Critical Accounts Manager MBA (Intern) - United States

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Applications are accepted until further notice.

Meet the Team

When you work with Cisco's Customer Assurance Program (CAP), you'll join a highly empowered, collaborative team who is passionate about the customer and Cisco. You will be exposed to key executives, business leaders with vision, diverse problem solvers, and remarkable technical talent. You will establish relationships and develop an outstanding network across Cisco that gives you an outstanding perspective and support to get things done. All of this at the #1 ranked Best Company to Work For.

Your Impact

This role is core to CAP, the highest level of customer concern at Cisco. CAP Managers work cross-functionally to align the organization and resolve the most critical and sophisticated customer partner concerns. With sponsorship and support from executive leadership, CAP leads issue resolution, risk mitigation and is the ultimate owner of assuring customers' confidence in Cisco.

This is an opportunity to help address some of Cisco's toughest and most urgent challenges. The CAP team is looking for a collaborative, highly empowered, problem-solver who can be responsible for the resolution of technical, operational, organizational, and/or relationship challenges and drive substantial and long-term business improvements.

In this role you will partner with cross-functional, multi-cultural, and geographically dispersed teams to:

Analyze & define large and sophisticated business problems through team member engagement and data analysis.

Translate problem definition & analysis into a formal program structure.

Assemble and lead cross-functional teams. Hold the teams accountable to the development and delivery of action plans tailored to the specific business or customer challenge.

Align executive collaborators who may have varying business priorities.

Develop and deliver executive communications throughout the lifecycle of the program/project to ensure alignment across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an MBA program or a related graduate-level business program.

• Core MBA coursework in areas such as marketing, finance, strategy, and management

• Leadership experience in academic or professional settings

• Strong business, technical, and financial acumen

• Able to legally live and work in the country for which you're applying, without visa support or sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications

• The ability to define, develop, implement, and lead successful programs and turnaround plans.

• Experience in leading people through adventurous situations and navigating ambiguity.

• Mediation, arbitration, and negotiation skills to resolve conflicting views and set team direction.

• A proven track record to communicate openly and articulate plans in appropriate detail to executives, management, and individual contributors as well as customers and partners.

• Dynamic, upbeat, and enjoy working on new projects and with new teams.

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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.