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Procurement Expert - Category Management (m/f/d) for Vantage Towers

Aggregate function:  Finance
Business Area:  Vantage Towers Finance
Posting Country:  Germany
Date Posted:  7 Jul 2026
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

At Vantage Towers, we’re on a mission to power Europe’s sustainable digital transformation. As a leading tower company, we’re ushering in an era of technology-driven advances to help connect people, businesses, and internet-enabled devices like never before. We combine the scale, stability and quality of our tower network with the agility, optimism and energy of a start-up. 


As a young TowerCo, we have already achieved strong results with a continued focus on accelerating growth and a special emphasis put on sustainability. As part of our team, you’ll work in a dynamic and multicultural environment that embraces open communication, collaboration and teamwork.

If you’re ready to take responsibility and shape the future of telco infrastructure with us, then let’s level up in your career and reach the top, together.

 

Your Responsibilities:

  • You independently manage strategic sourcing activities, lead tenders, and negotiate commercial contracts for assigned categories up to a volume of €0.5m

  • You support the Supply Chain Manager with extensive market scans and supplier analyses to define and develop effective category strategies

  • You execute local tactical negotiations to maximize cost reductions and analyze SCM KPIs to unlock improvement opportunities

  • You build, maintain, and actively manage a robust supplier pool while cultivating sustainable, cross-market relationships with stakeholders and business owners

  • You act as a key support function in channeling market procurement demands across Vantage countries for your specific categories

  • You identify process optimization potential, improve purchasing governance continuously, and set unified standards across all markets

  • You maintain deep, up-to-date knowledge of procurement specifics, market trends, and supplier landscapes within your categories

 

Your Profile

  • A successful university degree in business management, economics, IT, engineering, or another relevant area

  • Several years of experience in supply chain management and strategic procurement within an international environment, including strong stakeholder management

  • Deep understanding of SCM procedures, category strategy, tendering tools, and good knowledge of office and procurement solutions like Excel, PowerPoint, ARIBA, or SAP

  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills in both English and German, matching a C1 level according to the CEFR

  • Outstanding negotiation tactics, a high sense of responsibility, strong customer orientation, and a proven ability to prioritize tasks under pressure

  • A natural networker and sympathetic negotiator with a strong grasp of negotiation psychology and excellent organizational skills

What we offer – Flexibility & Growth Opportunities:

  • Flexible work: hybrid work without fixed working times, part-time options (at least 30 hours), and up to 20 days per year EU-workation
  • Top equipment: Full home office setup (including laptop, mobile phone, monitor, keyboard, mouse, headset and chair)
  • Salary & vacation: competitive salary, 30 vacation days + up to 10 additional days against salary waiver. In addition, you can profit from discounts on private internet costs and mobile products
  • Work-life balance: Parental leave support, bike/car leasing, fitness offers (e.g., discount for wellhub memberships & free use of the campus gym in Düsseldorf), and corporate benefits
  • Learning & Growth: LinkedIn Learning, individual support for your professional and personal development as well as international career opportunities
  • Health & social care: use the medical center in Düsseldorf or the medical support options in our regions and profit from a subsidized company pension scheme or insurance offers for company conditions
  • Team & culture: work in a diverse, multiculture team which is committed to the values: Accountability, Respect, Teamwork and Trust. We offer the unique opportunity to shape our organization – together as OneVT

Are you ready to create the future of digital telco infrastructure together with us? Then we are happy to receive your CV. Depending on the role, we generally invite you to two-three rounds of interviews before you receive an offer.

 

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. Applications from all individuals, regardless of background, identity, or ability are more than welcome. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact us so we can support you.

 

Not the right match? We have plenty of other opportunities to choose from here.

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

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