Strategy & Planning Manager (Hybrid)

This role is hybrid with a balance between onsite and remote work. Do you have the following skills, experience and drive to succeed in this role Find out below. Meet the Team: As a member of the Strategy and Operation team at Splunk, you will help to develop a global business operational rhythm and drive accountability on the product delivery. You will work alongside leaders and teammates to drive sophisticated, multi-functional efforts that position the company for continued high growth. You will help frame the long-term product vision and translating it into actionable plans, working with product and engineering leaders, through market research, and strategic decision-making. As a Strategy & Planning Manager your key responsibilities include aligning teams, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and ensuring the product aligns with business goals and customer needs. The role requires strong analytical skills to interpret data, excellent communication to present strategy, and the ability to think strategically about market positioning, pricing, and growth opportunities. The individual has a solid bent on operational excellence to make sure the processes are aligned to the overall product strategy. You enjoy understanding Splunk products, the problems it solves for customers, analyzing data, and problems - working with teams to identify and test business hypotheses, ultimately you will improve how Splunk operates and how we work together. If you are inspired by the opportunity to build the right strategies to take our business to the next level, evolving our capabilities and setting our customers and people up for success - then this role is for you Your Impact: Collaborate with product leaders to develop and maintain the long-term product vision and strategy, including defining the product roadmap and translating objectives into actionable plans. Understand the company’s operating model and commercial objectives and create a Bottoms up SAM/SOM analysis based on Customer and market intelligence. Leverage industry best practices, policies, procedures, and methodologies to establish excellence and ensure objectives are met. Familiarity with product development processes, with the ability to understand product capabilities and tradeoffs required. Act as a central point of contact, working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Product Marketing, COP development, and other teams to ensure alignment and successful execution of the strategy. Analyze data from various sources (e.g., user surveys, analytics, focus groups) to identify patterns, draw conclusions, and support strategic recommendations. Analyze existing data sources Compose a formal set of KPIs to enable business stakeholders’ decision making. Work with Product marketing to help define and shape how the product is positioned in the market, including pricing and distribution strategies, and help articulate the core product story to internal and external audiences. Deep understanding of the industry, competitive landscape, and customer needs. Build and optimize product-focused processes to streamline workflows and enhance the overall efficiency of the product organization. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience. Demonstrated experience in product strategy, frameworks and operations. Proficiency in data analysis for extracting actionable insights from complex datasets. Familiarity with product development processes, including understanding product capabilities and tradeoffs. Experience working on platform strategy, including price packaging and pricing of platform-type technologies, and a deep understanding of how platforms function. Preferred Qualifications: Master of Business Administration (MBA). Prior experience in management consulting. Demonstrated strategic thinking with a broad, long‑term view of the market and product lifecycle. Excellent written and verbal communication skills for articulating complex ideas to diverse audiences. Experience with bottom‑up SAM/SOM analysis Proven ability to influence and guide cross‑functional teams towards shared business outcomes. Prior experience in product strategy within platform companies Experience with change management and transformation. 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 $179,900.00 to $242,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. 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: $199,200.00 - $317,600.00 Non‑Metro New York state & Washington state: $179,900.00 - $291,700.00 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. Cisco is an Aff… Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. xrczosw Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.