Director Procurement, Strategic Projects Network

Director Procurement, Strategic Projects Network

Telenor Group is world’s leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 158 million subscribers and annual sales of around USD9.34 billion (2022). 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 19,000 people strong.

Telenor Procurement Company (TPC), established in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, operates as a subsidiary of the Telenor Group. We deliver Procurement as a Service to Telenor’s Business Units and partially owned companies, taking full responsibility for the end-to-end Sourcing process and performance of global spend categories. We have enabled Telenor’s strategic ambitions by becoming a centre of expertise in the pursuit of efficient and sustainable operations.

In this role, you will be working at the heart of Telenor’s Global Procurement. For Procurement, Telenor has the ambition to develop Telenor Procurement Company (TPC) as a professional Procurement as a Service (PaaS) provider to customers within and outside Telenor organizations. You will be expected to drive strategic procurement initiatives, facilitate demand management, build sourcing strategy, and maintain relationships with key stakeholders of TPC PaaS customers.

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Organization and Reporting line

VP - Network

What you will do
- You will be a part of the Network Team which is one of TPC’s core procurement function.
- Even though you will be part of the Network team, you are expected to be involved in both Network related strategic procurement initiatives and strategic initiatives in other core procurement areas like ISIT, Markets & Indirect etc. for Procurement as a Service (PaaS) customers outside Telenor organization and within Telenor organization.
- As part of TPC, lead, support and oversee the execution of strategic procurement initiatives
- Own building relationship with PasS partners and Telenor stakeholders for the Procurement function and act as the TPC go-to person for key stakeholders in PasS partners for procurement related activity
- Jointly identify collaboration opportunities, along with other Telenor, Global Procurement and PasS partners functions.
- Prepare and participate in strategic and operational meetings related to strategic PaaS initiatives working across the Global Telenor, Global Procurement functions, regular engagement with senior management, CXO levels both at Telenor and PaaS customers
- Following expectations are specifically related to PasS partners:

- Lead and maintain PasS partners portfolio overview where Procurement is or will be involved
- Map and maintain comprehensive PasS partners related procurement engagements across the procurement function (Spends and Revenue footprints), closely track, measure and assess Partnership performance & operational readiness, and provide feedback. During this process identify synergy areas between activities and continuously improve efficiency in the engagements.
- Conduct regular, standing meetings with both internal and external stakeholders at different levels of Seniority
- Play a crucial role to build company credibility, brand value and trust with customers
- Provide support and advice on customer relationship management processes, role clarity, goals alignment and collaboration models to ensure successful PasS partners execution
- Continuously improve existing processes, tools, and data for insights

We are fast moving, and the environment is dynamic thus there are likely to be changes in priorities, so we expect you to be flexible adjusting to new activities, i.e., it is very similar to working in management consulting or a transformation office.

Personal Profile

Have strong business knowledge in telecommunications landscape
- Wide and in-depth knowledge of Network Core function, processes and operations
- Detailed understanding of Contractual concepts and clauses and be able to correlate the contractual obligations with performance of scope of work
- Thorough knowledge and experience of Core consisting models, cost drivers, interaction of cost drivers and a logical way of deriving the TCO
- Has been a thorough sourcing professional with sourcing mindset and still maintaining a focus on operations and stakeholder interests as well
- Excellent negotiations skills with flexibility in approach while sticking to basic negotiation principles
- Strong analytical skills and negotiation experience
- Communicate and interact effectively (verbal, presentation, f