Roaming Business Manager in Telenor

Are you a result driven person motivated to optimize our wholesale roaming business?


Global Wholesale is the international communication provider of the Telenor Group. We deliver high quality interconnect solutions within Voice, Roaming, Connectivity and Digital services; Connecting you to what matters most. Our corporate office is located in Oslo, Norway, and we have sales presence in nine additional locations worldwide: Stockholm, Karlskrona, Copenhagen, , Belgrade, Dubai, Islamabad and Singapore.


We are now looking for a Wholesale Roaming Business Manager to join our Roaming Business Management & Negotiations team in Karlskrona in Sweden. The main responsibility for this team is to develop and support the wholesale roaming P&L for the Business Units in Telenor Group. In this role, you will be the appointed Business Manager for some of our mobile service providers in the Telenor Group. Your main responsibility will be to optimize the Wholesale Roaming Business and to influence and support the retail roaming activities and strategies initiated in those Business Units you are responsible for. You will be responsible for aligning expectations and agree targets with the Business Units, and attend monthly tactical meetings together with the Business Units in order to report status on the targets. You will also be responsible to set and follow up targets for the Roaming negotiators, who will do the negotiations towards the roaming partners


Are you a result driven person and motivated to contribute to a winning team through living our values Always Explore, Create Together, Be Respectful, and Keep Promises, then we would like to hear from you!


Essential duties and responsibilities
Optimization of the regional Wholesale Roaming Business
Identify and prioritize initiatives for the regional Wholesale market
Set Business Unit targets in cooperation with the regional Business Units
Provide analysis support of retail initiatives
Approve discount deals negotiated by the roaming negotiators
Distribute the outbound traffic to ensure efficient utilization of the various deals and optimize the cost for the Business Unit and Telenor Group
Discount deal- and forecast handling in our Business Intelligence System
Reporting unit cost plus revenue to Business Units based on our Business Intelligence System
Maintain analysis, targets and business plan reports
Provide input to development of traffic forecasting model
Set regional goals in cooperation with the negotiators



Preferred qualifications
Bachelor's/Postgraduate Degree in Economy or related fields
Minimum 5 years of experience from Business Management
Experience from working with Roaming services and/or relations
Experience from Roaming negotiations
Experience from working with virtual teams
Experience from working with analysis of relatively large quantity of data
Experienced in working with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word)



Who you are
You have a forward leaning and commercial mindset with a willingness to continuously learn and improve
You are comfortable with initiating and driving your area forward
You are a team player (you actively seek help, and also provide assistance to your colleagues)
You are structured and thorough
You are interested in meeting people and have good communication skills
You are sensitive to various cultures and able to work in an international environment



Why join Telenor?
Be part of a large, international organization that goes beyond customers – we want to play an important role in the societies we serve
Be part of a proactive international team of highly competent and engaged people
Opportunity to work closely with Product Development and Business Management and develop a strong business understanding
Work and life go hand-in-hand, and at Telenor we believe in a balance. We like to have fun at work and we’re firm believers in the power of teamwork
We believe that diverse voices lead to more profound conversations, solutions and results. We are committed to our equal opportunity policy at every selection stage



Good to know
The position will involve some traveling
The position is located in Karlskrona, Sweden, or other GW location can be considered
Application deadline: 8 November 2020
We do background check on relevant candidates through Semac AS


Telenor Group is a leading telecommunications company across Scandinavia and Asia with 173 million customers and annual sales of around USD 14 billion (2017). We hold #1 or #2 positions in most of our markets. Majority ownership of all core assets enables strong governance and global scale benefits. 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 is listed at Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TEL. For more information, see www.telenor.com


Global Wholesale is the international wholesale business unit of the Telenor Group. The business unit provides international voice, roaming solutions and connectivity services to external and internal customers. The business unit comprises all operations of Telenor Global Services AS as well as the Global Wholesale Roaming functions for all Telenor companies. For more information about Global Wholesale please visit www.telenor.com/globalwholesale