People & Communities : People Partner

What You'll Do

Partner with Business & Communities to evangelise the P&C strategy. Ensure alignment of the people strategy with their overall business strategy, provide strategic consulting, drive adoption, ensure a positive employee experience, and ensure scale across communities.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Consulting & Trusted Advisor

Build and maintain strategic relationships with the communities we serve, aiming to understand its members, the community’s goals, challenges and user experience Advocate for and provide input to the development of global P&C priorities based on community context, emerging insights and needs Provide strategic consulting to connect community’s imperatives and their short and long-term people plans. Develop people plans which meet communities needs whilst drawing on scaled solutions and offerings and incorporate global priorities Co-create and track progress and success measures of people plans, championing adoption, linking dependences and driving business impact against key priorities such as Conscious Leaders & Teams and Inclusion. Act as coach, trusted advisor and P&C champion to community leaders/leadership groups to help drive adoption and delivery of people plans, build capability and evangelize strategic goals

Deep Understanding and Insights

Actively seek to capture, synthesise and refresh both external and internal insights about the community and their ecosystem Leverage insights and data to build deep understanding of business, market, and community trends and future focused needs Drive informed people decision-making for each community by linking data and analytics Understand, utilize and represent P&C analytics and insights with community groups through business forums and success scorecards

Transformation Enablement and Change

Partner to define and drive transformative change to support each community’s people plans and strategic imperative such as I&C and Conscious Culture Represent the community's voice to guide cross-community transformations Represent Cisco P&C within communities and external ecosystem in relevant markets and for relevant topic areas

Advocacy and Portfolio Adoption

Help the community embrace, use and implement relevant solutions across the P&C portfolio Lead regular reviews and provide portfolio feedback and insights to Growth, Solutions and People Experience team . Provide the “homebase” leadership support for all P&C team members within the extended team, leading events and activities to drive One P&C team connections and culture.

Requirements

15 + years  of proven experience as an HR Business Partner or similar role. Experience working with sales and technology teams would be preferred. Proven experience working in agile and matrix environments. Significant experience working with global HR teams to develop and implement transformative organizational initiatives. Strong experience in executive-level interactions. Comprehensive understanding of human resources principles, practices, and regulations and its impact on business Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to deal with ambiguity, problem-solving and decision-making abilities will be a key requirement. Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.

Why You'll Love 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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.