Semiconductor, Electric and Electronics Sourcing

This role requires a broad and long experience from the industry. You need also to be very adaptive to the business, react fast, drive hard and be consistent to make sure Ericsson get needed support and supply in escalated situation. I have the supply responsibility for majority of Ericsson’s largest international semiconductor suppliers with complex product portfolio and long lead time devices.Example of work tasks:- Executive Business Review with the suppliers (EBR and MBR)- Negotiations and Agreement responsibility for logistical agreements- Supplier Scorecard on a quarterly basis- Supplier market updates - Supplier executive relationship management - Continuous work with follow up, interpretation and improvements of the supplier’s supply capabilities and supply chain - Drive and develop visibility, understanding and methods to secure the supply chain for complex semiconductors - Manage Supply escalations

I have been working as Corporate Program Manager/Strategic Sourcing Manager within the Radio and Core HW Sourcing organization. I worked in the Electronics group with focus on Radio Base Station end products. In this role, I have both supplier relationship and product responsibilities. From a supplier relationship management perspective (Corporate Program Manager), I had responsibilities for several suppliers where a broad and complex product portfolio were used by Ericsson, also belonging to top spend HW suppliers for Ericsson as well as technology critical for Ericsson. I had the CPM role for semiconductor suppliers like Infineon Technologies, NXP Semiconductor and Freescale Semiconductor (today part of NXP). From a product responsibility perspective, I had commercially responsibilities for our complete semiconductor portfolio, within one of Ericsson’s most critical and complex areas, RF Power Amplifiers. I also had a team leader role for our RF Power Category Team. Ericsson’s RF Power Category team is a cross functional team (design, component technology, sourcing and supply) who are working with Ericsson's strategy within that technology area. I have been working both externally, with suppliers, as well as internally, within Ericsson, in a global environment. Ericsson had design centers for radio base stations in Ottawa, Beijing, Chengdu, Gothenburg and Kista, which I have been supporting in a day to day fashion. I have also, in this role, been in very close cooperation with Ericsson’s Supply organization and the factories Ericsson had around the globe. During my 7+ years as SSM/CPM, I had responsibilities for several other semiconductor product and category areas as well as the supplier responsibilities that follow. Categories and products like Analog RF, Isolators, Circulators and Couplers. Suppliers like Hitachi Metals, SDP Telecom, MACOM, Anaren, Qorvo and Peregrine Semiconductor (Today part of Murata).

IDT is US based company and a global leader in design and manufacturing of semiconductors.I started as a field sales engineer (FSE) to drive the overall engagement with Ericsson. I added Ericsson global responsibilities (GAM) in 1998.  In the end of 1999 I was promoted to Regional Manager and added on responsibility for the whole Nordic region and I built up a larger team in the region. In 2000 IDT Nordic revenue peaked at almost $60M in sales and I managed 9 direct sales employees and 3 distributors. The significant telecom market downturn in 2002 required a need for enhancing the performance, adjusting the size (RIF´s) and COS efficiency everywhere. This resulted in a new smaller organization in Nordic where I took a dual global account manager role (Ericsson and Nokia). IDT merged with another US based semiconductor company ICS in 2006, the dual GAM roles where removed and I took the Ericsson global responsibility. I also had the responsibility for the administration of IDT´s Nordic operation with offices in Sweden and in Finland

Scandcomp Sweden was a stocking rep with focus on semiconductors. I was marketing and sales responsible for OKI Electric (a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer) targeting the Swedish market. I was also overreaching responsibility for the sales in Norway and Finland

Saab Combitech group designed and manufactured industrial electronics.I worked as a component engineer with the commercial and industrial component standard. I was responsible for semiconductor areas like logic, memories and microprocessors.

Test engineer at incoming Inspection Department. Designed test programs for incoming inspection of logic and memory circuits