With 13+ years of expertise in procurement and supply chain management, Zaid has consistently delivered exceptional results across complex, high-value categories in Networks and IT. His career spans strategic roles within Vodafone entities across India, Egypt, and Europe, establishing him as a seasoned professional with a global perspective.
Currently, Zaid leads a high-performing team managing Direct Procurement for critical categories such as Towers, Planning, Civil Works, Acquisition, Field Maintenance, and Energy across eight European markets. This role involves overseeing over €500 million in annual CAPEX and OPEX spend. At Vantage Towers, Zaid was instrumental to design and establish a 50+ member SCM organization, including 20 Shared Service Centre colleagues from initial 5 members. This complex transformation involved hiring and developing talent, adapting to dynamic business needs, addressing early challenges, and refining strategies to build a resilient and efficient supply chain framework.
In his key position, Zaid excels at business partnering with the Vantage Towers management team—including the CEO, CTO, and MDs of individual markets—to jointly design strategies and implement delivery plans across the organization. This close collaboration ensures procurement priorities align seamlessly with the broader organizational goals, driving sustainable value across markets. Today, he directly leads 15 professionals while inspiring and steering the broader team toward operational excellence.
Zaid's achievements include delivering significant procurement savings, driving category strategies, implementing advanced tools and processes, and ensuring contractual compliance as well as driving Gen AI tools leveraging in the SCM function. However, his leadership extends beyond metrics—he prioritizes fostering a cohesive, collaborative, and high-morale SCM team.
Earlier, Zaid held senior procurement roles with Vodafone India Ltd. and Vodafone Shared Services India (VOIS), where he managed procurement for IT and Network categories, including software, hardware, and services, supporting shared service centers across multiple geographies with a combined workforce of 24,000 employees.
A leader with a proven track record of innovation and impact, Zaid embodies a unique blend of strategic vision, operational expertise, and people-first leadership.

Vantage Towers is one of Europe’s leading tower companies. Our infrastructure and technologies are creating better connections in an ever-changing, increasingly digital world. With over 84,000 towers across 10 markets, we’re accelerating the digitisation of our communities by connecting people, businesses, and Internet-enabled devices like never before. We combine the scale, stability and quality of Europe’s leading tower network with the agility, optimism and energy of a start-up. We’re inspired by our past successes and excited by the opportunities in front of us.