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Telenor has significant TV & Entertainment operations across the Nordics, with more than a million customers across Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Telenor has a proud history of providing customers with products and services that meet their needs and demands, and one of the most crucial features for TV & Entertainment is the quality and spectrum of the content offered to our customers.
The role as Business Analyst & Content Acquisition Manager sits in the Nordic Content Acquisition & Negotiation team, which is responsible for ensuring that Telenor has an optimal content strategy across the Nordics and the best possible content available for relevant business units within Telenor.
We are looking for a strong candidate to become a valued member of a high-performing team of Content Acquisition Managers & negotiators spread across four different countries. The candidate will be involved from day one in helping the local TV product teams to offer even better products and services to our customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in content negotiations processes and distribution agreements for Telenor's partnership with content providers.
- Strongly contribute with business analysis within the Nordic Content Acquisition & Negotiation team.
- Act as key account manager towards relevant content partners.
- Develop and secure strong collaboration and transparency between Nordic Business Units.
- Develop best-in-class ways of working both towards Nordic Business Units and external partners.
- Participate in future TV business development from the content point of view.
- Actively challenge and support local Business Units on assessments related to content.
- Together with the local TV product teams, support in growing revenues and EBITDA through better content partnerships meeting the respective Business Units' local strategy.
Desired Skills and Experience
- A minimum of 2-3 years working experience.
- Knowledge of the media and content industry in the Nordics.
- Experience with business analysis and business development, preferably within the media industry and/or mobile industry.
- Experience with negotiations across internal departments and with external suppliers.
- Experience with partnership management.
- Experienced in working in a matrix and virtual organization.
- Be able to think strategically about a wide range of issues.
- Profound understanding and experience of the Nordic culture.
- Fluency in both written and spoken English is required. Knowledge of Nordic languages is considered beneficial.
- BSc or MSc degree in a relevant field, preferably in Economics, Marketing, Business Administration, or equivalent.
Personal qualities
- Ability to collaborate, organize and run cross-functional projects.
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills; experience of navigating complex stakeholder landscapes.
- Solution-oriented and able to find compromises, both internally and externally.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Ability to build constructive relationships with senior leaders.
- Calm and collected personality, able to perform well under pressure and tight deadlines.
Practical information
- For more information, please contact hiring manager Glenn Uthaug, VP Nordic Content Acquisition & Negotiations, mob +47 918 25 496, or Senior Recruitment Business Partner, Madeleine Lundquist, madeleine-lundquist@telenor.com
- Lats day of application is 31 March 2024.
- This position is preferably based at Telenor's office in Solna-Sweden, or alternatively Fornebu-Norway, Helsinki-Finland or København-Denmark.
- The position requires intermittently travel within the Nordic region.
- We run background checks on final candidates (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 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.
