Operations & Maintenance Cost & Budget Expert (m/f/d) for Vantage Towers

Vantage Towers • Lisboa

Lisboa

from 2025-08-01

The opportunity

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:

 Budget Monitoring & Management:

  • Track, manage, and review Operations & Maintenance (O&M) budgets across all markets, ensuring cost efficiency and alignment with business goals. Oversee volume and cost analysis of infrastructure operations services delivered to clients;

Cost Benchmarking & Optimization:

  • Develop a comprehensive O&M budget view using financial data, site-specific insights, and process-related information;
  • Conduct cost benchmarking between local markets, analyzing detailed metrics such as cost per site, asset, and operational function;
  • Identify and implement cost reduction strategies and operational efficiency improvements based on benchmarking insights;

Vendor Strategy & Financial Alignment:

  • Support the strategic planning and selection of new O&M vendors by providing budget and cost-related insights;
  • Ensure cost-effective vendor engagement and procurement strategies.
  • Reporting & Business Case Development:
  • Develop and deliver budget-related reports for overnance meetings involving local markets and vendors. Contribute to business cases for infrastructure operations investments and cost-related initiatives across VT's footprint;
  • Lead and collaborate on global projects, ensuring alignment between central departments and local markets.
What makes you stand out:
  • At least 5 years experience in Finance Domain especially on Budget view, Benchmarking and Business Case creation;
  • At least 3 years experience in O&M Domain, notably ground base towers, rooftop towers and distributed antenna systems;
  • Broad and comprehensive understanding of theories and practices about infrastructure operations and maintenance;
  • Solid communication and negotiation skills by contributing to vendor management;
  • Strategic mentality, analytical and conceptual skills, and ability to work in a team.

 

You Must Have:

  • Successfully completed university studies with a Bachelor or Master Degree of Business Administration and Engineering, Industrial engineer electrical engineering, Bachelor for Business Administration in Finance or similar education;
  • Fluency in English is mandatory (C1 according to CEFR); Spanish and Portuguese is a nice to have.
What we offer:
  • diverse, multicultural setup based on our values – respect, teamwork, responsibility and honesty – and the unique opportunity to shape the organisation 
  • An attractive salary package
  • Meal Allowance: Delivered on Pluxee card - €9.60/day
  • Pension Plan
  • Full Health Insurance: For employees and co-payment for family members
  • Life Insurance
  • 7 extra vacation days: 4 flexible, plus 3 fixed — 1 on Carnival, 1 on Christmas, and half a day on Easter and New Year's.
  • Parking Slot

 

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.


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

Employee testimonials

Aingeru Cano
Aingeru Cano
Team Leader Design and Engineering, Vantage Towers Spain

"Working for VT gives you the opportunity of living a unique experience in a multinational, multidisciplinary and customer-centric company.
Within the infrastructure and roll out service department, you have a direct contact with customers, vendors and other departments of the company to which we must provide service. Moreover, our clients’ high level of rigorousness makes us be continuously pursuing cutting-edge technological solutions. 
I find very motivating the fact of knowing how the same projects and problems are faced from the different markets, leading to the same outcomes in most of cases."

Amr Khalifa
Senior Manager Cyber Security, Vantage Towers Group

"At Vantage Towers, you can enjoy working at a company with start-up mentality, be part of implementing new initiatives and technologies whilst enjoying the capabilities and resources of a multi-national corporation. The result of this interesting mix is an exponential learning curve making Vantage Towers a highly professionally rewarding experience!"

Ana Perez Gonzalez
Ana Perez Gonzalez
Head of Business Operations, Vantage Towers Spain

"Working at VT ES is a refreshing experience: from the moment I joined, I have been able to express my opinions, swiftly implement innovative digitalization projects that improve customer interactions and make life easier for our colleagues. The multicultural environment we work in and the professional level that surrounds me are incentives that make me discover something new every day and want to go further."

Athanasia Solomou
Athanasia Solomou
Sites Construction Manager, Vantage Towers Greece

"I am honored and privileged to be working for such an innovative company as Vantage Towers, promoting and implementing hosting environments of high-end technology solutions.
Every day my team and I are facing new challenges, which we approach through a collaborative team spirit and with respect to the environment. 
Saying so, a successful construction implementation is not only a target achievement but a pleasure of creation.
Further on this truly global and diverse working environment helps widening the horizon of our knowledge, resulting to a top quality daily outcome."

Carlos Chilla
Carlos Chilla
Mng. Technology Strategy & Innovation

“At Vantage Towers, your ideas are not just heard - they drive change. From day one, I was entrusted to lead key projects that challenged me to grow - it’s rewarding to see how my contributions makes a real difference to the company’s success. I am proud that my work helps to keep people connected shaping the future of telecommunications. Working at Vantage Towers is an opportunity to leave a real impact on the industry and to improve the way technology transforms lives.”

Catalina Badoiu
Customer Delivery Manager, Vantage Towers Romania

"I'm happy to be part of this team that promotes and demonstrates values ​​such as trust, teamwork, respect! Here, in Vantage you feel like in a family, everything we feel matters and we can express ourselves freely."

Paraskevi Christia
Paraskevi Christia
Commercial Contracts Manager, Vantage Towers Greece

"An environment that promotes collaboration, creativity, innovation and diversity is one that motivates and inspires for great achievements. It's fantastic that I feel like an integral part of such a team and feel that I contribute daily to each one of these achievements while through the same path I enhance my development and skills. That's what it’s like to work at Vantage Towers!"

Walid Heggy
Senior Manager IT Service Delivery Management, Vantage Towers Group

“The Vantage Towers culture is something special. I’m proud to work in a team that values open collaboration—my colleagues are there for me, and I’m there for them. I get to learn about the tower industry and innovative ideas from a diverse team of experts—and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

About Vantage Towers
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