Telenor Group is world’s leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 158 million subscribers and annual sales of around NOK 99 billion (2022). We are committed to responsible business conduct and driven by the ambition of empowering societies. Connectivity has been Telenor’s domain for more than 160 years, and our purpose is to connect our customers to what matters most.
We have a leading Nordic position in mobile, broadband and TV services, as well as substantial activities in subsidiaries and joint venture operations, including mobile financial services and online classifieds in the Asia region. Worldwide, Telenor Group and our operations’ teams are 14,000 people strong.
Telenor Procurement Company (TPC), established in 2017 and based out of Singapore, operates as a subsidiary of the Telenor Group. We deliver Global Category Management as a service to the Telenor Business Units and beyond, taking full responsibility for the end-to-end Sourcing process and performance of global spend categories. Functioning as one Global Procurement team across all Telenor markets, we enable Telenor’s strategic ambitions by becoming a centre of expertise in the pursuit of efficient operations. TPC seeks qualified procurement professionals that are comfortable working in a global setup in the fast-paced Telecom field.
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Main tasks
- Lead to analyse and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
- Lead to establish measures to assess progress, savings, and targets
- Lead to monitor the effectiveness of category performance report processes, data analysis and make recommendations for system, process and performance improvements
- Lead in providing periodic reports on all procurement activities for the category
- Collaborate with user departments to reduce the procurement cycle time
- Be responsible to identify and realize cost saving or improvement initiatives in the procurement of goods and services
- Identify, analyse, and develop vendor markets
- Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple user departments
- Participate and follow-up closely with Category Manager on Telenor Contract management requirements
- Participate and engage actively in negotiations and ensure delivery targets
- Output recommendation to support Implementation of Category sourcing strategy
- Create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.
Profile
· Have strong business knowledge in telecommunications landscape
· Broad understanding of the vendor market and deep understanding of Mobile Network (including Managed Services, Operational Services, Maintenance & Support, and general Mobile Network Management)
· Strong ability to communicate and interact effectively (verbal, presentation, facilitation & listening modes of communication) across organizational and cultural boundaries, internal and external
· Strong analytical, systems thinking and problem solving capabilities
· Knowledge of sourcing techniques and demand management & demand forecasting methods
· Familiar with contract setup activities such as specification definition, contract T&C setup
· Advanced experience with data processing tools, e.g. Excel or Tableau
· Result oriented, demonstrating excellent collaboration abilities
· Able to work with a high degree of execution power and passion
· High level of integrity and ethics
· Highly creative and innovative mindset
· Demonstrate commitment, maturity, flexibility and speed in response to challenges
· Commercial and negotiation skills
Qualification and Experience Requirements
- University degree in Finance, Business or Technology or equivalent
- Minimum 3 years in a procurement / contract management / vendor / negotiations / supply chain management role or as functional expert which related in Network Services
- Technology background would be an advantage
