Procurement Expert - Category Management (m/f/d) for Vantage Towers
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 3, 2026.
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
Category Strategy & Spend Management: You operationally manage all Commercial & Services spend across markets, developing standardized strategies and executing long-tail strategies for supplier consolidation.
Sourcing & Tenders: You lead local tenders, sourcing activities, and negotiations while supporting high-value Group-level negotiations to drive efficiency and cost savings.
Supplier Relationship Management: You build strong relationships with strategic suppliers, driving performance reviews, capability expansion, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Advisory: You engage regularly with business stakeholders as a trusted advisor, understanding procurement requirements, balancing interests, and delivering on business goals.
Process Excellence & KPIs: You manage key KPIs-such as savings and contract coverage-while driving process improvements, governance, automation, and AI adoption.
Your Profile
Educational Background: Successful university degree in business management, economics, marketing, engineering, or a related field.
Professional Experience: Extensive professional experience in supply chain management with solid experience heading a material category within an international environment.
Technical Skills: Deep understanding of SCM procedures, category strategies, stakeholder mapping, and proficiency in Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint).
Soft Skills: Strong negotiation psychology, networker mindset, fact-based decision-making, task prioritization, and resilience under pressure.
Language Proficiency: Advanced negotiation-level language skills in both English and German (C1 level CEFR).
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.
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