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The role requires strong program governance, telecom technical understanding, commercial awareness, and the ability to lead cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.\nWhat you will do\nLead end-to-end delivery of complex Packet Core and CNIS programs, from planning and mobilization through deployment, integration, migration, testing, acceptance, handover, and closure.\nAct as a trusted customer partner, building strong relationships with customer executives, technical teams, operations, internal leadership, suppliers, and partners.\nTranslate customer requirements and contractual commitments into clear program roadmaps, delivery plans, milestones, governance models, and measurable outcomes.\nLead cross-functional teams across Packet Core, CNIS, Network Management, integration, deployment, testing, and operations.\nOwn overall program performance across scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, risks, dependencies, change, and customer acceptance.\nEstablish strong program and financial governance through executive reviews, steering forums, forecasting, reporting, decision-making, and action tracking.\nProactively identify and manage technical, delivery, commercial, resource, security, and operational risks, driving mitigation, escalation, and recovery plans.\nManage changes to scope, timelines, resources, and commercial commitments through appropriate governance and approval processes.\nAlign resource demand and capacity with delivery priorities, ensuring the right capabilities are available at the right time.\nEnsure quality, compliance, delivery readiness, customer acceptance, and a controlled transition into operations and support.\nPartner with account, solution, product, commercial, and delivery teams to ensure continuity from solutioning and sales handover through execution.\nManage multiple delivery streams using Hybrid Delivery Models, including Factory Model and resource-based delivery.\nMonitor and drive operational and delivery KPIs, including A&I, SSAT, SSP adoption, and CI/CD adoption.\nThe skills you bring\n15+ years of experience leading large and complex customer-facing telecom delivery programs, preferably for Tier-1 telecommunications operators.\nStrong knowledge of Packet Core, 4G/5G Core Network, Cloud Native Infrastructure/CNIS, and Network Management environments.\nExperience across deployment, integration, migration, upgrades, testing, CI/CD, operational readiness, and service transition.\nProven ability to deliver against contractual commitments while managing scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, risks, dependencies, and change.\nStrong executive-level customer and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust, influence stakeholders, and drive fact-based decisions.\nStrong program governance and financial management capabilities, including planning, forecasting, budgeting, performance reporting, risk management, and escalation management.\nExperience leading matrixed, multicultural, cross-functional, and geographically distributed teams.\nCertifications such as PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum, or SAFe are preferred; equivalent practical experience is also valued.\nPractical experience with program and project management tools such as SAP, Microsoft Project, estimation tools, Erimatch, GC, and related platforms.\nWhy 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.\nWhat 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. 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