Lauri Halonen Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Finland

- Providing commercial early engagement support for selected cases in Europe, Middle East & Africa, Latin America & North America (incl. customers like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica, Ooredoo) to enable, guide and enhance the pricing execution and maximizing value capture for Nokia CNS -business group. - Supporting offer approval process with a commercial position statement for selected cases highlighting the changes needed to minimize and mitigate risks related to the commercial offer- Driving commercial capability development in price setting, execution and control to elevate level of commercial capabilities within Nokia CNS Commercial Mgmt -team

Finland

- Responsible for pricing validation and guidance driving profitability improvements for selected customer offers- Supporting customer teams with price benchmarks and commercial strategy recommendations- Coaching and driving best practice on commercial models, price levels, scope optimization, risk mgmt., discount structures & T&Cs

Finland

- Supporting Microsoft Europe Region from device pricing point of view by facilitating pricing processes (e.g. handling of special price requests and price lists) & implementing global pricing decisions- Owner of Europe Region Pricing Desk ensuring fast turnaround times for price requests & fact-based challenging of price requests with analysis- Single point of contact for pricing related topics between Europe Region and Global Pricing Office

Finland

- Supporting Nokia Europe sales region from pricing point of view by facilitating pricing processes (e.g. handling of special price requests and price lists) & implementing global pricing decisions- Owner of Europe Region Pricing Desk ensuring fast turnaround times for price requests & fact-based challenging of price requests with analysis- Single point of contact for pricing related topics between Europe Region and Global Pricing Office

Finland

- Responsible for facilitating all the pricing related activities related to Nokia smartphones- Key responsibilities were facilitating the monthly pricing mtg, tactical pricing in a close co-operation with other relevant teams- Providing pricing supporting for product, portfolio and end-to-end device lifecycle management

Finland

- Responsible for Business Control of Nokia Online Marketing covering wide range of topics like OPEX-control, SOX-controlling, management reporting, annual budgeting, short-term planning and period closings- Responsible for F&C –guidance for unit’s non-financial personnel- Reporting to the Head of Marketing F&C and in matrix to the Head of Online Marketing. Member of the Online Marketing Mgmt team

Finland

- Responsible for Business Control of different marketing units covering wide range of topics like OPEX-control, SOX-controlling, management reporting, annual budgeting, short-term planning and period closings- Responsible for F&C –guidance for units’ non-financial personnel- Reporting to the Head of Marketing F&C and in matrix to the Heads of each marketing unit. Member of each marketing unit's mgmt team

Finland

- Supporting a number of account teams of global and local network operators in Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa like Telenor, TeliaSonera, Hutchison, O2, Elisa & DNA by providing tender pricing and profitability analysis- Management of pricing and profitability of selected accounts according to Nokia’s pricing processes while taking into account customer specific conditions- Driving & implementing Nokia customer pricing strategies among the customer account teams

Finland

- Supporting a number of account teams of global and local network operators in Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa like Telenor, TeliaSonera, Hutchison, O2, Elisa & DNA by providing tender pricing and profitability analysis- Management of pricing and profitability of selected accounts according to Nokia’s pricing processes while taking into account customer specific conditions- Driving & implementing Nokia customer pricing strategies among the customer account teams

Finland

- Providing global upside/downside sales analysis for Nokia Networks business to enable fact-based decision making for e.g. supply and resource allocations- Additionally participating Demand-Supply planning of network core elements

China

- Management of pricing and profitability of Nokia Networks China operations (annual sales of approx. 1b USD) including tender pricing and profitability analysis - Implementing Nokia’s pricing processes & policies while taking into account China market specific conditions and Nokia China specific joint venture -structure- Reporting to the VP & GM, Sales of Nokia China Networks

China

- Responsible for the Customer Services F&C for Nokia Networks China operations including all the network related services Nokia provided to its customers like network planning, implementation services, technical support, training, hardware repairs & software maintanence- My tasks included e.g. management reporting, period closings, financial planning, process development, facilitation of all F&C related tasks & processes within the unit taking into account Nokia China specific joint venture -structure - F&C –guidance for unit’s non-financial personnel- Reporting to Nokia Networks China controller. Member of Nokia Networks China Customer Services mgmt team

Finland

- Global F&C responsibility of a unit providing 3rd party equipment and materials (e.g. power systems, antennas, cables) for telecommunication networks built by Nokia- Unit's annual net sales of 200M - 250M Eur at the current value- Unit had its own product R&D and -management as well as purchasing and logistics functions- My tasks included e.g. management reporting, period closings, financial planning, process development, facilitation of all F&C related tasks & processes within the unit (purchasing, CAPEX, OPEX, sales, Inventories)- F&C –guidance for unit’s non-financial personnel- Reporting to the Head of the Unit. Member of the unit's mgmt team

Global Strategy, Excellent (91/100)

Aalto Mba 2023: Corporate Finance, Very Good (80,5/100)

Business Controller Liiketoiminnan Strategisena Tukena

"Business Controller as strategic support for business"

Risk Management For Champion

Introduction To Risk Management

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Economics

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