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Helsinki Area, Finland

Working closely together with customers from various industries to improve their value chain performance as a whole, from basic process descriptions to advanced digital supply chain strategies and their implementation. Present focus in creating takt process based construction production system capabilities for customers globally; including processes, digital systems, data/AI and education. Key KPI is radical reduction in production lead times, at the same time boosting ESG performance.

Espoo, Finland

Managing COGS (Cost of Goods Sold, all other product costs except OPEX and SG&A) business case for new products, including cost element targeting to meet product gross margin targets. COGS includes all supply chain related product costs i.e. material costs as well as factory/manufacturing -, repair/care -, freight -, CAPEX -, license –, excess - and overhead costs. Responsibilities after Apr 2014 included also managing supplier portfolio strategy for Microsoft Phones.

Espoo

Responsible of managing supplier portfolio strategy and related business development in alignment with Nokia Smart Devices business needs. Major re-org during the transfer to Microsoft changed the job titles.

Espoo

Responsible of Nokia Semiconductor Sourcing business planning (total purchases in the order of $5B). In details the job included e.g. supplier and component portfolio KPI management, supply risk management, industry landscape analysis, component cost analysis, ecosystem development and steering of Sourcing teams.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Responsible of a corporate level project where Nokia chipset strategy was re-assessed and existing strategy updated from make to buy, according to the changing business environment.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Responsible of leading the connectivity (WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Cellular, USB, Digital TV…) system design for all Nokia product platforms. In addition to 10-15 direct reports there was massive virtual team to be managed in product platform development teams across whole organization.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Responsible of Nokia multiradio strategy creation and execution via project portfolio management and supplier steering. Average resourcing 45-50 person years/year, included diverse topics from both HW and SW during the years. Building extensive multiradio patent portfolio as one key highlight. This asset is of a high value to Nokia today as we protected the basic functionalities for Internet of Things (IoT).

Helsinki Area, Finland

Responsible of a product level research program with roughly 50 man years per year resourcing. The goal of the program was to reduce the 1st Nokia 3G handset power consumption by 50% with new emerging technologies from global suppliers.

Oulu Area, Finland

Responsible of specifying and developing RF (Radio Frequency i.e. wireless) components for the Nokia’s first 3G products. Major part of the job was to collaborate with component suppliers from U.S., Japan and Europe.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Leadership And Sustainability

Master, Telecommunications