Sourcing Specialist, Marketing Services

-Company
Telenor Group
Singapore 307591, Singapore
Category
Corporate functions
Type
Full Time

**About the position**:
Telenor Group is a leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 172 million customers and annual sales of around NOK 110 billion (2021) 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**

The role as Specialist Marketing and Digital Services reports to the Category Manager - Marketing and Digital Services and will be part of the team which is responsible for the spend base, vendors and partners within the Marketing services area, as well as the interactions with the stakeholders within Telenor Group and Telenor’s local Business Units in Asia and Europe.

**Main tasks**
- Contribute to the Category strategy for the Marketing and Digital services area
- Perform market and industry analysis to support category strategy
- Contribute in developing and execute on negotiation strategies towards the vendor market
- Contribute on the savings KPI’s as defined for the Marketing and Digital Services category
- Collaborate with user departments to reduce the sourcing process cycle time, improve planning, and
- ensure compliance with policies in order to achieve targets.
- Prepare periodic reports on sourcing activities for the category.
- Maintain an awareness of latest procurement methodology theories
- Support development and implementation of category negotiation and sourcing strategy

**Profile**

To be successful in this role it is believed that you should be a professional eager to develop yourself within strategic sourcing. You should have an academic understanding of strategic sourcing and marketing services and customer care.

To enjoy this role and succeed in it you would need to be/have:

- Strong business knowledge in telecommunications landscape
- Foresee business risks related to role, highlighting to leadership and work towards mitigating risks in best manner
- Strong knowledge of sourcing and procurement methodologies and concepts in the media and advertising industry
- Knowledge of sourcing techniques and demand management
- Knowledge of strategic sourcing techniques
- Strong analytical & systems thinking capabilities
- Knowledge and experience in stakeholders and agency relationship management
- Highly creative and innovative problem-solving mindset
- International project and process management knowledge and experience is an added advantage
- Strong ability to communicate and interact effectively (verbal, presentation, facilitation & listening modes of communication) across organizational and cultural boundaries, internal and external
- Action oriented and solution minded team player with high degree of self-management, able to work with a high degree of execution power and passion
- Broad experience with common data processing tools, e.g. Excel or Tableau
- Result oriented, demonstrating excellent collaboration abilities
- Demonstrate commitment, maturity, flexibility and speed in response to business and challenges
- Commercial and negotiation skills

**Qualifications & Experience Requirements**
- University degree, preferably within business administration, marketing, economics, finance procurement
- Experience:

- At least 2-5 years of experience within media procurement or within the advertising industry
- Application of procurement best practices and supplier negotiation at executive level will be an added advantage
- Experience from industry platforms, such as MRM platforms, DBM, GA360, Adobe, Sitecore, Adform, Adwords is a plus
- Experience with SEO and/or ASO and SEM is a plus