Category Manager

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 for CORE, Networks, you will be part of the TPC Networks Sourcing team and will report to the Director, Head of CORE Category. You will work closely with both corporate in Telenor and all of the Business Units. As the Category Manager you will be working closely with the Head of Category by contributing to the end to end Category management and strategy development, including sourcing execution, contract negotiation, as well as supplier management processes. Your role is pivotal in identifying and realizing cost saving initiatives that deliver real business value in the category across all of Telenor’s Business Units.

Main tasks include:

- Develop comprehensive understanding of the Networks category, contribute to end to end category strategy development and perform analysis to support category strategy work
- Collaborate with user departments for preparing and executing the strategy, innovative analysis and proactively addressing procurement needs
- Identify, lead and execute cost saving initiatives that deliver value in the procurement of goods and services for the company
- Prepare and lead TCO analysis during procurement processes and participate in negotiations
- Manage resources and stakeholders in a sourcing process
- Actively work with the Global Procurement Teams from different Business as a part of extended Category Team
- Implementation of category sourcing strategy and skilled approach to vendor management
- Work together with the user Teams and responsible for Demand & Portfolio Management for the entire Category
- Ensure compliance with policies, processes and achieve targets
- Measures to review and assess progress, savings, and targets
- Develop and prepare periodic reports on all procurement activities
- Ensure contract management, implementation and follow-up activities
- Evaluate and standardize contract requirements across Telenor Business Units;
- Understand supply market and perform thorough supplier prequalification for the category
- Post contract management activities
- Manage contracts and price book relevant to the category
- Handle dispute with global suppliers

**Profile**

To be successful in this role you should be a seasoned professional eager to develop yourself in strategic sourcing. You should have an experience in strategic sourcing and contract management.
- Strong business knowledge in telecommunications landscape
- Deep insight into end to end Sourcing process and strategies.
- Strong ability to communicate and interact effectively across organizational and cultural boundaries, internal and external
- Result oriented, demonstrating excellent collaboration abilities
- Able to work with a high degree of execution power and passion
- Understand the vendor market
- Strong analytical, systems thinking and problem solving capabilities
- Demonstrate commitment, maturity, flexibility and speed in response to business and challenges
- Possess Commercial and negotiation skills
- Highly creative and innovate mindset
- Knowledge of sourcing techniques and demand management & demand forecasting methods
- Familiar with contract setup activities such as specification definition, contract T&C setup
- High level of integrity and ethics

**Qualification and Experience Requirements**:

- Bachelor degree in Technology, Finance or Business or equivalent. MBA will be preferred.
- Minimum 5 years in a procurement / contract management / vendor management role preferably with experience in Networks area
- Proficient in use of MS Excel, performing data analyses and co-relation using and processing tools, e.g. ThinkCell., Excel or Tableau to be Able to produce and draw conclusions