Strategic Sourcing Manager (372303)

Are you looking for an opportunity to be part of the team that makes 5G happen around the globe? We are starting to see commercial 5G networks going live, IoT is here and there has never been a better time for you to make your mark!
Hardware Sourcing within Ericsson Group Sourcing is responsible for sourcing of hardware products and solutions within Ericsson. We are responsible to manage and secure a world class hardware supplier base enabling our Ericsson Radio System product solutions for 4G and the ongoing transformation into 5G.
We are now recruiting a hardworking and experienced candidate that will join our skilled team of eight sourcing professionals in Gothenburg. The distributed team is consisting of approximately 150 experienced sourcing professionals located in Stockholm, Beijing and Gothenburg.
If you want to contribute to the evolution of 5G and be part of one of the most exciting and demanding businesses within Ericsson - this is the job for you!
Job Description:
As a sourcing professional in our organization you will work with:
Supplier Relationship Management; Ericsson representative towards suppliers owning the interface and communication with suppliers.
Strategic Sourcing Management; commercial responsible for a subset of the sourced component portfolio.
Category Management; owning and driving sourcing strategies across wide commodities within the company.
You will be representing Ericsson towards international world leading companies.
Commercial negotiations, supplier base evaluations, supplier interaction, product development involvement and evaluating technical solutions are examples of vital activities.
Business intelligence, financial and category analysis is important tools in the daily operations to understand the future market trends.
Traveling is required, domestic and abroad.

General requirements:
University degree in Engineering with management focus, or equivalent in Economics with technical knowledge or interest.
Additional competences:
We believe the successful candidate has a genuine interest in technical sourcing and bring experiences from working in a strategic role in a big company.
We value good interpersonal skills and the ability to build networks. In addition to this we believe you enjoy creating results together with others as well as by yourself. You possess analytical skills, a strategic approach and a readiness to take ownership.
The job involves international contacts so you must be fluent in English.
Location for this role: Göteborg, Sweden
Please send in you application in English as soon as possible, since the process is ongoing.
Kindly note that we cannot process appplications sent via email.
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 close to 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 favorite 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. Often, 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.
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