Business Development Manager

Meet the Team

In this role you will work at the center of the Cisco 360 Partner Program. You will collaborate extensively with cross-functional leadership, including Global Partner Sales, regional partner organizations, engineering, product management, finance, and operations. This team is tasked with future-proofing our global partner ecosystem through data-driven strategy and collaborative governance.

Your Impact

You will own the end-to-end strategy, execution, and optimization of the PVI (Partner Value Index). Your contributions will include:

• Strategic Evolution: Lead the operationalization of PVI to reward partner competency, performance, and lifecycle value, ensuring it remains aligned with Cisco’s portfolio priorities.
• Program Scalability: Build a sustainable operating model that integrates incentive planning (CPI) and creates clear pathways for diverse partner motions (Build, Advise, Sell, Managed).
• Transformation & AI: Leverage AI tools to drive operational efficiency and actionable insights while leading the global deployment and adoption of program changes across internal and external stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Orchestrate alignment across a complex global network, resolving competing priorities and securing executive decisions to ensure the PVI reflects evolving market needs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Industry Expertise: Deep knowledge of enterprise networking, security, collaboration, and cloud infrastructure markets, with a comprehensive understanding of global channel ecosystems (VARs, SIs, MSPs, and Distributors).
• Executive Presence: Exceptional communication and negotiation skills with a proven ability to influence C-level stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Analytical Leadership: Advanced proficiency in data-driven decision-making and the ability to articulate innovative thought leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree plus 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in business development, enterprise technology, channel management, finance, or go-to-market strategy preferred.
• Cisco Context: Familiarity with Cisco’s partner ecosystem, portfolio strategy, and the specific mechanics of the Cisco 360 Partner Program.
• Change Management: Experience managing large, dispersed teams through complex, transformational business shifts.

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.