Project Manager - Procurement of Cloud Suppliers (Hyperscalers)

Project overview

Assignment Description:

Sykehuspartner HF provides modern, scalable, and flexible technology platforms that support patient care and other services in Helse Sør-Øst. Services are delivered from own data centers and through the use of public cloud services from several international providers. Sykehuspartner currently has an agreement with a cloud broker offering services from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

This agreement is nearing expiration, and there is a need to conduct a new procurement to ensure continued access to relevant cloud services and facilitate the further development of cloud platforms.

The procurement is complex, partly due to various commercial and delivery models in the market. Cloud services can be procured through direct agreements with cloud providers, indirectly through resellers or brokers, or through combinations of these. The models involve different assumptions related to agreement structure, supplier responsibility, service access, pricing, and administration.

A central objective is to establish an agreement framework that complies with public procurement regulations, while providing the health regions with the necessary flexibility and an administratively simple and efficient way to procure and utilize cloud services. Designing clear, predictable, and appropriate call-off mechanisms will be particularly important. The agreement framework should facilitate the use of specific business needs, service requirements, and architectural principles to guide the choice of supplier and service, without requiring extensive mini-competitions for each individual call-off.

This must be within the framework permitted by procurement regulations.

Helse Sør-Øst has experience using public cloud services and also wishes to facilitate increased collaboration between the health regions. The other regional health authorities have therefore been invited to participate in the evaluation, and a joint inter-regional agreement is planned. This means the procurement must also be able to accommodate different needs, maturity levels, and organizational prerequisites across the regions.

Sykehuspartner is therefore seeking an experienced project manager who can lead the procurement work in close collaboration with a competent internal professional environment. The project manager shall contribute to evaluating alternative agreement and procurement models, ensure a structured and legally sound process, and lay the foundation for a future-oriented agreement framework that balances competition, flexibility, commercial considerations, and efficient operational use.

Responsibilities

The hired project manager shall assist the project as a leader with strong procurement expertise in connection with the planning and execution phases and should have documented experience from large procurements of cloud solutions, or equivalent.

The leader will be responsible for the procurement team in the project. The leader will report to the Department Manager and must expect dialogue/participation in professional discussions organized by professional environments within Sykehuspartner. Other responsibilities will include assisting the procurement with:

Experience and Competence:

• Procurement strategy
• Ensuring the chosen procurement process is followed (formal requirements)
• Planning the process and dialogue phases
• Following up on operators/suppliers (bidders)
• Dialogue and coordination with the commercial manager in Sykehusinnkjøp HF
• Case presentations and presentations to the steering committee, management meetings, and similar
• Documenting all decisions and relevant information throughout the process

Requirements

Desired experience and competence:

Personal qualities:

• Senior-level consultant with a minimum of 5 years of experience in advising and executing complex procurement processes
• Experience in leading public procurements, including establishing framework agreements and designing call-off mechanisms (must show concrete procurements in "Relevant experience" in the offer)
• Experience in preparing tender documents, evaluating, and conducting negotiations, including contracting
• Knowledge of cloud services (licensing models, shared responsibility model, and privacy regulations)
• Experience with procurement of cloud solutions for large public entities
• Knowledge of security and compliance
• Courses on the Public Procurement Act or Regulations
• Experience with supplier follow-up
• Documented experience in business development and development of new business models
• Led procurement teams
• Good collaboration skills
• Systematic and structured work approach
• Independent and proactive profile
• Good written and oral communication skills in Norwegian and English

Project details

1 consultant in a 50% position, From 23.11.2026 to 30.06.2027

Workplace: Oslo

Internal application deadline: 12.11

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 7-9 months
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Oslo, Norway, NO
• Languages: Norwegian