Join Ericsson’s 18-month Early Career Program as a Strategy Manager, solving complex business questions across markets, technology, planning, risk, and strategy. The role involves quantitative and qualitative analysis, market exploration, cross-functional collaboration, and translating insights into recommendations for senior stakeholders. You will contribute to strategic projects, use data and AI tools, challenge assumptions, and gain broad exposure across Ericsson Networks while developing toward future leadership opportunities.
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, move things forward, and bring to closure.
The Excellerate track is designed to develop future leaders who are motivated by performance, pace, and commercial impact. Rotations are cross-functional, and may be 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 Strategy Manager. This role is designed for individuals with exceptional potential rather than extensive experience. It offers broad exposure to senior leaders, strategic choices and business priorities across Ericsson Networks, creating a unique foundation for future leadership roles within Ericsson.
What you will do
As a Strategy Manager in Ericsson's Early Career Program, you will join BA Networks Strategy, a team responsible for identifying and shaping the strategic questions that matter most for Ericsson Networks. We bring together perspectives from markets and sales, technology and across Ericsson to clarify implications, develop recommendations and help shape and drive the direction of our Networks business.
Your work will be varied and project-based. You will take complex and sometimes ambiguous questions, bring structure to them, develop fact based insight, and help translate those insights into implications, options and recommendations. You will learn how major business decisions are framed, challenged and translated into action.
You will work in an environment across business strategy, market and technology outlooks, business planning, strategic analysis, risk management and executive decision support. The team works on topics that influence the future direction, competitiveness and performance of Ericsson's largest business..
You will bring
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: Sweden (SE) || Stockholm
Req ID: 792931
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, move things forward, and bring to closure.
The Excellerate track is designed to develop future leaders who are motivated by performance, pace, and commercial impact. Rotations are cross-functional, and may be 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 Strategy Manager. This role is designed for individuals with exceptional potential rather than extensive experience. It offers broad exposure to senior leaders, strategic choices and business priorities across Ericsson Networks, creating a unique foundation for future leadership roles within Ericsson.
What you will do
As a Strategy Manager in Ericsson's Early Career Program, you will join BA Networks Strategy, a team responsible for identifying and shaping the strategic questions that matter most for Ericsson Networks. We bring together perspectives from markets and sales, technology and across Ericsson to clarify implications, develop recommendations and help shape and drive the direction of our Networks business.
Your work will be varied and project-based. You will take complex and sometimes ambiguous questions, bring structure to them, develop fact based insight, and help translate those insights into implications, options and recommendations. You will learn how major business decisions are framed, challenged and translated into action.
You will work in an environment across business strategy, market and technology outlooks, business planning, strategic analysis, risk management and executive decision support. The team works on topics that influence the future direction, competitiveness and performance of Ericsson's largest business..
- Take on complex and sometimes ambiguous business questions and bring structure to them.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to uncover insights and support strategic decisions.
- Use data, digital tools and AI to strengthen the way strategic questions are explored and solved.
- Explore markets, business trends and strategic opportunities to understand what they mean for Ericsson Networks.
- Work across teams and functions to gather perspectives, challenge assumptions and move strategic topics forward.
- Turn analysis into clear, concise recommendations and decision material for senior stakeholders.
- Contribute to several strategic projects and priorities, building broad exposure across technology, markets and business topics.
- Help frame strategic questions, challenge assumptions and clarify trade-offs to support business decisions.
You will bring
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to bring structure to unclear problems.
- Confidence working with data and turning information into meaningful conclusions.
- Clear and concise communication, with the ability to explain your thinking simply.
- Curiosity and confidence when approaching unfamiliar problems and topics.
- Strong collaboration skills, including listening, asking thoughtful questions and moving discussions forward.
- Ambition, ownership and a willingness to learn and develop quickly.
- Experience from consulting, strategy, business analysis, finance, market intelligence, engineering or technology is valuable, but we are primarily looking for the intellectual curiosity, learning agility and potential for future leadership.
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: Sweden (SE) || Stockholm
Req ID: 792931
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