Attorney And Director, Strategic Sourcing Department
Kista, Stockholm, Se
Started out as Attorney/Contracts Manager and progressively took on more and more responsibilities during 10 year period of extreme growth. Highlights include:Contracts. Hands on and broad experience developing and negotiating supplier and partner contracts for technology, services, products and software for all of the Ericsson N. America portfolio. Provided legal advice and solutions, maintained, improved and created new contract strategies for various business needs, including M&A integration activities, as business expanded into new areas. Hired and managed team of attorneys and contract administrators.Leadership and People Development. Achieved top 10% leadership index based on annual employee survey. Responsible for leading numerous teams, including leading managers. Led People Development initiative for Strategic Sourcing Department, aligned competence needs with corporate strategy, prompted innovative and fun atmosphere, facilitated creative all-employee meetings and workshops and set up customized learning paths. Results include increases in the Employee Engagement, Leadership and Motivation annual survey scores for Strategic Sourcing Department.Supplier Diversity. Led revamped Supplier Diversity Program to ensure customer and government spending commitments were met. Managed customer relationship related to supplier diversity efforts. Resulted in significantly increased diversity spend over a 2-year period.Supplier Relationship Management. Led the development of the newly created Supplier Relationship Management framework and re-organization in North America and assisted with implementation for the global Ericsson organization. Learned valuable change management skills. Results include significant additional cost savings and enhanced sourcing efficiencies.Operations. Managed Fleet Management and Sourcing Operations Teams, during which time new tools, programs were implemented and significant savings were achieved.