Manages R&D and capital expenditure investment governance for tools, platforms, and innovation initiatives. Oversees planning, prioritization, forecasting, budget tracking, financial reporting, and compliance with governance tollgates. Partners with business, product, architecture, project, and finance stakeholders to align investments with strategic roadmaps, manage deviations, and provide portfolio insights for leadership decisions.
Role Description
The EOE R&D Investment Manager governs and manages R&D and capex funding related to MSN tools, platforms and innovation initiatives within the SA MSN scope.
The role consolidates, prioritizes and follows up on investments across MSDP, AI/automation assets and related enablers, ensuring alignment with MSN strategy and targeted business outcomes.
Success is measured by maintaining budget compliance, improving forecasting accuracy, timely reporting to leadership and best use of allocated budget.
Role Responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
Role Authority
The R&D Investment Manager has authority to:
Required, Skills, Experience and Qualifications
Preferred Skills and Experience
Behaviors and Competencies
Working Arrangements
Office-based for a minimum of 60% of the working week. Travel is expected in the range of 10% on average, but can rise to around 20% based upon business need. If not based in the UK, a minimum of one week in four will be based in the UK.
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: United Kingdom (GB) || Reading
Req ID: 790645
The EOE R&D Investment Manager governs and manages R&D and capex funding related to MSN tools, platforms and innovation initiatives within the SA MSN scope.
The role consolidates, prioritizes and follows up on investments across MSDP, AI/automation assets and related enablers, ensuring alignment with MSN strategy and targeted business outcomes.
Success is measured by maintaining budget compliance, improving forecasting accuracy, timely reporting to leadership and best use of allocated budget.
Role Responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
- Establish and execute a comprehensive oversight framework for the BPD R&D budget ensuring alignment with strategic business priorities
- Coordinate the annual and mid-term planning cycles for MSN tools and innovation investments
- Communicate & secure approval from key MSN stakeholders for prioritization, forecasting and funding of R&D budget and its individual items and activities
- Work with BPD leadership, MSDP Product Director, Cloud Business Architects & SDAP Product Owners to align investment priorities with strategic roadmaps
- Ensure forecasted and actual spend is actively tracked, regularly updated and visible to key MSN stakeholders and Finance management
- Execute monthly governance with project managers and business owners to review progress, spending trends and adjust forecasts accordingly
- Ensure compliance to TG2, TG3 and TG5 tollgates from a financial perspective
- Flag and actively manage deviations to ensure most effective use of R&D budget
- Implement budget review cadence with key MSN stakeholders
- Participate in governance fora and relevant decision bodies responsible for the oversight, evolution and deployment of MSN tools.
- Provide financial and portfolio insights to support decision-making in operating model and tools governance forums
Role Authority
The R&D Investment Manager has authority to:
- Request information and input from MSN units, product/platform teams and finance to build and track investment cases.
- Recommend prioritization, deferral or reallocation of investments within agreed governance frameworks.
- Escalate investment-related risks and issues to MSN leadership.
Required, Skills, Experience and Qualifications
- Education - University degree in engineering, business, economics or equivalent.
- Experience - Typically 5+ years in managed services, R&D or capex portfolio management, or financial planning, preferably in telecom or technology
- Skills - Strong business and financial acumen; understanding of managed services; good stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to interpret technical platform and innovation proposals and translate them into financial and business terms
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Fluency in English
Preferred Skills and Experience
- A good demonstrated working knowledge of the Ericsson Operations Engine
- Knowledge of the Ericsson or BCSS finance management process for services
- Adept at using AI for workplace-based productivity
Behaviors and Competencies
- Strong collaboration and leadership
- Customer and value focused
- Integrity and resilience
- Innovative and entrepreneurial
- Critical thinking, self-driven & curious
Working Arrangements
Office-based for a minimum of 60% of the working week. Travel is expected in the range of 10% on average, but can rise to around 20% based upon business need. If not based in the UK, a minimum of one week in four will be based in the UK.
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: United Kingdom (GB) || Reading
Req ID: 790645
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