Strategic Sourcing Manager | Early Career Program

About this opportunity

Ericsson’s Early Career Program is an 18-month journey for you who are recently graduated or have up to five years of relevant experience. Through three rotations, including one international and market exposure, you will tackle challenges that matter, work alongside people who expect you to contribute, question, and move things forward.

The accelerated track is designed to develop future leaders who are motivated by performance, pace, and commercial impact. You’ll rotate across a range of functions such as Sales, Commercial Management, Sourcing, Strategy, Supply, Finance and more. Working on priorities that directly influence results and learning how different parts of the business connect to create value.

This isn’t a program where you sit on the sideline. From day one, you’re hired permanently into a role, trusted to contribute, supported to grow, and expected to make an impact. Find out more about the Early Career program here. Your journey within the Early Career Program will start as a Strategic Sourcing Manager

About the team

We as the Sourcing Team, look after 130 billion SEK external spend working with suppliers all around the world. That means we influence around 62% of Ericsson’s net sales value by searching for the best and negotiating favorable deals. We are one big team of around 1,000 people in more than 60 countries working with more than 20,000 suppliers. Our job is very exciting because we get to work with an end-to-end business approach, gaining insight and understanding from R&D to Service Delivery.

We are looking for potentially six Strategic Sourcing Managers, depending on your assigned team, you may work with different sourcing categories

• Electrical Manufacturing Services: Sourcing global manufacturing services for Ericsson’s product portfolio, and related supply chain and industrialization services.
• Energy Systems: Sourcing energy site products, related SW features and energy related products for data centers and lab operation to ensure reliable and energy-efficient operation on site.
• IT Software: Sourcing software, cloud solutions, and IT services that support Ericsson's technology portfolio.
• Logistics & Freight: Sourcing transportation, freight and logistics services that enable the movement of products across Ericsson's global supply chain.
• Network Products Hardware: Sourcing hardware components, equipments and solutions used in Ericsson's radio and network products.
• Repair: Sourcing repair, refurbishment, and related lifecycle services that support Ericsson’s products and global supply chain.

While each team has its own focus, they share the same goal: building strong supplier partnerships, driving commercial excellence, and supporting Ericsson's innovation and business performance.

What you will do

As a Strategic Sourcing Manager, you will work at the intersection of business, technology, and supplier collaboration. You will contribute to sourcing strategies, commercial decisions, and supplier partnerships that create value for Ericsson and its customers.

While your responsibilities will depend on your assigned sourcing area, you will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to sourcing projects, including RFx processes, supplier evaluation, selection, negotiation and onboarding.
• Build and manage supplier relationships to drive performance, quality, innovation, and long-term business value.
• Analyze supplier, market, and commercial data to support fact-based decisions, cost efficiency, and risk mitigation.
• Support responsible sourcing, sustainability, environmental, and compliance requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional and regional stakeholders to align sourcing activities with business needs.
• Support digital vision initiatives and explore digital tools, dashboard, automation, and AI to improve sourcing processes efficiency, and decision-making.

You will bring

• A master’s degree in Supply chain management, Business, Economics, Information System, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven mindset.
• Good communication and storytelling skills to collaborate and influence stakeholders.
• Curious, proactive, and results-oriented, with a passion for continuous learning.
• Confidence to speak up, challenge existing ways of working, and bring new ideas.
• Commercial awareness and an interest in creating business value.
• Interest in emerging technologies, analytics, automation, AI or supply chain management.
• Previous experience or academic exposure in procurement, contract management, finance, IT software, manufacturing, logistics, and Power BI or similar tools is a plus.

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?Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.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 Employer. learn more.

Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) ||

Req ID: 793058