We invite you to embark on a thrilling career as a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Ericsson. Your role will involve proactive business development through effective supplier and partner relationships, focusing on our customer, stakeholder, and business needs. You are expected to qualify and negotiate terms for supplier/partner agreements while managing external purchases and licenses for products and services. As part of your duties, you will manage the supplier/partner relationships, actively steering business contributions and assessing performance, while mitigating risks associated with commercial agreements.
What you will do:- Navigate the Source to Agreement process; understanding business requirements (scope), preparing and executing RFx processes, evaluating and selecting suppliers, leading negotiations, managing supplier agreement implementation, and facilitating handover to P2P.
- Abide strictly by the Sourcing Group�s protocols, documents, processes, and tools for regulatory and ethical sourcing.
- Adapt to evolving responsibilities as per our unit's requirements.
The skills you bring:- Strategic Sourcing.
- Sourcing Execution.
- Negotiation.
- Communication.
- Financial Acumen.
- Market insights.
- Sourcing Compliance.
- Ericsson Portfolio.
- Stakeholder Management.
- Business Understanding.
- Supplier Engagement.
- Risk management.
- Sourcing Process and Strategy.
- Procurement Management.
- Supplier Management.