Category Analyst – IT Applications (6 months contract)

Telenor Academy; Singapore; On-site; SGD 39,060 - 61,380; Full time

Job summary

Telenor Procurement Company (TPC), based in Singapore, invites a Category Analyst for IT Applications on a 6‑month contract. You will support global datacenter and cloud sourcing, focusing on cost analysis, demand planning and negotiations with vendors.

Proficiency in Excel, PowerBI and Python (Pandas) is valued, as are strong communication and project management skills. 3–5 years of relevant experience and a background in economics/statistics/math or programming is preferred.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of work experience
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Bachelor/Master level education with at least some subjects within economics, statistics, math or programming/modelling.

Responsibilities

• Price analysis and cost modelling for global categories.
• Demand planning with regular follow-ups of function/budget owners.
• Supporting RFQs and negotiations with global vendors.

Skills

Price analysis

Cost modelling

Demand planning

English

Communication

Project management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor/Master level education with economics/statistics/math or programming/modelling

Tools

Excel

PowerBI

Pandas (Python)

Job description

Category Analyst – IT Applications (6 months contract)

Telenor Procurement Company

Singapore , Singapore

ISIT

About The Position

Telenor Group is the world’s leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 211 million subscribers and 81 billion NOK in revenues. 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.

Telenor has 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 11,000 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

The Role

IT Applications is a global, centralized category management function. The team manages a common global sourcing function for datacenter- and campus- infrastructure for the Telenor Group. This includes physical assets such as servers, networking and storage systems, as well as public cloud services. The team runs a wide array of global initiatives including RFPs, cost optimization, quality improvement, planning, strategies and company-to-company negotiations.

As An Analyst You Will Be Directly Responsible For

• Price analysis and cost modelling
• Demand planning with regular follow-ups of function/ budget owners
• Supporting RFQs and negotiations with global vendors

The job also entails supporting the team with other tasks including strategy development and implementation. Consequently, you must have good communication skills and enjoy collaborating with others in a large, diverse and international company.

Profile

The right candidate must be detail oriented, analytical, have project management skills, an explorative mindset and strong communication skills. You must be comfortable and precise in handling large amounts of data. You should have a grip on key tools such as Excel, PowerBI, Pandas (Python). You need to be resilient and be able to work well under pressure.

You should have an academic understanding of relevant business subjects (e.g. procurement, supply chain) or relevant technology subjects (e.g. applications, Cloud services, End-user-compute product., AI/ML). Direct experience with the subject matter will be a plus but is not a strict requirement.

We Believe That a Strong Candidate Has

• 3-5 years of work experience
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Bachelor/master level education with at least some subjects within economics, statistics, math or programming/modelling.

The role can be somewhat adapted to the experience level and ambition of the candidate. We do believe, however, that a candidate that has fewer years of experience and who is eager to develop within analysis, business and strategic sourcing will be a great match for the position.

This is a 6 months contract role with the possibility to extend till 12 months.