ICT Program Director

The skills you bring:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
  
• Minimum 6 years of experience as Program Manager, including Core and Cloud delivery
  
• Experience delivering physical, virtualized, and containerized Network Function projects
  
• Expertise in automating test and deployment processes
  
• Experience to Support sales teams to drive new business opportunities.
  
• Strong project control skills, with the ability to manage projects to meet targets and deadlines.
  
• Solid financial background and experience with business case development
  
• Highly developed risk-management skills
  
• Demonstrated accountability, customer-focused mindset, positive outlook, willingness to help others outside your assigned activities
  
• Strong relationship management experience with leadership, engineers, developers, support, and sales teams
  
• Innovative and creative problem-solving abilities.
  
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent project management certification is preferred.
  
• Experience with solutions in the Packet Core and communication services platforms (e.g., Dual Mode Core, PCC/PCG, MME, EPG, SAPC, UDM, IMS VoLTE, IoT)
  
• Experience using automation and software management tools such as JIRA, Confluence or SharePoint.
  

• Drive sophisticated 5G and 4G Core and Cloud engagements from initial scoping through delivery for Ericsson’s Customers in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry
  
• Lead and empower local and global teams to deliver on-time, enhance profitability, and improve continuously, through strong governance and project controls
  
• Identify all milestones, obstacles, recommend and implement workable solutions, identify and mitigate risk, raise and resolve issues
  
• Lead change management including the definition of impacts to scope, budget, timeline, and quality with stakeholder agreement
  
• Build strong internal and external relationships
  
• Harvest and optimize best practices, create and share knowledge assets to industrialize delivery processes
  
• Promote a “one team” atmosphere and coach project team members to support their professional growth