Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today, but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens. Get ready to join Cisco, where we prioritize a positive work environment and team support. Check out what we offer: Wellness: Keep fit and focused with our free mindfulness sessions and wellness programs. Support Services: We're here to support you with assistance for services such as childcare and elder care, along with counseling, personal support, access to expert medical opinions for complex health matters, private medical care and life insurance. Work-Life Benefits: We've got perks to simplify your life, including Meal, Childcare, Workers Council Perks or Transportation benefits. Time Off: Take advantage of 25 Vacation days + WTR / RTT days, Seniority Days, Child/Parent sick time off, global Days for Me (D4M), birthday day off, and Emergency Time Off to maintain a healthy balance. Volunteering: Make an impact with 10 paid Time2Give days to support your favorite causes. Rewards: Enjoy stock discounts, private pension plan, profit sharing ("participacion") monetary recognition for great work, and referral bonuses. Professional Growth: Boost your career with our extensive training and development opportunities. Cisco is more than a company—it's a place where your career can thrive in an exciting and fulfilling environment. We look forward to having you with us! What you'll do Are you ready to be at the heart of Cisco’s strategic initiatives? As an Executive Assistant supporting our Vice President of Strategy Planning and Directors of Business Development, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of high-level activities within our Strategy, Incubation, and Applications organization. Your contributions will directly impact the success of Cisco’s corporate strategy and alliances. In this dynamic role, you will: Calendar Management: Manage the VP’s and Directors’ calendars, prioritizing schedules and meetings. You will have the autonomy to decide who gets on their calendars, which meetings are attended, and who can attend in their place. Meeting Planning and Organization: Take ownership of planning and organizing meetings, including assembling agendas, coordinating locations and technology, and managing all logistics. Prepare briefing documents, take notes, and formulate post-meeting action item lists. Correspondence/Approvals: Act as a proxy for communications and approvals as authorized. Answer general questions and refer routine matters to appropriate parties, ensuring accurate disposition. Travel Arrangements: Arrange travel for the team, considering optimal travel plans and managing Cisco expenses. Special Projects: Provide analytical support on special projects. Research issues, analyze problems, compile data, and prepare reports. You will become a core member of the team, attending monthly staff meetings and quarterly all-team meetings. Your work will often be of a critical and confidential nature, collaborating with executive assistants and executives across Cisco. Who you'll work with Join Cisco’s Strategy, Incubation, and Applications organization, where the Cisco Strategy and Alliances team plays a pivotal role in defining and advancing Cisco’s corporate strategy. You will support a Vice President of Strategy Planning and two Directors of Business Development, and partner with a Senior Director of Strategic Alliances and two Directors of Strategic Alliances. This role will give you broad exposure across all of Cisco, engaging frequently with Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team and Board Members. Our minimum qualifications for this role 4+ years of experience in an administrative environment, with 2+ years supporting a Director level or above. Exceptional attention to detail and the maturity to handle confidential information. Advanced knowledge of Mac/Windows desktop applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Our preferred qualifications Experience in the high-tech industry, with prior Cisco experience preferred. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and French. Collaborative style with excellent teamwork. Proactive problem-solving skills and decision-making ability. Organized and disciplined work approach. Advanced experience with desktop calendar management programs. 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 exciting 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 hearts (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? 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