Executive Assistant, VP, Security Marketing, Security Business Group

What You'll Do

You will be extremely forward-thinking with a professional and approachable demeanor in all interactions; possess outstanding communication skills with all levels of staff, executives, customers, vendors; and good judgment.

• Calendar Management: Handles VP's calendar by prioritizing schedules and meetings. You may decide who gets on the principal's calendar, which meetings are attended, and who can attend in their place.

• Event Speaking Engagement Coordination: Handles a running list of VP's engagements and works closely with communications team to ensure content needs are understood and set in motion so VP is prepared for each engagement.

• Meeting Planning and Organization: Assists VP in planning and organizing meetings by being responsible for the assembling of the agenda, location, meeting technology based upon participant needs, and all other meeting logistics. May further prepare meeting briefing documents by taking and disseminating notes and formulating post meeting action item list.

• Travel Briefing Preparation: Build travel packs for international trips as well as large domestic events such as Cisco Live, etc. This work includes combining all event information in addition to coordinated logistics of travel and also customer/team asks.

• Correspondence/Approvals: Supports VP by acting as proxy for communications and approvals as authorized.
  
  Answers general questions as needed and refers routine matters to appropriate parties and follows up to ensure accurate completion. Takes the initiative to resolve issues within specified policies and guidelines and provides mentoring to administrative community members on problem solving. Figures out when executive action is required and supplies a recommendation where appropriate.

• Travel: Responsible for making travel arrangements for VP.
  
  Carefully considers and decides the optimum travel arrangements and itinerary for calendared meetings while handling Cisco expenses. Works diligently to go above and beyond, working with the airlines directly to accommodate Global Services benefits for upgrades whenever they are available.

• Special Projects: Provides analytical support to assist executives on special projects. Research issues, analyzes problems, compiles data, and prepares reports.

• Large Corporate Events: Prepare and brief itinerary as well as accompany VP for large Corporate Events such as GSX, where EA's are used for executive support.

• Confidentiality: Candidate will deal professionally with sensitive and confidential matters and materials.

Who You'll Work With

Join a close-knit, fast moving, seasoned and highly adaptable team with expertise in managed services, product management, and channel partner go-to-market. Our team's charter is to drive business growth by enabling our partners to deliver as-a-Service outcomes based on Cisco's technology solutions and consumption models.

We work across the Cisco organization to form coalitions that innovate, optimize and drive business results to the benefits of Cisco, our partners, and our mutual customers. We help to shape strategic facets of the technology portfolio, the consumption models and the business models associated with some of the industry's fastest moving trends. We are the vanguard of Cisco's transformation.

In this role, you'll support two of the organization's leaders. You will be responsible for working within Cisco to represent the team's needs to business units, sales organizations, finance, legal, corporate strategy, and marketing in support of the team.

And you will commonly collaborate with Cisco executives, their teams, and our partners to coordinate and plan with. As such, you will serve as an ambassador for our team and its remit.

Who You Are

You have experience providing support at the VP level. You take initiative, can handle a full desk with ease and thrive in a lively environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience in administrative environment. A minimum of 2 years of experience supporting a principal who was at the director level or above.

• Experience in planning meetings and coordinating travel.

• Expert level knowledge of Windows desktop computer applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Desired Skills

• Past work experience in the high-tech industry is desired, prior Cisco experience preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to connect with all levels of Executive/Senior staff and clients.

• Collaborative style, with excellent collaboration.

• Committed to improvement. Solves problems and makes decisions. Demonstrates leadership.

• Works in an organized and focused manner.

• Sophisticated desktop calendar management program experience.

• AA Degree preferred.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone.

How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists.

Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together.

We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward.

Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we're committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don't care.

Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool.

Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses.

Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday.

Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.