Are you ready to play a key role in shaping the future workforce of a leading Nordic organization? Do you thrive in a strategic role where data-driven decision-making and workforce analytics drive real business impact? If you are passionate about ensuring the right talent, skills, and resources are in place to meet evolving business needs, this is your opportunity to make a difference!

As VP of Strategic Workforce Planning, you will develop and drive implementation of a unified workforce planning strategy across BA Nordic (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland). This role is central to aligning talent strategies with business objectives, ensuring headcount and skills forecasting accuracy. Working closely with senior leaders, BUs, HR, Group L&D and TSS, you will be instrumental in providing insights and advice that is shaping a workforce that is agile, future-ready, and aligned with strategic priorities.

What you will be doing:

Develop and drive implementation of a harmonized workforce planning framework across the Nordics.

Align FTE and competency definitions to enable accurate workforce planning and reporting.

Lead strategic workforce forecasting, integrating short-term needs with long-term transformation.

Leverage workforce analytics and predictive modeling to support decision-making.

Work closely with HR, Finance, business leaders and TSS to drive a data-driven workforce strategy

Collaborate with Learning & Development to identify future skills and upskilling needs.

Ensure transparency in workforce reporting and optimize workforce allocation.

Who are we looking for?

We seek an experienced strategic leader with 8+ years of expertise in workforce planning and analytics. In this role, you will design and implement a harmonized framework across all business units, ensuring alignment with business needs. Defining standardized FTE and competency models will be essential for accurate planning and reporting.

Your ability to translate data into actionable insights will be critical. You will provide predictive analytics, scenario modeling, and workforce trends to support HR, Finance, and business leaders. In close collaboration with Learning & Development, you will identify skill gaps and drive upskilling initiatives.

Strong stakeholder management will be key, as you will work closely with senior leaders to align workforce planning with financial forecasting and drive continuous improvements to strengthen our workforce strategy.

Although the role is positioned at VP level, we encourage experienced professionals with a strong passion for strategic workforce planning to apply.

As a person we believe you:

Have a structured mindset and the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights

Take initiative and drive continuous improvements in workforce planning

Work effectively with senior leaders and stakeholders across multiple functions and countries

Thrive in a dynamic environment and can navigate change with confidence

Embrace analytics and digital tools to enhance decision-making and efficiency

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape and lead a strategic, data-driven workforce planning function across a diverse and evolving business landscape. If you thrive in complex environments , have a passion for data-driven HR strategy , and excel at aligning multiple stakeholders toward a common workforce vision, we invite you to apply and make a lasting impact.

Other important information:

Application Deadline: 14.05.25

Location: You can work from our offices in either, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, or Norway.

For questions regarding this position, please contact hiring manager, Elisabeth Stene -- SVP People and Communication Telenor Nordic: Elisabeth.Stene@telenor.no or Recruitment Business Parter Hanna Hellberg: hanna.hellberg@telenor.com

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 fibre 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 tightly integrated with colleagues from our business units across the Nordics.

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