Full-Time
Senior People Consultant
People & Communities
Posted on 8/8/2025
Cisco
10,001+ employees
Networking hardware, security software, collaboration services
No salary listed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience working with sales and technology teams would be preferred.
Cisco designs and sells networking hardware, software, and services that help organizations connect, protect, and manage data. Its products include networking gear, security solutions, cloud services, and collaboration tools like Webex to support hybrid work. Cisco differentiates itself with a broad, integrated stack—routing and switching, security, cloud, and collaboration—that works together at scale. Its goal is to help customers securely connect people, devices, and applications, enabling reliable communication and digital transformation across enterprises of all sizes.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, California
Founded
1984
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Networking revenues surged 21% YoY to $8.29 billion in Q2 FY2026 from AI infrastructure demand.
- Six consecutive quarters of 20%+ networking orders driven by Wi-Fi 7 and campus upgrades.
- JPMorgan raised price target to $96 citing AI growth in servers, switches, and optics.
What critics are saying
- Arista erodes Cisco's share in high-performance Ethernet switches for AI data centers within 12 months.
- HPE's Juniper acquisition undercuts Cisco's SASE offerings, accelerating defections in 6 months.
- BWG Global downgrade reveals weakening demand for Cisco's legacy campus gear in 3 months.
What makes Cisco unique
- Cisco's $28 billion Splunk acquisition integrates data analytics with ThousandEyes for $31.4 billion ARR.
- Cisco open-sourced AI-BOM tool tracking 150 models to combat shadow AI security risks.
- Cisco's Universal Quantum Switch connects incompatible quantum systems at room temperature with <4% degradation.
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