Telenor Group is world’s leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 158 million subscribers and annual sales of around NOK 99 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 14,000 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.
For more information, please visit our website : https://www.telenor.com/about/our-companies/other-units/telenor-procurement-company/
About the role
As a Senior Specialist, Logistics and Facility Management, you will report directly to Head of Logistics and Facility Management and be part of Markets & indirect area team. Your daily interactions in addition to your own team will be different departments of Telenor procurement company (TPC), Telenor’s corporate functions, TPC customer for Procurement as a Service (PaaS), Telenor business units as well as suppliers as needed. The Logistics and Facility Management domain includes sub-categories such as Transport & Freight, Warehousing, Postal Services, Office Property Rent, Security Equipment & Services, Renovation & Maintenance, Office Supplies, Device Insurance, Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA) etc.
What you will do
• Support and implement category strategies to optimize business efficiency for Logistics and Facility Management categories.
• Identify and realize cost saving initiatives in the procurement of goods and services.
• Identify, analyze, and develop vendor markets.
• Manage and execute the Telenor Sourcing process for identified procurement initiatives.
• Manage contracts and price book relevant to the respective category
• Drive and manage procurement initiatives portfolio and procurement demand pipeline.
• Ensure contract compliance with policies and achieve targets
• Establish measures to assess progress, savings, and KPIs
• Manage internal and external stakeholders
• Develop and prepare periodic reports on all procurement activities
• Follow-up the PaaS customers and Telenor Business Units on contract management requirements
• Maintain and aware of relevant and latest sourcing and procurement guidelines
Profile
To succeed in this role, a deep understanding strategic procurement with sufficient understanding of the Logistics and Facility Management categories is required. A broader understanding of the telecom industry is beneficial. You need to have an academic understanding of strategic sourcing and category management. Candidate must be result oriented, demonstrating excellent collaboration abilities and be able to communicate both internally and externally and continually build new relationships.
Other attributes will be:
· Strong ability to communicate and interact effectively (verbal, presentation, facilitation & listening modes of communication) across organizational and cultural boundaries, internal and external
· Actively participate in negotiations across the category management process
· Excellent analytical, systematic thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
· Excellence in execution and passion for business.
· Demonstrate commitment, maturity, flexibility and speed in response to challenges.
· Foresee business risks related to role, highlighting to leadership and work towards mitigating risks in best manner
· Highly customer centric, creative, goal oriented and innovative mindset
· Knowledge of sourcing techniques and demand management & demand forecasting methods
· Familiar with contract setup activities such as specification definition, contract T&C setup
· Able to adapt to Telenor culture and changing environment.
· High level of integrity and ethics
Competence Requirements
· A university degree, preferably within Business Administration, Finance, Supply Chain or equivalent
· Up to 3 - 5 years in strategic procurement / contract management / vendor management / negotiations / supply chain management role or as functional expert in the Logistics and Facility Management categories
· Solid experience and working in high performing multi-cultural teams
· Broad experience with Microsoft & other relevant tools, e.g. ThinkCell etc.
