People Business Partner | Early Career Program

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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 Excellerate track is designed to develop future leaders who are motivated by performance, pace, and commercial impact. You’ll rotate across Sales, Commercial Management, 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 programme where you sit on the sidelines. From day one, you’re hired 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 People Business Partner at People team!

This role is designed for a game-changing People Business Partner who can independently drive the people and business agenda today and grow into a future HR leader for Ericsson Global. As a trusted advisor to Market Area North East Asia (MNEA) business leaders, you translate people priorities into clear actions that elevate business performance, employee experience, and organizational effectiveness. You combine strong execution discipline with curiosity, data and AI literacy, and a change mindset.

What you will do

• Act as a trusted People partner to MNEA business leaders, challenging and supporting them on people topics that impact business performance and culture.
• Translate business priorities into clear people plans and execute them with strong follow-through, ensuring alignment with organizational needs.
• Use people data, analytics, and insights to identify trends, frame recommendations, and enable fact-based decisions.
• Drive and support change initiatives, engaging stakeholders, coordinating implementation, and supporting adoption across teams.
• Apply AI literacy and digital curiosity to simplify ways of working, improve productivity, and enhance employee and leader experience.
• Lead and manage assigned People projects end to end, with robust planning, coordination, risk management, and delivery discipline.
• Collaborate across the People function (locally and globally) to ensure integrated, consistent, and high-quality support to the business.
• Role-model Ericsson values, behaviors, leadership, and a growth mindset, contributing to a future-ready People function and talent pipeline.

You will bring

• Solid understanding of HR fundamentals or people management experience and the ability to connect people topics directly to business outcomes.
• Proven ability to execute: turning strategy and plans into action, with ownership, speed, and high-quality delivery.
• Data-centric mindset, with experience using people metrics and dashboards to generate insights and drive decisions.
• AI literacy and confidence in exploring and using digital tools to improve efficiency, insight generation, and service quality.
• Change mindset, with openness to new ways of working and the ability to help leaders and teams navigate transformation.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, prioritization, stakeholder coordination, and delivery follow-through.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills in a matrix, multicultural environment.
• High eagerness to learn, grow, and build new capabilities in a fast-evolving People function, with clear ambition to become a future HR leader for Ericsson Global.

In addition, you have:

• 3-5 years of People / HR professional, or People Manager preferably with business partnering experience at cross-regional or cross-country level.
• Comfortable working closely with senior leaders, influencing decisions, and constructively challenging where needed.
• Able to work independently, take ownership, and proactively move topics forward without waiting for direction.
• Global mindset with the ability to collaborate across cultures; strong English communication skills, and capability to operate effectively.

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: Japan (JP) || Yokohama

Req ID: 793215