Early Career Program Commercial Contract Manager

Ericsson AB

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About this opportunity:

Our Excellerate Global Leadership Program will give you an outstanding opportunity to engage with commercial projects at a strategic and global level, rising up to challenges and becoming and developing as a leader.
As part of the Excellerate program you are able to seize the initiative, operate with a consultative approach and collaborate on cross-technology solutions. The program will ensure you gain real practical insight into our business, our stakeholders and our customers including communication service providers (CSP) across the globe, and how we integrate end-to-end solutions to ensure everyone worldwide is connected.

Your journey within the Excellerate Program will start as a Commercial Contract Manager in Business Area Networks Sales & Commercial Management!
Ericsson’s Networks business is currently in an evolutionary phase after having secured 5G market leadership, with exciting and challenging trends in the industry such as radio virtualization and disaggregation, geopolitical dynamics, inflationary and supply chain pressures, and sustainability. All of this impacts what we need to achieve with our contracts so there is great potential to deliver concrete business value as part of the team.

What you will do:

* Work together with a team of experienced, senior Contract Managers to handle complex and key contractual questions about the Networks Portfolio.
* Contribute to the implementation of the Networks Contracting transformation blueprint, shaping the future of contracting at Ericsson.
* Engage in selected high-priority deals as a Business Area Contract Manager, ensuring lessons learned are captured and reused to evolve our contracting strategy.
* Support and participate in strengthening the Contract Management community across Ericsson, including building competence and awareness across the wider organization.


The skills you bring:

Joining the team will offer you an exciting journey through business and technology where you will learn, be able to challenge, take decisions and most importantly have a lot of fun! We believe you can challenge us in who we're looking for and believe you have an interest for business/commercial management combined with a technical interest in the communications industry. 
In addition, we believe you have: 
* A master’s degree in Industrial Engineering & Management, Law, Business Administration or equivalent 
* Experience in Contract Management, Law or Project Management. Sales and Commerical roles can also be a relevant background.
* Strong analytics skills, ability to extract relevant information from large source material
* Communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Understanding and awareness of Telecoms & Technology sectors and the role of Contracts in business
* A global attitude and willingness to relocate internationally, with a desire and ability to work in a multicultural environment 
* Keen interest to learn new things and to broaden experience 
* Ability to collaborate, engage with and mobilize the organization to secure results 
* Solid presentation and communication skills, and proficiency in English 


We can promise you a steep learning curve, exciting tasks and close collaboration as a valued member of a strategically important team. Be the one who did. Find out more about our Early Career program, what the alumni's are up to now and how the program can transform your career at www.ericsson.com/ecp