Stillingstittel: Vendor Account Manager (Ref.nr. 2939147922)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
Telenor Global Shared Services AS (GSS) is Telenor’s internal provider of business support, primarily within Finance, Human Resources and IT. GSS creates value through economies of scale and standardization and improvement of services and processes for Telenor Group's business units. GSS’ mission is to deliver efficient business support that makes work easier for more than 33.000 Telenor employees around the world.GSS deliver services from locations in Norway, Pakistan and Malaysia in addition to managing deliveries made by partners in Europe and Asia.Vendor Account Manager - Telenor Global Shared Services

The Sourcing and Vendor Management team in Telenor Global Shared Services (GSS) is responsible for all commercial processes towards GSS’ vendors, as well as the overall responsibility for contract management. In addition the legal counsel is a part of the team. The main objective for the team is to secure GSS’ strategical and tactical goals through contracted deliverables The team is split in a sourcing team, and contract management team. Currently, a project is implementing a new contract management framework across the GSS organization to further improve the handling of the contracted values of GSS. We are now recruiting a key position in the Sourcing and Vendor management team: VENDOR ACCOUNT MANAGER

Job description

• Manage strategic vendor relationship(s), incl. identify new sourcing opportunities
• Develop and manage strategic and tactic vendor plans.
• Contribute in continuous improvement of the Contract Management framework in Telenor Global Shared Service
• Provide commercial analysis on vendors’ charges to support vendor performance review in
• functional units, and evaluate penalties/ service credits.
• Build and maintain strong relationship with the functional units in order to obtain
• critical knowledge of the units' needs and expectations regarding the sourced services
• Establish and maintain governance structures to ensure and drive vendor performance
• Mediate and drive resolution of disputes.
• Monitor overall and commercial contractual obligations, and support functional operational teams in obligation tracking.
• Vendor benchmarking
• Some travel to GSS delivery centers, vendor locations, or Telenor’s business units is expected.
• Vendor Account Manager will be reporting to CPO & Head of Sourcing and Vendor Management

Qualifications

• Experience within sourcing/procurement activities, negotiations, contract management or commercial relations with service providers, preferably in an offshoring setup.
• Experience as Vendor Manager/Contract Manager or similar positions within shared service or service delivery organizations.
• Experience with measuring and analysis of vendor performance (market data, suppliers, financial data, etc.)
• Cross-cultural experience, preferably in Europe and Asia.

Education field

• Finance/Economics
• Administration / Management

Education level

• College/University (Master's degree)
• College/University (diploma/Bachelor's degree)

Personal qualities

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong relationship management and dispute management capabilities
• Strong commercial mindset.
• Strong analytical and problem solving capability
• Analytic and business oriented
• Capabilities to do present commercial matters to top management, and operational teams.
• Structured – with high working capacity

Language

• English

We offer

• A great opportunity to be part of Telenor’
  
  Minstelønn: 0
  
  Maksimal lønn: 0
  
  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Telenor Global Shared Services
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: 1331 FORNEBU
  
  Job kort beskrivelse:
  Professional services managers not elsewhere classified
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Akershus
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
  Lønn valuta: NOK
  
  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
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