Ericsson has completed a restructuring in Spain, which includes the departure of CEO Diego Martínez.

Cinco Dias reported earlier this week that Martínez has been replaced following the vendor's European reorganization.

Martínez spent less than a year in the role, having joined from MasOrange last November. As part of the reshuffle, Juan Olivera has been appointed as country manager and chairman of the board of directors of Ericsson Spain.

The Spanish newspaper reports that the entire commercial branch will be led by Christian Leon, the French executive responsible for Ericsson's Western European Customer Unit, with the Spanish subsidiary losing all autonomy.

It is part of a decision by Ericsson to reduce the country clusters into which the Europe, Africa, and the Middle East region was divided from seven to three.

Spain was previously part of an Iberian region cluster with Portugal, but is now part of Western Europe. The unit also includes France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Sources noted that the restructure of Ericsson's Spanish management committee, will include the departure of most of its members.

It comes a couple of months after Ericsson outlined plans to cut 13 percent of its 2,260 Spanish workforce, with 300 jobs set to be axed. In 2023, the company said it will cut 8,500 jobs globally as part of wider cost-cutting measures.

Separately this week, it emerged that Ericsson was laying off 100 of its staff in Canada, as covered by our sister publication SDx.