VP Nordic IT Strategy & Transformation

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 digitalisation and modernisation of private and public sector services and a central part of the green shift.

Telenor Nordics’ ambition is to be the leading Nordic provider of both high-quality connectivity services as well as digital services beyond connectivity. As a leader in driving new services, we also see ourselves as the leader in modernising 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.

The role

The VP Nordic IT Strategy and Transformation is responsible for aligning the Nordic IT Strategy & Roadmap with BU-level business & IT strategies, planning implementation and targets for strategic Nordic IT initiatives and supporting the leaders of Pan Nordic Center of Excellences and programs executing the transformation into Nordic operation. The role includes the responsibility, together with the CIOs at the BUs, for rationalizing cost, streamlining operations and improving the operational efficiency of Telenor’s IT operations in the Nordic.

Main target is supporting the Nordic transformation agenda through activities agreed by Nordic Management Team and establish the transformation role for IT, roadmap planning and operating model for Center of Excellences in close co-operation with Nordic IT Operating Model development.

Responsibilities:

• Strongly support the Nordic CIO Management Team in the development and implementation of the Nordics IT strategic plans based on the needs at the BUs and ambitions of the Nordic Management Team ensuring that the IT capabilities and plans are responsive to the growth, synergy and efficiency objectives in the Nordics.

• Provide leadership, governance and support as the owner of the IT transformation agenda for IT transformation in the Nordics in terms of planning, managing, and following up the execution of the agreed roadmap together with the BU CIOs, Excellence Center Leaders, Nordic IT Enterprise Architecture, Procurement and other key stakeholders.

• Enable efficient cross-country collaboration, resource sharing, learning, execution and communication through Virtual Center of Excellences and other efficient and agile organisation structures and ways of working.

• Ensure alignment across the Nordics and be a critical driver and ambassador on cross-country collaboration with strong efficiency, simplification and cost mindset.

• Tasks; Contribute to the development and implementation of the Nordics IT strategic plans based on the needs at the BUs and ambitions of the Nordic Management Team ensuring that that the IT capabilities and plans are responsive to the growth, synergy and efficiency objectives in the Nordics.

• Define and lead the development & maintenance of the Nordic IT Transformation Roadmap, and the practices and processes around it, in close co-operation with the Business Units, Nordic IT Enterprise architecture Team and other key stakeholders.

• Provide leadership and governance to a team of Virtual Excellence Center Leads / Program Managers who are executing the Nordic IT Roadmap.

• Enable efficient cross-country collaboration, resource sharing, learning, execution and communication through Virtual Center of Excellences and other efficient organisation structures and ways of working.

Experience and qualifications:

• Extensive global or international leadership experience in managing multiple, large cross-functional teams or programs.

• Recent IT transformation experience from the Norwegian, Danish, Swedish or Finnish telco market is merited.

• Extensive experience in leading managers in complex delivery environments by using and scaling operations with agile way of working.

• Extensive experience from telco business operations - preferably across several domains (B2C business, B2B business, IT, NW).

• Strong practical experience with business ecosystems, personalized customer value creation, data enrichment solutions, analytical solutions, data integrations and data governance.

• Strong BU operational experience across several domains.

• Experience from processes requiring change management skills, including relevant, sound and consistent communication.

• Extensive experience in creating compelling decision material including presentations that translates Tech/IT story to different audiences, including executive level.

• Extensive experience in working with different teams - project/line/hybrid. Able to work with team members in different locations.

• Ability to think radical but realistic manner and drive new modern operating models in telco (B2C and B2B) environment is merited.

• Holds a university degree within Computer Science or Business and Management.

• Excellent verbal and written English is required, plus one Nordic language is preferred.

Personality skills:

• Collaborative - ability to work and build relationships across cultures, functional domains, different organizational entities.

• Self-driven - takes initiatives and drives through. Seek clarity where there might be gaps from the start.

• Responsible and reliable - delivers as agreed in terms of time and quality.

• Able to communicate effectively - both verbally and in writing, with different audience, including executive levels in BU and Group.

• High work capacity - work effectively and efficiently, with attendance to details.

• Solution-oriented: able to identity problem to solve and work out solutions in a collaborative way.

• Ability to organize and arrange small or big events, plan project activities, bring in right resources, execute and make things happen.

• Willing to learn, commit to systematic competence development.

• Analytical, systematic and structured approach - both in improving current processes but also when embarking on new tasks.

• Good organizational understanding - formal and informal structures.

• Be a Telenor ambassador: Always ask - what is best for Telenor?

If you're ready to take on this exciting opportunity, apply now and join our team!

If you want to know more about the position, please contact hiring manager Janne Aalto, [email protected]

You are very welcome to apply for the position on the link on this page. We would love to hear from you no later than 10 September 2023. We will be conducting ongoing interviews as applications come in.

Location for this role is Fornebu, Oslo or one of the other Nordic locations. You should already be living and working in the Nordics.