Mats Kallmyr

My profile/personality;

I have broad and more than 25 years of managerial experiences within; automobile, medical, aluminium, oil, gas, consultancy, telecom industry, IT and Customer support management. 

I have demonstrates high communication and interpersonal attributes and serves as liaison between management and internal/external customers.

 Leadership skills:

I’m a passionate and well-experienced transformational leader, and that's something I am trying to make into perfection. Transformational Leadership give individual attention and working to generating inspirational motivation. Combine empowerment with vision and direction, as well as support and developing the individual.

Management skills:

Always looking for opportunities to improve ways of working, operational excellence and consistently delivers on time with excellent quality, as well as cost optimizing.

Have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, quickly assessing situations, providing solutions when needed, and have the courage to drive the change.

I have practical business approach to modify and enhance workflow processes and structures.

 As per Belbin personal test;

 Shaper - Challenging, dynamic, thrives on pressure. The drive and courage to overcome obstacles.

 Coordinator – Mature, confident, a good chairperson. Clarifies goals, promotes decision-making, delegates well.

 Completer finisher - Painstaking, conscientious, anxious. Searches out errors and omissions. Delivers on time.

Short summery of my carrier;

Today I work as “R&D IT Project Office Manager”, and just before that I was Project Portfolio Manager for Ericsson Group within Finance (and Sourcing) area. Part of that role was to drive the portfolio and purchase IT-projects, as well as have responsibility to create IT supplier landscape strategy.

From June 2009-Jan 2010 I worked as interim Finance Manager for ST-Ericsson’s Finance Department. I had a lot of interaction with Sourcing department in order to solve the operational issues. I also recruited the finance resources, implemented processes and finalized the finance part of the ERP implementation.

I worked as a Contact Center (CC) Manager (2006-2009) at Ericsson’s largest Shared Service Center (SSC) located in Sweden. After three years of hard work, my team became a world class CC team with highly motivated individuals that could apply among others team synergy to outperform demanding goals and earned top result among all eight Ericsson Contact Centers.

I was a Global Program Manager during 2005-2006 and implemented an Ericsson business strategically sourcing solution in all twelve SSC in the world. As a result, today all global existing SSC are scanning supplier invoices and enabling the centralization of supplier invoice handling in Manila.

I worked as Finance Controller in Riyadh (Saudi) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates) 2003-2005. Part of my assignment was to align the Finance organization (indirectly also others departments) towards the Ericsson way of working. I developed the finance group to a high performance team, and even though I reduced the group with 2 people, they delivered three times more than before.

Before the assignment in Middle East I was a board member of Ericsson’s first Shared Service Center Stockholm, reported to CEO. I had the position as Service Delivery Manager Sweden for the Sourcing process Accounts Payable. I supervised all existing AP-departments in Sweden which were handling over 2 million invoices; had 10 direct reporting managers who supervised approx 160 employees.

The first time I worked in a SSC environment is at Norwegian Hydro Sweden’s SSC (oil, aluminium, fertilizer etc company). I really liked the SSC concept with all its synergies.

I have been in Saab Automobile AB for 8 years and worked as e.g. Purchaser, Export Credit Manager, Customer interface (AR Manager), Business Controller and Department Controller. The key concept that I have learned at Saab Automobile was the "Toyota model". I have lived by that code within my carrier ever since.

For more details (career, recommendations from managers, peers, employees etc) please kindly review my updated Curriculum Vitae (CV) at http://www.linkedin.com/in/kallmyr. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!

I am very interested in Asian cultures, and it has always been my goal to work in Asia for at least 3-4 years (or even more). My wife comes from Shanghai, China, and we have had an apartment there since 1996. We use to visit Shanghai every year for approx 5-6 weeks, so during those 15 years I have enhanced good knowledge of the Asian culture.