Category Analyst, Core and Network Cloud

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.

Telenor is an equal opportunity employer and diversity is imperative to the way we do business. In addition to combatting discrimination, our goal is to build equal and inclusive environments that enable people to reach their full potential. To do this, we must raise awareness of the importance of diversity and inclusion in our workplaces and in society.

**About the Role**

As the Category Analyst you will be part of the TPC Networks Sourcing team and will report to the Category Director within Networks. You will work closely with Telenor Group functions and all of the Business Units. The objective of this position is to perform analysis to support category strategy, demand management, managing the category targets, analysing and using benchmarking tools actively to ensure category and business performance. 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**

Main tasks of Category Analyst will be to:

- Gathers, interprets, and uses complex data to develop meaningful insights and opportunities that assist in negotiations with Suppliers.
- Perform benchmarks across suppliers and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.
- Perform Sourcing diagnostics and assist in preparing and implementing the category strategy.
- Create and maintain database summarizing Purchase orders from Telenor Business units.
- Participate & execute sourcing projects at global level with participants from the Business Units ensuing a strong collaboration with the User departments to reduce the procurement cycle time.
- Develop and prepare periodic reports and analysis on all procurement activities.
- Identify and realize cost saving initiatives in the procurement of equipment and services
- Follow-up with the Business Units on contract management requirements, PO reporting, validations, and savings calculations.
- Participate in negotiations and ensure delivery of targets. Prepare financial comparisons of supplier bids in the RFQs.
- Maintain an awareness of relevant and latest Sourcing and Procurement guidelines.
- Identify, analyse, and develop vendor markets.
- Covering ad hoc requests to answer questions of stakeholders.

**Profile**

To be successful in this role you should be a professional eager to develop yourself within strategic sourcing. You should have an academic understanding of strategic sourcing and category management as well as spend analysis.

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

- Have strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Be proficient in using analytical tools such as MS Excel, Power BI, Thinkcell, MS Access etc. and be open minded to explore new tools and techniques.
- Be fluent in preparing and presenting analysis and benchmarks in a crisp and understandable way.
- Modelling pricing structure, normalize and negotiate during sourcing process.
- Knowledgeable about Baselining, calculating TCO, NPV and other savings methodologies.
- Business knowledge in telecommunications landscape.
- Insight into end-to-end Sourcing process.
- Strong ability to communicate and interact effectively (verbal, presentation, facilitation & listening modes of communication) 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.
- Demonstrate commitment, maturity, flexibility and speed in response to business and challenges.
- Possess Commercial and negotiation skill