Telenor Shared Services AS
Manager, Strategy and Performance ISIT (7 months contract)
Telenor Group is the world’s leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 211 million subscribers and 81 billion NOK in revenues. 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.
Telenor has 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 11,000 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.
For more information, please visit our website: https://www.telenor.com/about/our-companies/other-units/telenor-procurement-company
Main tasks
As a Manager, Strategy and Performance ISIT, you will report directly to VP, ISIT and have a pivotal role in terms of ownership as to formulating and executing overall category management strategies in very close-co-operation with Category Teams. In addition, the role implies taking strong ownership over category reporting and performance management, as well as taking a forward leaning approach towards systematically supporting identification of new value-creation opportunities. You will work across the four categories within ISIT, namely; IT Applications, Enterprise Software, Infrastructure & Cloud and ISIT Services.
Main tasks include:
Support the VP of ISIT Area in opportunity analysis within the categories and cross-category
Follow-up with Head of Categories on spend development and category performance
End-to-end responsible for quantitative analysis within the category regarding both the spend base and sourcing activities (baselining, Total Cost of Operations, evaluation models and criteria)
Responsible for all reporting requirements within the category, including spend under management, savings, target settings, pipeline planning, ensuring timely update of savings tracking system by category teams
Support the VP of ISIT Area in preparing for and conducting management meetings, e.g. MBR, Board meetings etc.
Profile & Qualifications
To succeed in this role it is believed that a deep understanding of strategy and analysis and performance within sourcing context is needed, in particular regarding Telecom ISIT categories. You will daily interact with numerous senior stakeholders across different markets in the Telenor Group. You therefore need to be a natural communicator and interact and facilitate a multi-functional stakeholder dialogue effectively and convincingly on complex matters.
Key attributes:
Result oriented, demonstrating excellent collaboration abilities
Proven ability to communicate and interact effectively on complex performance, strategy and analysis topics with senior stakeholders
High level of integrity and ethics
Qualification and Experience Requirements
3-7 years of experience either in strategy and analysis and performance management role or as strategic sourcing expert, preferably within the Telecom ISIT categories
Bachelor of degree in statistics, finance or equivalent. MBA will be preferred.
Broad experience with common data processing tools, e.g. advanced knowledge of Excel or MS Office, AI tools, etc.
This is a 7 months contract position with the possibility to extend till 12 months.
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