing operations, partner marketing, alliance co-marketing funds, or corporate strategy.
• Experience leveraging AI-powered tools, generative AI, or workflow automation to improve business processes, increase operational efficiency, enhance reporting, or support program and project management activities.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile/Scrum Master, or equivalent project/program management certification.
• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs within technology, healthcare, enterprise manufacturing, or management consulting environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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. 

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.