Head of Site Design, Planning & Deployment (m/f/d) for Vantage Towers

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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

• Deployment & Operations: You steer and optimize regional deployment rollouts, processes, and standards while ensuring target achievement across volume, quality, costs, and timelines.

• Resource & Capacity Management: You take ownership of resource planning, capacity management, and the efficient deployment of external partners and regional/central capacities.

• Operational Excellence: You identify and implement strategic improvement measures to drive continuous operational performance across all regions.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: You foster strong relationships with regional deployment teams, suppliers, key partners like Vodafone, and executive stakeholders.

• Executive Reporting: You deliver regular performance reports to senior management and actively contribute to Executive and ExCo decision-making.

Your Profile

• Educational Background: Degree in Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a comparable qualification.

• Professional Experience: Extensive experience in deployment, rollout, or infrastructure projects, alongside proven senior leadership experience within the telecommunications sector (ideally mobile or infrastructure).

• Technical Skills: Strong track record in managing budget, complex programs, and large, decentralized teams.

• Soft Skills: High level of decisiveness, strong problem-solving skills, hands-on execution focus, and the ability to thrive under pressure in complex environments.

• Language Proficiency: Business fluent / negotiation-level skills in English and German.

At Vantage Towers we operate in 8 different European countries. This role will be based in Düsseldorf.