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Junior Project Planner
Project Planner Graduate trainee (12m programme) – North Europe (NEU PMO)
About the Role
Are you a recent graduate eager to kickstart your career in project planning, project governance, and project financial management within a global technology company?
Join Ericsson’s North Europe Project Office (NEU PMO) and gain hands-on experience supporting Customer Project Managers, Planners, and project finance colleagues in planning, coordinating, and reporting on customer projects.
This role is designed for graduates who are passionate about learning, enjoy working with data, and structuring projects. Through a structured 12-month development programme, you’ll receive training, mentoring, and guidance to build confidence and advance into future roles in project planning, project management, or project financial management within the PMO.
Your Responsibilities
You will:
- Support the NEU PMO team in delivering structured project planning, reporting, and governance activities.
- Assist in translating project and contract information into clear planning inputs, customer deliverables, milestones, and dependencies (under guidance).
- Support project planning and scheduling using tools such as:
- Site Tracker
- Global Chronos
- SAP
- Prepare and maintain:
- Project status reports
- Dashboards
- Action trackers
- Ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility on progress, risks, issues, and forecasts.
- Manage project documentation, version control, and Project Library structure to:
- Meet audit readiness requirements
- Support effective governance
- Conduct data analysis to:
- Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks
- Raise findings with Customer Project Managers, senior planners, or finance colleagues.
- Collaborate across:
- Local and global teams (Project Managers, Network Program Directors, Implementation Managers, Project Finance Managers, Engineers, Delivery Teams, Customers, and Partners).
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Development and Mentoring
You will join a structured 12-month development programme, including:
- Training in Ericsson’s ways of working and NEU PMO practices.
- Shadowing experienced Project Planners, Project Managers, and MCOs.
- Gradual ownership of planning and reporting activities.
- Regular feedback, a clear development plan, and access to Ericsson’s learning resources to grow your career.
Requirements
To succeed in this role, you should:
- Be a recent graduate (or equivalent) with a degree in:
- Business, Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Economics, Data/Analytics, or a related field.
- Have a strong motivation to develop a career in project management, PMO, or project financial management at Ericsson.
- Demonstrate analytical skills and attention to detail:
- Be comfortable working with numbers, data, and structured information.
- Excel in organisation, managing multiple tasks, and ensuring follow-through to completion.
- Communicate clearly and confidently:
- Strong written and verbal skills.
- Ability to adapt communication for different stakeholders.
- Be collaborative, relationship-driven, and open to cross-functional/cultural teamwork.
- Adopt a proactive, curious, and continuous-improvement mindset:
- Open to feedback.
- Desire to learn new tools and methods.
- Have a solid working knowledge of standard office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Experience with planning, reporting, or analytics tools is a plus.
- Be fully proficient in English; additional languages are advantageous.
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Why Ericsson?
This is an exciting opportunity to:
- Launch your career in a global technology company.
- Gain practical experience in customer project delivery, governance, and financial management.
- Learn from experienced professionals and grow into roles such as Project Planner, Project Manager, or MCO within Ericsson.
Recruitment Process
For more details on Ericsson’s hiring process, click here.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Ericsson champions a diverse and inclusive work environment, believing that diverse perspectives drive innovation—key to our future growth. We encourage applications from:
- All backgrounds
- Underrepresented groups
Ericsson proudly upholds equal opportunities for all applicants.
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