Sourcing & Vendor Performance Lead

GlobalConnect; Oslo; Hybrid; NOK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalConnect is seeking a Sourcing & Vendor Performance Lead to drive a Nordic approach to supplier management across Delivery & Access Lines. You will create transparency, improve performance and balance internal capabilities with external partners.

You will work across countries, aligning procurement, delivery management and finance to deliver measurable savings, quality improvements, and seamless supplier governance. Fluency in English; Scandinavian skills are a plus.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in strategic sourcing and vendor management.
• Proven track record with make-or-buy decisions and delivery-model changes.
• Strong experience with contracts, pricing models, SLAs, tenders and negotiations.
• Ability to connect commercial terms with operational performance and cost drivers.

Responsibilities

• Drive a Nordic sourcing strategy across Nordic Underlay Delivery & Line Management.
• Participate in procurement processes with operational requirements, volumes and performance data.
• Lead implementation and transition of new sourcing models while protecting production and knowledge.
• Build transparency by comparing contracts, capacity, costs and performance across countries.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Vendor management

Supplier performance

Make-or-buy decisions

Contracts & SLAs

Cost-driver analysis

Benchmarking

Business case development

Job description

Do you want to shape how sourcing decisions translate into measurable operational performance across the Nordics?

As Sourcing & Vendor Performance Lead, you will drive a common approach to sourcing and supplier performance across the Nordic Underlay Delivery & Access Lines organisation. Your focus will be on creating transparency, improving supplier performance and finding the right balance between internal capabilities, nearshore capacity and external partners.

What You Need To Succeed

• Solid experience in strategic sourcing, vendor management or supplier performance, combined with hands-on experience managing external suppliers in a production or delivery environment.
• Documented experience with make-or-buy decisions and changes to delivery models, including insourcing, outsourcing, nearshoring or comparable initiatives.
• Strong experience with contracts, pricing models, SLAs and commercial mechanisms, including tenders, negotiations and implementation in collaboration with Procurement.
• Strong analytical experience with cost-driver analysis, benchmarking and business cases, and the ability to connect commercial terms with operational performance.

About The Role And The Team

This is a Nordic role working across countries and functions. You will be a part of the Strategic Transformation and Operational Excellence team in Nordic Underlay Delivery & Access Lines.

You will connect operational needs with sourcing decisions and supplier agreements, working closely with Procurement, local delivery management, Finance and other key stakeholders.

You will own the operational sourcing strategy and the common approach to vendor performance. Procurement is responsible for formal tenders, commercial negotiations and contracts. Local, while local delivery management will manage daily production and supplier activities. Your role is to bring these perspectives together, create common standards and ensure that sourcing choices lead to tangible operational improvements.

What You’ll Be Working On

• Drive a Nordic sourcing strategy across Nordic Underlay Delivery & Line Management, including supplier segmentation and make-or-buy analyses.
• Participate in Procurement processes with operational requirements, volumes, cost drivers and performance data for tenders and renegotiations.
• Lead the operational implementation and transition of new sourcing models while protecting production, quality and critical knowledge, and follow up on realised benefits.
• Build transparency across the supplier landscape by comparing contracts, capacity, competencies, costs and performance across countries and suppliers.
• Drive structured supplier governance, performance reviews and improvement or escalation plans when performance falls short.

Who You Are

You combine commercial judgement with a strong understanding of operational delivery. You are analytical and structured, but also pragmatic enough to turn analysis and agreements into action.

You are comfortable challenging established supplier setups constructively and navigating different interests across countries and functions. You know how to negotiate while maintaining important supplier relationships, and you follow through on agreements, performance improvements and expected benefits.

Experience from telecom, infrastructure, contracting, construction or another technical delivery environment would be valuable. Fluent English is important, and Scandinavian language skills are an advantage.

Our recruitment process

• Talent Acquisition Screening interview
• Hiring Manager interview
• Personality and ability tests feedback and discussion with Talent Acquisition
• Case interview with Hiring Manager and peer/stakeholder
• Final alignment meeting
• References

Practical information

• The role can be based in Stockholm, Copenhagen or Fornebu.
• The role follows GlobalConnect's standard setup of at least 3 days per week in the office.
• GlobalConnect does not offer relocation packages or work visa sponsorship for this role.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a Nordic sourcing and vendor performance agenda with direct impact on cost, productivity, quality and delivery performance.

About Us

GlobalConnect is one of the leading connectivity providers in Northern Europe. We're 2000 passionate and talented individuals who want to make a difference, turning our customers' visions into reality through connectivity. Our goal is to create the best possible conditions for engaged employees, a place where you can develop and grow, and create unforgettable memories and enjoyable experiences.

We have helped develop and digitize societies across the Nordics for more than two decades. Our purpose is what drives us to continue - turning visions into reality by empowering society with connectivity.