Services Portfolio Director

**Join our Team**:
Cognitive Network Solutions (CNS) Services Portfolio team is at the forefront of mobile network planning and optimization services offerings enabling Communication Service Providers (CSP’s) to improve network performance, maximize return on investment of their assets and achieve the optimum Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for network planning and optimization. Take a look here for an overview of our offerings and customers: Cognitive Network Solutions - Ericsson

We work closely with Communication Service Providers (CSP’s) on creating innovative services offering in the areas of planning, deployment, optimization and healing.

We are looking for Services Portfolio Director to join our team. In our terms, you are the investment manager and the CEO of the services offerings. Although you will not hold formal authority, you will drive and influence the whole organization to execute on the services strategy for your portfolio - a fast paced and exciting role

You will develop a strategic approach as a portfolio leader, with clear understanding of customer needs and business goals across the different offerings for software and services.

You will build and communicate an effective vision, develop, implement and communicate offering strategies to teams in different market areas across Ericsson in close collaboration with our global service delivery teams. You must be passionate about business, numbers, mobile technologies and AI.

Your day-to-day work will look different, as you engage with customers and maintain relationships with key stakeholders. You will make critical decisions on service offering strategies, prioritizations, partners and select the right business models for the portfolio.

Doing so, you need to foster a culture of innovation across organizations, stay up to date on industry trends and technological development, use market intelligence to make strategic and tactical decision and adapt services offerings to harness their potential.

**To be successful in this role, you must have**:

- Portfolio leadership and lifecycle management experience in the mobile networks industry
- Hands-on experience developing and/or delivering planning, optimization and operations services to CSP’s
- Solid understanding of CSP processes for network operations across domains, including Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies
- Solid understanding of AI, data science, analytics and cloud technologies
- Solid understanding of SMO and ORAN alliance architecture and use cases
- Eye for business and awareness that span unit and enterprise levels
- The ability to communicate and foster positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Consultative selling and negotiation skills
- Experience in influencing and managing people from a diverse set of backgrounds

**Long Description**:
**Plus, you should**:

- Be ready to learn and grow
- Embrace that we experiment and explore everyday
- Have a “can do” attitude facing challenges
- Have a never settle mentality; curious, outspoken and tactful personality
- Be fluent communicator, an impressive presenter and conversation starter on stage or online
- Be able to capture the big picture while paying attention to details
- Be an exemplary time manager
- Be digital citizen; likes using digital tools in handling work
- Be a great teammate with the right sense of humor

**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?**

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**Primary country and city**: Spain (ES) || Málaga

**Job details**: Portfolio Management