Mirjana Scheele

Company Overview: Vantage Towers is a European telecom infrastructure company. HQ-Düsseldorf Germany, €1bn revenue, 800 employees

• P&L ownership for the €400M Turn-Key business line in Germany, overseeing the full lifecycle of telecom infrastructure deployment. Leading a team of 150 professionals.
• End-to-end accountability for the Turn-Key program supporting Vodafone Germany, including the construction of new towers, network upgrades, and site replacements driven by landlord or technical requirements. Oversight of site acquisition, planning, permitting, and construction, ensuring compliance with technical, legal, and commercial standards. Strategic alignment with Vodafone Germany’s rollout roadmap and regulatory mandates. Leadership of cross-functional teams across engineering, project management, procurement, and operations.
• Successfully delivered Q1 results for Fiscal Year 2026 (April 2025 – March 2026), meeting Vantage Towers Germany’s quarterly performance targets.

• Conducted in-depth assessments and provided strategic advisory to telecom operator executives on improving service performance, operational efficiency, and organizational agility through targeted digital transformation initiatives. This included identifying bottlenecks, evaluating existing service models, and proposing actionable, technology-enabled improvements.
• Facilitated high-impact executive workshops designed to foster strategic alignment, cross-functional collaboration, and innovative problem-solving. These sessions enabled leadership teams to co-develop practical roadmaps for transformation, supported by data-driven insights and international best practices.

Example: For the CTO of Telenor Norway, led a comprehensive diagnostic of service delivery processes. Delivered tailored recommendations on digital workflow orchestration, resource optimization, and agile program management—helping to align operational goals with long-term strategic priorities.

Company Overview: Telecommunication equipment and services company HQ Espoo, Finland; €25b revenue; 85 thousand employees

• P&L accountability for the €2bn Deploy Turn-Key business line in 170 countries – building Telecom network infrastructure; 200 employees
• Mobile Networks Deploy Services portfolio: Project Management, Site Acquisition, Construction Work, Site Engineering - Site Design, Installation, Logistics, Installation Material, Cabinets, Batteries, Rectifiers, Power Distribution Units and passive Antennas.
• Improved Deploy Business operating profit 15p.p. in 3 years, taking out €0.5bn costs and keeping sales on target through a structured program covering digitalization, operational recovery and innovation.
• Increased 50% sales/2 years for the energy portfolio through partnerships and with innovative products: cabinets, rectifiers, and smart PDUs; enabled customers to reduce electricity spending by 10%, participate in the Frequency Reserve Market and reaching their ESG targets.
• Achieved 40% site deployment time reduction, from 351 to 205 days, reduced amount of site visits 30%, usage of paper 80% and enabled ESG contribution, by implementing a digital workflow orchestration platform and Machine Learning.
• Boosted customer satisfaction by 10p.p. by the Renaissance of Project Management and the certification of the top 200 PMs globally.
• Drove employees’ satisfaction from “off track” to “high performance” in 2 years, by putting a special focus on communication, removing inefficiency in processes and engaging them collaboratively in the transformation journey.

• 1800 employees, €500m sales (overlapping with previous and succession roles)
• Represented Nokia’s legal entity in Germany towards local authorities and internally; ensured proper conduct of all business activities, taking legal aspects into account, and negotiated with employees’ representatives and heads of business relevant topics
• Achieved a smooth transition to new Nokia legal entities’ setup in Germany after Alcatel-Lucent integration closure and, as part of, closed 3 locations.
• Successfully negotiated with workers councils/union and executed 20% reduction of workforce with support of outplacement programs, early retirements and severance packages in cooperation with all relevant functions.
• Assured local law conform engagement of the external workforce, despite personal criminal threats. Through coherent argumentation and legal support prevented major negative impact on Nokia business in Germany.

Company Overview: Telecommunication equipment and services company HQ Espoo, Finland and Munich, Germany; €17b revenue; 65 thousand employees

• 1000 employees, €0.7bn costs
• Led engineers and project managers in 15 countries, projects costs were ~€0.7bn.
• Fluidly implemented Mode of Operations, with centralized engineering and project management experts vs previously distributed across different units.
• Reduced costs ~20%, without project disruptions, by well executed restructuring of 30% of workforce.

Company Overview: Information and Communication Mobile equipment and services company HQ Munich, Germany; €10b revenue; 27 thousand employees

• Integration manager: created blueprint for Nokia Siemens Networks Global Services Care – Software Service division. RNCC: Implemented Remote Care services in CIS (Russia) and APAC (Thailand). Maternity leave: 12.2004-04.2005.
• 30% cost savings achieved with the transition of local to remote care services.
• Created and implemented management escalation process for more effective handling of escalations; globally adopted and still in use.
• Started as an engineer in Siemens Belgrade -till 1999, Continued in Siemens Atea Belgium and Siemens France as second level support and PM, moved to Siemens Germany in 2001 as third level support expert