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Meet the Team
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Technical Project Manager to lead a Scrum Team within Supply Chain IT. As the Scrum Master in this role you will be facilitating agile ceremonies, mitigating blockers, and ensuring the team delivers high-quality solutions that advance our supply chain operations. You will be a key partner in fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and high performance.
As the Scrum Master, you will serve as the heartbeat of our agile process. You will guide the team through complex technical challenges, manage project timelines, and ensure alignment with our broader Supply Chain IT objectives. Your leadership will directly influence our ability to deliver scalable, efficient, and reliable integrations that power our business.
Your Impact
A brief description of the role, also include what the employee would do and what makes this role exciting:
You will lead Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives. As the scrum master you will track and report on team velocity, sprint progress, and overall project health to provide visibility to leadership. We expect our scrum master’s to act as a dedicated advocate for the team, removing impediments and shielding members from external distractions to maintain focus. You will also partner with Product Owners to refine the product backlog and ensure clear, actionable prioritization. Collaboration with cross-functional partners to ensure alignment on project goals, dependencies, and deliverables is a must.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in technical project management or a related discipline.
- Demonstratable experience in supply chain operations
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master within a software development environment.
- Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Manufacturing, B2B integrations, or Procurement within the supply chain environment is considered a significant advantage.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is preferred but not required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Collaborates with cross-functional technical and business teams to ensure seamless integration and operation of cloud-based applications and services
- Design and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability
- Experienced in lifecycle management, upgrades, and patching of DB and Compute.
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.
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Skills Required
- Minimum five years of experience in technical project management or a related discipline.
- Demonstrable experience in supply chain operations.
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master within a software development environment.
- Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Experience with manufacturing, B2B integrations, or procurement within a supply chain environment.
- Certified Scrum Master certification.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional technical and business teams on cloud-based applications and services.
- Experience designing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Experience with database and compute lifecycle management, upgrades, and patching.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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