Category Manager, Tower Infra Category

Telenor Group is a leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 188 million customers. 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 16,000 people strong.
Telenor Procurement Company (TPC), established in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, operates as a subsidiary of the Telenor Group. We deliver Global Category Management as a service to the Telenor Business Units, 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.
About the role
As the Category Manager you will be part of the Networks team and you will report to the Head of Tower Infra Category. You will work closely with both Telenor Group Functions and all of the business units. The objective of this position is to perform end-to-end category management to support overall group category strategy and demand management. As the Category Manager you will be responsible for handling the category's end to end sourcing strategy. The successful candidate will be able to appraise and improve our sourcing activities by analyzing the company's spending, creating local and international spend benchmark, develop vendors s and new possibilities, including sourcing execution, contract negotiation, contract management, financial analysis as well as supplier management processes.
Main tasks include :
• Manage the category's portfolio ensuring transparency of spending
• Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies
• Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure
• Bring Innovation in negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals for Telenor
• Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency
• Cooperate with stakeholders to secure agreement on terms and processes
• Estimate risks and apply risk mitigation techniques
• Oversee effective implementation of category contracts
• Perform financial analysis, benchmarking analysis
• Foresee business risks related to role, highlighting to leadership and work towards mitigating risks in best manner
Profile
To be a successful candidate in this role it is believed that you should be an experienced professional eager to develop yourself within strategic sourcing. You should have an academic understanding of strategic sourcing and category management. The successful candidate should enjoy and be proficient in contract negotiations, networking and stakeholder management, financial analysis. Furthermore, the successful candidate must be result oriented, demonstrating excellent collaboration abilities, work independently with confidence and able to effectively communicate both internally and externally
Other attributes will be:
- Strong business knowledge in telecommunications landscape
- 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
- Able to work with a high degree of execution power within given time frame and passion for business
- Knowledge of sourcing techniques and demand management & demand forecasting methods
- Familiar with contract setup activities such as specification definition, contract T&C setup
- Demonstrate commitment, maturity, flexibility and speed in response to challenges
- Highly creative and innovative mindset
- High level of integrity and ethics
Qualification and Experience Requirements
• Proven work experience as a sourcing category manager with at least 2 years experience in managing construction of Tower sites and Tower lease contracts.
• Bachelor of Science /Technical degree or post graduate degree in supply chain management, telecommunication or business administration.
• Familiarity with sourcing and contract management and relevant software
• Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement
• Strong project management and leadership skills
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data
• Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions
• Contract management experience with well conversant with legal, commercial and contractual implication of clauses.

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