Business Analyst - Supply Chain

Role Overview: Business Analyst Cisco’s Global Supplier Management (GSM) organization is a highly experienced, cross-functional team that drives sourcing and costing processes, supports supply continuity, and develops commodity strategies across a broad portfolio of Cisco products. The team works closely with component suppliers to improve innovation, productivity, and operational efficiency.

As a Business Analyst on the Cost Operations team, you will play a key role in supporting end-to-end cost processes and enabling commodity teams to make smarter, faster business decisions through analytics, process discipline, and digital transformation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support cost processes through supplier RFQ management, including costing and quoting activities for assigned commodities, quote analysis, and quote closure support
• Use GenAI tools and automation to extract data from supplier quotes, summarize component terms, and help digitize workflows
• Perform cost and sourcing analytics, including scenario planning, variance analysis, and data-driven insights to identify gaps and address business challenges
• Apply predictive and analytical methods to anticipate pricing trends and potential supply risks within the quote cycle
• Build and maintain actionable dashboards in Power BI or Tableau to track cost operations metrics for senior leadership
• Partner closely with commodity managers, supply chain teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners across a global environment

Minimum Qualifications

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