Network Program Director

Why is Ericsson a good 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.

Our Exciting Opportunity:

We are now looking for a Network Program Director (NPD) that effectively and efficiently manages the Contract fulfilment including the delivery of products and services. In this role you will create insights and trends to identify opportunities for closer commercial relationships with our customers. Also, you will
assume the Contract Fulfilment Responsible (CFR) to ensure continuity and alignment of contract terms defined during pre-sales through the program delivery and customer acceptance and perform the role of FAS Sponsor from the creation of the fulfilment assignment (FAS) to closure.

You will:

- Act as Pre-Sales CFR for NW contracts.
- Be responsible for defining the Network contract execution strategy and associated risk exposure for a specific opportunity.
- Take the lead for the Program execution strategy and associated risk exposure including E+OH Sand Security issues associated with the engagement.
- Manage Customer Relationship being main interface and escalation point for all service delivery activities towards the customer (internally and externally) either on FAS or Program level.
- Drive business practices ensuring compliance to; group, legal and financial directives, global and local Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (E+OHS), information and product security and privacy, using relevant processes and tools.

To be successful in the role you must have:

- Education: a Master's Degree in relevant field.
- Multi-year international experience in Telecom, Networks and Business Management in highly complex.
- Financial acumen skills
- Knowledge and experience working with OHS
- EMS Knowledge and skills
- Security Knowledge and skills

Additional Requirements:

- Ericsson Portfolio knowledge
- Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Planning and organizing skills
- Persuading and influencing

What´s in it for you?

Here at Ericsson, our culture is built on over a century of courageous decisions. With us, you will no longer be dreaming of what the future holds – you will be redefining it. You won’t develop for the status quo but will build what replaces it. Joining us is a way to move your career in any direction you want; with hundreds of career opportunities in locations all over the world, in a place where co-creation and collaboration are embedded into the walls. You will find yourself in a speak-up environment where empathy and humanness serve as cornerstones for how we work, and where work-life balance is a priority. Welcome to an inclusive, global company where your opportunity to make an impact is endless.

What happens once you apply?
To prepare yourself for next steps, please explore here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/careers/job-opportunities/hiring-process

If you have any questions, please contact the recruiter: Kristina Lundqvist, kristina.lundqvist@ericsson.com

Please send in your application in English as soon as possible since the process is ongoing.
Do you believe that an organization fostering an environment of cooperation and collaboration to execute with speed creates better business value? Do you value a culture of humanness, where fact based decisions are important and our people are encouraged to speak up? Do you believe that diverse, inclusive teams drive performance and innovation? At Ericsson, we do.
We provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, religion, political opinion, nationality, ethnic background, social origin, social status, indigenous status, disability, age, union membership or employee representation and any other characteristic protected by local law or Ericsson’s Code of Business Ethics.

Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) ||
Primary Recruiter: Kristina Lundqvist