Senior Strategy & Transformation Expert (m/f/d) for Vantage Towers

Aggregate function:  Finance
Business Area:  Vantage Towers Finance
Posting Country:  Germany
Date Posted:  2 Jan 2025
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 contribution: 

  • Work closely with the Executive Board, Top Management, Corporate Finance, international entities and business units, especially the Head of Strategy & Business Transformation to support the transformation
  • Lead and support strategic and business transformation initiatives, projects, and programmes to enable costs and process optimisation in line with the Finance Transformation Strategy 
  • Support of specific initiatives related to the transformation (e.g. COGS) with representatives from the relevant functional areas based on lean principles 
  • Develop and execute workshops with business unit leaders and (senior) managers to drive alignment, synchronization, and simplicity across all transformation initiatives 
  • Support organizational change management efforts, build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, especially owners and suppliers, recognize transformation needs and obstacles early, and develop proposals to overcome them 
  • Work in a dynamic and complex environment, especially with CFO, collaborating with colleagues across multiple business units, country organizations, and business supporting functions around Europe 
  • Represent externally (e.g. suppliers, service providers, manufacturers) at a senior level when required  


What makes you stand out:

  • An university degree in the field of Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Natural Sciences or a comparable degree
  • Experience in telecommunications or digital incl. coverage of tower companies and business carve outs 
  • Experience in finance, procurement, supply chain management or similar experience e.g. in strategic or functional role in international matrix-organization 
  • Experience in business transformation and change projects within multi-disciplinary or cross-functional end-to-end change delivery 
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, in particular alignment with key stakeholders on business value creation to engage, inspire and influence stakeholders at all levels  
  • Clear communication style necessary to effectively represent TowerCo to the Board and towards important external stakeholders 
  • Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement background 
  • Fluent English (C1) and German (C1) skills, written and spoken

What we offer:

  • A diverse, multicultural setup based on our values – respect, teamwork, responsibility, and honesty – and the unique opportunity to shape the organisation 
  • An attractive salary package
  • Maximum flexibility: With Full-Flex Office, you can freely decide how you’ll work upon agreement with your manager. You can even work from other EU countries for up to 20 days per year
  • Free home office equipment: In addition to a laptop and mobile phone, we provide a monitor, keyboard, mouse, headset, and desk chair
  • Full-Flex credit: discount on private internet costs and mobile products
  • A total of 30 days in holidays with the option of 10 additional days against salary waiver
  • Support during parental leave to have the best work-life balance possible
  • Extensive learning opportunities and individual support for your professional and personal development
  • A subsidized company pension scheme, bike and car leasing, fitness and health offers, access to corporate benefits, international career opportunities, exchange possibilities, insurance for company conditions and many more ...

 

Interested? Send us your CV with your desired salary. Depending on the role, we generally invite you to two rounds of interviews before you receive your offer.

 

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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.