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The CDA PMO for Europe North provides operational support to an assigned set of CDA programs, their teams, and the sub-regional leaders. The role reports to the CDA Lead for BeNeLux (3 of the 5 currently assigned programs) and supports with financial, program, and project management adhering to compliance; detailed in the 'CDA Standard Operating Procedures' (SOPs). The role is also currently assigned to the programs in Switzerland and Austria.
Your Impact
Operational CDA Programme Support including:
- Compliant operations, audit-ready documentation and reporting, financial management, risk management, procurement planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting, bookings reconciliation, project lifecycle monitoring.
- Implementing and enforcing programme and project governance standards, processes, and best practices to ensure efficient, compliant project execution.
Compliant Operations:
- Be the 1st line of protection against non-compliant operations, i.e., anything that goes against any Cisco Policy or CDA's SOPs.
- Implement and enforce project governance and reporting standards, consistent processes, and best practices to ensure compliant investments and project execution and reporting.
- Report compliance issues and risks to CDA Lead and Sub-Regional Lead in parallel.
- Support audits taking place in assigned countries.
Audit Ready Documentation and Reporting:
- Maintain an audit-ready SharePoint archive of program and project-level documentation.
- Own the CDA Budget Tracker for each country, always keep it up to date as the investment plan develops and reconcile actual opex data each quarter.
- Adopt the DIO Power App and Dashboard as the single source of truth. Use it in meetings, reviews, etc., to encourage local teams to adopt it.
- Ensure every opportunity that is flagged as CDA in SFDC is authorized by sales and this can be evidenced in black and white if necessary.
- Ensure Project Closures and Retrospectives are run for all relevant projects including core project team and sub-regional lead.
- Monthly, ensure the DIO dashboard is up to date.
- Ensure the SFDC pipeline is up to date with all CDA opportunities/deals flagged.
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Risk Management:
- Identify, document, and communicate program and operations risks and issues to CDA Lead and Sub-Regional Lead as appropriate, be aware of relevant project risks reported by PMs/Vendors.
Financial Management:
- Planning: Support CDA Lead with quarterly and annual investment and bookings planning.
- Budget: Manage investment budget with CDA Lead and monitor actual investments. Communicate Investment Forecast and weekly reforecast to sub-regional lead.
- Run the Bookings Reconciliation process to maximize defensible RoI and monitor CDA Opportunity Pipeline to ensure it is accurate.
Procurement:
- Planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting.
- Full ownership and all related actions (raising PRs, cross charges, chasing PR approvals, authoring and checking SoWs, monitoring invoicing, managing aged POs).
Project Lifecycle Monitoring and Support:
- Monitor all projects to ensure they follow the CDA project lifecycle including but not limited to: business case submission in power app and approvals, procurement, project monitoring, accruals, opportunity flagging, replication, storytelling, retrospective, documented closure.
Support CDA Leads and Sub-Regional Managers:
- With regular reporting and strategy meetings including half-year reviews.
- Adhoc support.
- Review investment proposals or PEFs, chase approvals, and submit and manage project statuses in dashboard.
Minimum Qualifications
Professional Experience:
- Minimum of 3–5 years of experience in project or program management support, preferably within a large multinational technology organization.
Operational Governance:
- Demonstrated expertise in implementing project governance frameworks, audit compliance, and adherence to corporate standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Financial & Procurement Acumen:
- Proficient in budget management, financial forecasting, and end-to-end procurement processes, including Purchase Requisitions (PRs) and Statement of Work (SoW) management.
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Systems Proficiency:
- Advanced competency in project tracking tools (e.g., SharePoint, MS Excel, or proprietary dashboards) and CRM platforms such as Salesforce (SFDC) for pipeline and opportunity management.
Communication:
- Proven ability to manage stakeholders across multiple sub-regions and deliver reporting to senior leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
Cisco Internal Knowledge:
- Prior experience with Cisco-specific systems, including the Digital Impact Office (DIO) Power App, internal financial tools, and corporate compliance frameworks.
Strategic Alignment:
- Experience working within Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) or similar government-facing public sector initiatives.
Process Improvement:
- Proven track record of refining project lifecycles, reducing operational friction, and driving the adoption of new reporting technologies within diverse teams.
Collaboration:
- Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on coaching local teams on best practices for project execution and data hygiene.
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