Quality Manager (518025)

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Our Exciting Opportunity
Product Development Unit Radio drives the end-to-end research and development of Ericsson’s radio products and solutions. We are a global organization, within Development Unit Networks (DNEW), of approximately 3,000 engineers and developers collaborating across nine sites in Canada, China and Sweden to drive Ericsson’s strategy of securing our ongoing market leadership in radio, taking a leadership position in 5G.
Beginning of 2020 PDU Radio launched an organizational and operational transformation to facilitate the gradual, but the rapid change from radio boxes to functions and modular architectures. By improving our ways of working and organizational structure we will also:
• Enable key technologies faster and shorten product TTM
• Meet the portfolio demands more efficiently with better quality
• Plan and drive quality activities and make them stick.
• Strengthen product architecture and systemization
• Move from a too tactical setup towards a more strategic one
• Develop the competence and careers of our people through a targeted People Plan
Quality Assurance is a section in the Radio Product Sweden 1 sector that focuses on end-to-end radio product development for the site to enable efficient WoW and shorten TTM with high Quality.
The position is based in Kista and may require travel to other PDU Radio sites in Sweden, China and Canada.
You will
• Plan and lead quality activities during the development of Radio Product Sweden 1 portfolio at Kista site
• Secure quality plan is integrated into project plans
• Drive quality attitude and quality methods and tools training
• Visualize project quality status thru statistics and analysis of quality data
• Ensure findings and experiences are pushed towards global Quality forum as well as implement input from other sites
• Contribute in driving internal efficiency and cost-effectiveness via new or alignment of existing ways of working across all radio design and supply sites globally
• Ensure that all product Quality risks are lifted for active decision making, both during the development and maintenance phase
• Work with E2E quality management, early phases, supplier, robustness and reliability, production, product in the field
• Perform quality control and quality retrospective (closed-loop)


To be successful in the role you must have

• Several years of experience within R&D including customer interaction or Product Management
• Business and customer focus with an emphasis on seeing the big picture and making decisions
• Ability to inspire change that can make an impact across PDU radio & drive tangible change
• Understanding and ability to influence Radio external orgs (e.g. CES/supply/services) to change
• Ability to present on difficult topics in front of customers (can act on behalf of Radio senior management)
Leadership Requirements
• Several years of leadership experience
• Accountable thrive on accountability, overcoming challenges with a can-do attitude, motivated to surpass the expectations of customers
• Customer-focused - E2E focus, sees the big picture, can get things done no matter what, with agility and speed
• Ground-breaking thinker, desire and willingness to challenge the current ways of working
• Big-picture perspective, take a one Ericsson, one BNEW, one DNEW perspective collaborative attitude
• Fact-based timely decisions, not afraid to make tough decisions even when paradoxes are present, detail lacking or contradictory, and the stakes are high


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
Security clearance including references and relevant background screening will be conducted for final candidates.
Kindly note that we cannot process applications sent via email.
Please submit your application in English.
Location for this role: Stockholm, Sweden
Recruiter: Dorota Baran, dorota.baran@ericsson.com
Last day to apply: 2021/04/07



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