About this opportunity:
We at Ericsson are actively seeking an Improvement and Performance Manager. This unique opportunity involves identifying, driving, supporting, and facilitating potent transformations and changes - from discerning business requirements to achieving superior business results. The successful applicant will be instrumental in delivering improved customer, operational and/or financial performance impacts alongside the requisite cultural changes. You will be expected to actively participate in target-setting and operational performance management, and to bring your analytical expertise to bear on our transformation initiatives, business processes, units and functions. By above, you are expected to build a very wide knowledge of how to run organization in a better way, and high collaboration skills on wide coverage within the company.

What you will do:
- Proactively scrutinize and propose enhancements to processes, methods of operation, workflows and organizational structures.
- Define business cases and set the view of purpose alignment for transformation initiatives.
- Identifying and managing risks associated with transformation initiatives.
- Drive transformation initiatives from inception to adoption, while ensuring OKRs are met and business cases realized.
- Partake in target setting and operational performance management.
- Apply your analytical skills to transformation initiatives, business functions, and units.

The skills you bring:
- Process knowledge on general presale and project management or EBP (Ericsson Business Process and Finance Processes)
- Agile Program / Projects Management Skills.
- Analytical skills by both traditional tools excel, power BI and automation /AI.
- Change Management and Change Communication.
- Influencing and persuading skills. 
- Build Business Case and Drive Results.
- High adoption of Ericsson culture, work with integrity.
- Business-level English language skills.

What would potentially be a plus:
-    Local language skills (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
-    Customer understanding
-    Finance knowledge

Why join Ericsson?

At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
 
What happens once you apply?

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Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, learn more.

Primary country and city: Japan (JP) || Yokohama

Req ID: 748350