Delivering great products and winning customers in the Nordic market!

Director Nordic Customer, Commercial and Strategic Projects

Delivering great products and winning customers in the Nordic market!

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role in the Nordic region utilizing agile working practices to solve challenging customer, commercial and strategic projects? Do you want to be part of a dynamic and collaborative team that drives value creation for our business units and customers? Then this might be the opportunity for you!

We are currently hiring a new Director to join our team of experienced and driven professionals in Telenor Nordics Customer and Commercial. The team is responsible for leveraging Telenor regional strength to create great products, deliver great customer experience and win customers.

As the new Director in the Nordics Customer & Commercial team, you will work on the most important commercial topics in the Nordics as prioritized by the Nordic Management Team, with responsibility for identifying, scoping, and driving commercial collaboration projects across our four Nordic companies Telenor Norway, Telenor Sweden, Telenor Denmark and DNA in Finland.

Some of your main responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing operating models to exploit Nordic scale across our four Nordic markets.
• Strengthening Telenor’s value proposition and business performance in the four Nordic markets through execution of commercially focused projects.
• Pursuing M&A and/or strategic partnership initiatives that are relevant to achieving the objectives above.
• Driving engagement and execution of the project initiatives together with teams in the Nordic organization, our four local country organizations, and other stakeholders across Telenor Group.
• Building and maintaining a strong network in the local markets and monitoring market developments.

Preferred experience and qualifications:

• 3-10 years from working within strategic analysis, business development, or equivalent roles at a consulting firm, investment bank or in an internal corporate function.
• Experience working at the interface of commercial and technology.
• Experience of navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and ability to lead by influencing a diverse group and at different levels in the organization (senior executives, managers, and subject matter experts).
• Proven track record of organizing and running complex cross-functional and multi-cultural projects.
• Excellent verbal and written English are required, plus one Nordic language is preferred.
• Master’s degree, preferably within business, mathematics, engineering, or similar numerical subject is preferred.
• Experience in a multi-cultural environment; having worked in two or more countries is a plus.
• Recent operational experience from the Norwegian, Danish, Swedish or Finnish telco market is a plus.

We believe you will succeed and thrive best in this role if you:

• have strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• are structured and systematic; ability to plan, make clear prioritizations and allocate time and resources efficiently.
• have strong analytical problem-solving skills.
• work independently and have a strong drive.

So, if you like a complex and exciting challenge, working in a dynamic and multi-national team environment, this could be a job for you!

Useful to know:

• Application deadline: 26th May 2024.
• For questions regarding this position, please contact VPs in Nordic Customer & Commercial Robert Findlay, mob. +47 917 49 072 or Anders Aamand, mob. +45 60506509, or Snr. Recruitment Business Partner, Vibeke Bjerknes, mob. +47 986 45 381.
• The position can work from Fornebu where most of the Nordic management team sits, or work from one of our offices in Denmark, Finland, or Sweden travelling to Fornebu for meetings when necessary and relevant.
• We conduct background check on the relevant candidate through Semac.

About Telenor Nordics

Telenor Nordics serves 10 million customers and society at large in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway with services vital for our everyday digital life. Digital services provided on top of our fiber or 4G/5G mobile connectivity services are supporting the continued digitalization and modernization of private and public sector services and are a central part of the green shift.

Telenor Nordics’ ambition is to be the leading Nordic provider of both high-quality connectivity services and digital services beyond connectivity. As a leader in driving new services, we also see ourselves as the leader in modernizing our technology domain through sunsetting of legacy technology, through new ways of working and exploring new and extensive partnerships. Even though our customers’ needs are similar across the Nordics, our markets, competition, and positions are different, and we therefore always leverage the local BU strengths in our go to market. As part of the Telenor Nordics team, you will be working in cross functional teams closely integrated with colleagues from our business units across the Nordics.