Strategic Product Manager, Transport | Early Career Program

Ericsson; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 480,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson AB in Stockholm invites graduates and early-career professionals to join the 18-month Early Career Program. You join as Strategic Product Manager across Product Line Transport, with three rotations including an international exposure, and you’ll tackle AI, data, and automation initiatives.

You’ll collaborate across Product Management, Strategy & Operations, Sales and Customer Units, building data-driven workflows and shaping portfolio strategy while developing commercial and strategic

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Technology Management, or related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a commercial and strategic mindset.
• Ability to understand business and customer needs and connect them to technology and product opportunities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to simplify complex topics.
• Curiosity about AI, digitalization and new technologies to drive better business outcomes.
• Constructive challenger mindset and openness to different viewpoints remains essential.
• Experience from internships, thesis work, academic projects or early professional roles in strategy, business development, product management, customer-facing roles or digital transformation is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Join Product Line Transport and build experience in Strategic Product Management across Ericsson's Microwave, Routers & Fronthaul, and Transport Automation portfolios.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Strategy & Operations, Sales and Customer Units to drive portfolio initiatives.
• Contribute to AI, automation and data-driven workflows to improve efficiency and decision-making.
• Help translate customer needs and market developments into input for portfolio evolution.
• Develop portfolio strategy and business performance insights from data and market insights.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Strategic mindset

Communication skills

Curiosity about AI

Team collaboration

Education

Master's degree

Job description

About this opportunityEricsson’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 Innovate track is designed for you who are driven by building what’s next. You’ll rotate across Research, Product Development, Data, and AI contributing to solutions that don’t just support the business but move it forward.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 Innovate Program will start as Strategic Product Manager.What you will doJoin Product Line Transport and build your experience in Strategic Product Management, working across Ericsson's Microwave, Routers & Fronthaul, and Transport Automation portfolios. You will work closely with the Product Line Transport Leadership Team and collaborate across Product Management, Strategy & Operations, Sales and Customer Units.As part of your first rotation, you will contribute to one of our key transformation areas: exploring how AI, automation and data-driven ways of working can improve how we operate and make decisions. At the same time, you will gain exposure to portfolio strategy, customers, market dynamics and business performance, building an understanding of what it takes to manage and grow a technology portfolio.Explore key workflows across Product Line Transport and identify improvement opportunities.Build scalable, data-driven workflows, and design end-to-end digital process that works across teams and domains.Explore and pilot AI, automation and data-driven ways of working to improve efficiency, strengthen decision-making and make product, business and customer insights easier to use.Contribute to portfolio strategy and business performance, turning data and complex information into clear insights that support strategic and commercial decisions.Bring together customer and market insights from across Customer Units and Market Areas, helping translate customer needs and market developments into input for portfolio evolution.You will bringA recent Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Technology Management, or a related field.Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a commercial and strategic mindsetThe ability to understand business and customer needs and connect them to technology and product opportunities.Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to make complex topics easy to understand.Curiosity about AI, digitalization and new technologies, and an interest in how they can create better business outcomes.A constructive challenger mindset, willing to question assumptions and bring fresh perspectives while staying open to different viewpoints.Experience gained through internships, thesis work, academic projects or early professional roles in areas such as strategy, business development, product management, customer-facing roles, or digital transformation is an advantage.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) || StockholmReq ID: 792443