Site Service Sourcing Category Manager Lead at Ericsson

Job Description

Date: Oct 20, 2018

Job Summary:

We are now looking for a Site Services Sourcing Category Lead (Networks and Managed Service) - within the Networks sourcing MMEA organization. In this role, your contributions will be to develop, and implement Category Strategy, Sourcing strategy and methodologies, Business and supplier engagement models, Cost Reduction Targets and Key performance indicators (KPIs), maximizing supplier value, proactively managing business risks and contributing to the creation of value for the Customer and secure a Category Supplier base that supports Ericsson Service Area business model and service needs. By doing so, you are in charge of steering business awards to PSL suppliers, regulate risk, cost and demands, whilst securing quality and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• You will develop, implement and drive Category Strategy for the category
• Administer supplier base and supplier classification
• Create cost effective category solutions and business models for the category
• You will optimize Site Services category performance
• You will identify and Perform business intelligence and benchmark for the category
• You will drive competence management of the SSM team
• Conduct resource management and distribute work load to SSMs
• And you will ensure execution of KSA Sourcing Category Plan
• You will define Supplier targets and critical metrics 

Key Qualifications:

• Education: A first academic degree or equivalent qualification. (An MBA is a plus) 
• Min 3-5 years of sourcing experience and / or extensive experience negotiation telecom projects with subcontractors.
• Domain experience: Networks and Managed Service
• Sourcing Practice in negotiations, Methodology, Process & Strategy Knowledge
• Change & Improvement Management Skills
• Commercial Acumen & Skills
• Relating & Networking
• Financial Acumen & Skills
• Coaching & Mentoring Skills
• Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration Skills

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 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.