EPG Program Manager @ Ericsson Packet Core-Gateway

Job Description

Introduction

Packet Core (BDGS) develop and deliver packet core solutions for mobile networks. With us at BDGS, you’ll be part of the next step in development of our products. We enable millions of simultaneous connected mobile users while handling traffic from IoT to 4K video in Gbit speeds. BDGS will become the partner of choice of Telecom operators using the latest technologies in cloud and automation to manage complexity so the ambitious can differentiate with TCO efficient solutions for programmable 4G and 5G networks, automated operations and digital engagements.

We stand at the forefront of Agile software development, using methods and principles from Lean and Agile methodologies to create a product that excels. Early customer and stakeholder interaction is a key element in our development process. We rely on team collective responsibility to complete all deliverables according to a prioritized backlog.

To expand our organization’s capability and responsiveness towards market needs we are looking for ambitious, intelligent, creative and inspiring individuals to join us. We provide a fun and challenging environment where you can grow and inspire your colleagues to further growth.

Job Summary

We are looking for an EPG Program Manager to join PDG Gateway, where we are responsible for the development and release of Gateway products. For every day, we strive to make our products and way of working better than yesterday, integrating continuously as well as listening and delivering to customer as often as possible.

As a Program Manager at Gateway, you will be part of fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration and trust. At Gateway we constantly try to learn new things and we guarantee that you will develop as a leader and grow together with the organization.

The role is based in Lindholmen (our headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden), but we also have operations in Shanghai and Madrid as well as strong dependencies to platform development in Budapest, Beijing and Bangalore.

The purpose of EPG Program Manager is to achieve EPG monthly releasability by;

• Ensuring that we always have a known status and plan that represent the reality
• Ensuring that our stakeholders know, understand and trust the status and plan
• Ensuring that we have a known risk level quantified on EPG level with mitigation possibilities identified
• Driving mitigation actions to ensure required changes take effect

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

• Visualize overall EPG plan and progress towards plan, including overall risk level and mitigation actions
• Optimize communication flows within the global GW organization and adapt communication structure to market needs
• Communicate with applicable stakeholders
• Capture impediments and drive applicable actions to remove the impediments
• Secure continuous flow optimization

Essential Skills & Experience Requirements

• Self-driven, result oriented and proactive
• Well organized with excellent communication skills
• Excellent risk management skills
• Ability to take decisions and follow through to wanted effect
• Ability to create strong networks
• Genuine interest in leadership and strong coaching capabilities
• Energized by continuously challenging yourself and the organization
• Experience in project management, Lean and Agile principles
• Fluent in English, written and oral
• Interest and good understanding of R&D and SW development

As Program Manager you are a leader in the organization and as such you together with other leaders guide our teams. Therefore, it is important for you to have a high interest in people, processes and technologies.

We also believe you are passionate about Lean and Agile principles and thrive on continuously challenging yourself and the organization towards better and faster customer value while having fun.

Do you recognize yourself and want to join a great team? Make contact and send us your application!

Do you recognize yourself and want to join a great team? Make contact and send us your application!

Please send us your application as soon as possible.

Application details:

Location: Göteborg, Sweden

If you have any specific questions please contact Senior Recruiter Johanna Kristensen at [email protected]

Please note we cannot accept applications via email.

Last application date: April 21st 2020

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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Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || || Göteborg || IT; ProdMgt; R&D

Req ID: 331862