Telenor, one of the world’s major mobile operators across Scandinavia and Asia, extends with Zalaris
Zalaris has signed a six-year extension with Telenor – one of the leading Nordic providers of mobile, broadband and direct-to-home television services. Close to 10,000 employees in Scandinavia will be served by Zalaris solutions, and the agreement includes an option for broader geographic reach.
Zalaris has delivered HR and Payroll services for Telenor’s employees in Norway, Sweden and Danmark since the first agreement five years ago in 2013.Now, Telenor has extended the relation with Zalaris and signed a new agreement for six years. Through the new agreement Finland is also included.
“We are both proud and happy to continue serving Telenor with services that makes the nearly 10,000 employees’ workdays even more efficient. This agreement also proves our abilities as a multi-country provider of HR services,” says Hans-Petter Mellerud, Zalaris’ founder and CEO.
Telenor Group has a total of 173 million customers across Scandinavia and Asia. The company is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange as one of Norway’s largest companies. Telenor has a leading Nordic position in mobile, broadband and television services.
Potential geographic expansion
In addition to handling payroll, time and attendance, and travel expenses for Telenor’s employees Zalaris will also be engaged in optimalization of different processes. This includes a new modern integration of the new system with Telenor’s own global HR solution Workday. The agreement includes an option for broader geographic reach through a global framework agreement with Telenor procurement company based out from Singapore.
“Zalaris has proven itself to be a solid partner for several years and together we have identified the areas we jointly seek to improve with the goal of delivering the best user experiences to our employees at a competitive price. We believe that Zalaris is the right partner for us to achieve the results we seek over the next years,” says Øystein Bakken, director for HR in Telenor in Norway.
For more information please contact:
Hans-Petter Mellerud, Zalaris CEO
Tel: +47 92 89 72 76 hans-petter.mellerud@zalaris.com
About Telenor
Telenor Group connects its 173 million customers to what matters most. Connecting the world has been Telenor’s domain for more than 160 years. The company now operate across Scandinavia and Asia. Telenor is a Norwegian multinational telecommunications company headquartered near Oslo, Norway. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, focus in Scandinavia and Asia. It has extensive broadband and TV distribution operations in four Nordic countries, and a 10-year-old research and business line for Machine-to-Machine technology. For more inormation visit the website at www.telenor.com.
About Zalaris
Zalaris’ mission is to help our clients maximize the value of their human capital through excellence in HR processes. Our outsourced payroll, HR and consulting services are delivered from local language service centers. Our geographic coverage currently includes Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Thailand and India. Zalaris’ services utilize web and mobile based cloud solutions powered by SAP and SuccessFactors. We are a certified SAP Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Partner. Zalaris is listed on the Oslo Stock exchange as ZAL. For more information visit our website at www.zalaris.com.
Zalaris is certified as a SAP Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Partner and is a leading SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) and SuccessFactors consulting partner. Founded in 2000, Zalaris today operates in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden, including local-language service centers with extensive expertise in HR-related laws and regulations.