Category Manager, Handsets

Telenor; Bærum; Hybride; NOK 900 000 - 1 200 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Wellness grant

Health insurance

Occupational pension

Employee share program

Flexible hours

Work from home

Résumé du poste

Telenor Group is seeking a procurement professional to contribute to sourcing activities, supplier management, negotiations, and value creation across the Handsets category. You will build supplier, market, and category insights and support strategic recommendations in collaboration with stakeholders across Telenor's markets.

You are analytical, proactive, and comfortable leading or supporting sourcing projects, contract negotiations, and supplier performance reviews.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in procurement, category management, strategic sourcing, supplier management, commercial management, telecommunications, consumer electronics, devices, analytics, or related fields.
• Commercial and analytical capabilities, from structured analysis to independent sourcing leadership, negotiations, and category recommendations.
• Ability to collaborate across functions, countries, and stakeholder groups with ownership and communication responsibility.
• Interest in device ecosystems, smartphones, wearables, accessories, supplier markets, and commercial strategy.
• Relevant higher education within business administration, economics, finance, engineering, procurement, technology, or related field; relevant experience may compensate for formal education.

Responsabilités

• Contribute to sourcing activities, supplier management, negotiations, and value creation across the Handsets category.
• Build supplier, market, and category insights, from analytical support and data preparation to strategic recommendations and category input.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and suppliers across Telenor's markets, responsible for stakeholder dialogue, supplier follow-up, and commercial initiatives.
• Support, drive, or lead sourcing projects, contract negotiations, supplier performance reviews, and business cases from defined workstreams to complex category initiatives.

Connaissances

Procurement experience

Category management

Strategic sourcing

Supplier management

Commercial management

Analytics

Formation

Relevant degree in business/engineering/finance/procurement

Description du poste

What you'll work on

• Contribute to sourcing activities, supplier management, negotiations, and value creation across the Handsets category.
• Build supplier, market, and category insights, from analytical support and data preparation to strategic recommendations and category input.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and suppliers across Telenor's markets, with responsibility for stakeholder dialogue, supplier follow-up, and commercial initiatives.
• Support, drive, or lead sourcing projects, contract negotiations, supplier performance reviews, and business cases, from defined workstreams to complex category initiatives.

What we're looking for

• Relevant experience in procurement, category management, strategic sourcing, supplier management, commercial management, telecommunications, consumer electronics, devices, analytics, or related fields.
• Commercial and analytical capabilities, ranging from structured analysis and problem-solving to independent sourcing leadership, negotiations, and category recommendations.
• Ability to collaborate across functions, countries, and stakeholder groups, with stakeholder ownership and communication responsibility.
• Interest in device ecosystems, smartphones, wearables, accessories, supplier markets, and commercial strategy. Experience with handset manufacturers, device portfolios, consumer electronics, or telecommunications is an advantage.
• Relevant higher education within business administration, economics, finance, engineering, procurement, technology, or a related field. Relevant experience may compensate for formal education.

Who you are

You are analytical, proactive, and motivated by solving complex challenges. You combine commercial understanding with curiosity for technology and supplier markets. You may be earlier in your career or bring more senior category experience, but you enjoy working with stakeholders, taking ownership at the right level, and turning opportunities into tangible business results.

Why join us?

• You will be part of a large, multicultural and competent procurement team.
• You will cooperate with key stakeholders in Telenor business units in Nordics and Asia including Telenor Group functions.
• Flexible working hours and opportunities to work from home.
• A generous health and benefit package with for example wellness grant, health insurance, occupational pension and much more.
• Development programs to deepen your knowledge and broaden the competence.
• Employee share program.

Other important information

• Location: Fornebu, Norway.
• Application deadline: Final deadline November 17th 2026.
• Application and CV should be written in English, interviews and other dialogue regarding the process will also be in English.
• Contact person: Category Director, Handsets, Jesse Kieksi ([phone]).
• We conduct background checks on relevant candidates through Semac.

About Telenor and Telenor Procurement

Telenor Group is a leading telecom company across the Nordics and Asia with 164 million customers and annual sales of NOK 77 billion (2025). We are committed to responsible business conduct and driven by the ambition of empowering societies. Telenor holds a leading Nordic position in mobile, broadband, and TV services, and has significant operations in Asia through subsidiaries and joint ventures, including mobile financial services and online classifieds. Across Telenor Group, we are around 10,000 colleagues worldwide. As part of Telenor Procurement, you will work in closely integrated teams alongside colleagues from our business units and group functions, connecting Telenor's business requirements with the supplier market through the sourcing of goods and services. As a centre of expertise, we help deliver Telenor's strategic ambitions by maximizing value creation across the supplier market.