Date: Oct 9, 2018

Job Summary

We are now looking for a Strategic Sourcing Manager with Digital Services background, to strengthen Ericsson’s competitive position by maximizing supplier value, proactively managing business risks and contributing to the creation of value for our Customer.

You will be accountable for evaluating, qualifying and selecting suppliers for the external purchase and licensing of all products and services: 1) to be delivered to Customers as part of or as an Ericsson product or service and 2) for internal use within Ericsson.

Responsibilities

• You will lead, prepare & execute the RFx process
• You will evaluate and select suppliers
• You will conduct supplier negotiation
• You will ensure supplier agreement implementation
• You will contribute to the long-term business

Key Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s in engineering, Management or Marketing
• Min years of experience: 3-5 years in IT procurement, Project Management experience in IT/Telco and/or Commercial Roles in IT.
• Domain experience: Sourcing, Supply, IT Procurement, Ericsson solutions knowledge and deep understanding of IT Market is preferable.
• Sourcing Practice, Process & Strategy Knowledge
• Change & Improvement Management Skills
• Commercial Acumen & Skills
• Financial Acumen & Skills
• Local Laws & Regulations Knowledge

Why is Ericsson a great place to work?

Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency, find new revenue streams, and create new user experiences. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world ensuring our solutions – and our customers – are at the forefront of innovation. We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. With over 100,000 employees and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and service leadership. 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over an Ericsson network. And, our Technology for Good and Connect to Learn programs include creating technology that makes it easier to save lives, feed societies, bring technology to emerging markets and connectivity to remote areas, and grow businesses and prosperity.

At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big and navigate their career, on a global scale. We create technology that helps others, from helping people enjoy their favourite content to helping people recover from natural disasters by enabling better communications between rescue workers. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world, creating new connections, new possibilities, and new capabilities. We find that Ericsson is at its best when we bring together the diverse skills of our people. Working across business areas, across cultures, across geographical borders, across technical disciplines. More often than not, across ground-breaking solutions. Next generation technology can be staggeringly complex. But the simpler it is to use; the more people benefit from it. Join us and help build technology that makes it simple to connect with information, business, societies, and each other.