Your Discover Trainee programme
Have you finished your Master’s degree or are almost there?
Great, then we have the perfect job for you. Discover different facets and divisions of Vodafone in our 18-24 month Discover Trainee programme. Choose the right focus. You determine your own stations for roughly three months and you take responsibility from the very beginning.
You will experience your stations at your home base, cross-functionally or abroad. Your mentor and a strong community will support you. Networking and feedback are important to us. Are dedication and passion for innovation in your blood? Then find your favourite job and shape the future with us.
What sets you apart
You have a good Master’s degree (or Bachelor’s degree with work experience)
You have completed relevant internships
You have English skills at level C1 according to CEFR
Experience abroad would be great
You fit in with us
Your benefits
Your career with us is planned for the long term. You will keep on developing yourself and your career
You get a permanent employment contract
You will be part of a strong community
We have experienced mentors
You receive numerous learning opportunities and seminars
Choose your home base from the following business units
Technology or IT
Is your home base technology or IT? Then you will experience how our IT and network infrastructure works first-hand and from various perspectives. You will get to know the network architecture and identify potential optimisations both internally and externally. You will discover departments throughout the company that are involved in building Big Data solutions. You can experiment and contribute your ideas to the AR Garage, our 5G Lab or the IT Accelerator.
Consumer Sales
Consumer Sales is the heart of the company. We always focus on our customers and on the company’s success: whether in our sales channels, in multi-channel or omnichannel projects, at the interface to brand, base and product marketing or in IT.
Corporate Development and Strategy
In Corporate Development or Strategy, you will work on Vodafone’s competitiveness every day. We develop, evaluate and manage strategic, interdisciplinary projects. We negotiate cooperation opportunities with external partners.
We monitor the capital market and our competitors. We support M&A processes with professional finance expertise. We prepare important strategic decisions as part of our Strategy Board. In the process, we safeguard Vodafone’s future growth.
Customer Experience and Operations
With your home base in Customer Operations, you will shape our future service for our customers. What can you look forward to? Service design, service innovation, customer-centricity, agile working and much more. What sets you apart: You like to see things from your customer’s perspective. You are dedicated and enthusiastic about innovation. You are empathetic, communicative and interested in strategic issues.
eCommerce
Every day we work on simple and innovative solutions for our customers at all digital touchpoints such as the Vodafone online shop or our app. Our work ranges from Google or social media campaigns to the technical development of new features and user experience research in our own research lab: We provide the very best digital customer experience.
Finance
In the finance division, we find the right solutions for our internal and external clients in every business area. We support our management with making the right decisions and developing our business.
Examples of what we do: Turnover planning, performance analysis, calculating business cases for new products and services for business and private customers, cost controlling, accounting issues, purchasing management, auditing internal processes.
Strategic Marketing
We look at the market as a whole. With our innovative spirit and strong customer focus, we work to safeguard our long-term competitiveness.
Does that sound exciting? Then join our team and shape the product world of tomorrow.
HR
We are responsible for recruiting developing and promoting our employees. We utilise innovative HR systems and work with diverse international interfaces. You will discover all these facets of our daily HR work during your trainee programme with us.
External Affairs, PR and Corporate Communications
With your home base in External Affairs, you communicate with and to the media, multipliers and decision-makers. You advise and accompany the top management at external meetings. You create and are responsible for external communication covering strategically important topics. You support the implementation of the sustainability strategy.
Your personal support
You will have a highly skilled and experienced mentor at your side from day one. This will enable you to chart the best possible career path. A buddy from the trainee community will also support you with your daily challenges and questions.
Your career ladder
This is where you continue your development. The trainee program prepares you for the extensive opportunities to pursue a specialist or management career that we offer.
Your flexibility
In consultation with your team and your manager, you decide which days you work in the office and from home
Your attractive total remuneration
In addition to your salary, you will also receive additional benefits such as holiday pay and Christmas bonus. Plus, you get discounts on our products, free sports facilities as well as a company pension scheme.
Your learning opportunities
Use various online learning modules and training options for your personal and professional development. Grow with Vodafone supports you. The AI-based system provides you with personalised learning and development recommendations based on your skill profile and your interests in learning fields or future roles. This prepares you for your future.
How to apply
Find the business area that suits you best from the areas above. You are still undecided? Use our contact form and get in touch with us.
You can see our job offers here. Is your desired business area is not listed right now? Then register with our talent community. We will inform you as soon as the job is available again.
You have found the perfect job? Then apply online. All you need is:
- Your CV
Your diploma or the current overview of your grades
Your covering letter or alternatively a 60 to 90 seconds application video. Introduce yourself using a personal object. Simply upload the video to a popular video platform such as YouTube or Vimeo. Add the link and, optionally, the password to your CV.
First create a personal account. Then upload your documents. You will receive a confirmation by e-mail as soon as you have successfully applied.
Our HR department will review your application and then invite you to an online assessment. Heavy successfully passed the assessment? Then you have made it to the next round.
Experienced colleagues from the department you have applied for will review your application documents. They will which applicants they nominate for their next assessment centre.
You will receive an invitation to the virtual assessment centre. This is where we get to know you personally. Exciting tasks await you. At the end of the day, you will know whether we can make you an offer. Then you have time to decide.
Have you accepted our offer? Then you can start as a Discover Trainee on 1 February, 1 June or 1 October. Other trainees will start with you. Then you have a starter group at your side.
Latest vacancies
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Discover Trainee Consumer Sales (m/w/d) in Düsseldorf
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Discover Trainee Digital & IT (m/w/d) in Düsseldorf
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Praktikant Innovation Garage Cyber Security mit Schwerpunkt Telekommunikation (m/w/d) in Düsseldorf
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Praktikant Vertriebssteuerung im Direktvertrieb (m/w/d) in Düsseldorf
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Praktikant Business Administration mit Schwerpunkt Vertrieb (m/w/d) in Stuttgart
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How to apply
We do everything digitally. Click on the job that interests you and apply directly to us.
Collect all the necessary documents
The job description tells us what we need from you. Then you put it all together in one document.
Upload everything in one document
You only need to upload one document for us. Allowed file formats are: DOCX, PDF, image and text formats.
What we offer you
Opportunity
Discover a world of new experiences. A world that challenges and encourages you.
Innovation
Think big. Take risks. The only way to make new discoveries. Shape the future in an agile environment.
People
Be yourself. As part of the whole and as an inspiration for others.
Impact
Make a difference: for our customers, our society and the planet.
Benefits & Full Flex Office
Enjoy our wide range of benefits. And decide where you work: At the office, from home or for up to 20 days abroad in the EU.
Award-winning! Design your own trainee programme
Our programme is externally certified and offers you a lot of opportunities to develop in your own unique way. You can expect a variety of offers from which you can choose the options that suit you best. They are designed to support you with your personal development, career planning, networking and your visibility within the company.
It is always important to remember: You are in control and decide which route you want to take. That also means which offers you would like to use from the various offer modules.
What our trainess and alumni say
For me, the Discover Trainee Programme mainly stands for three things: Freedom, responsibility and the trainee community. (1) I have the freedom to get to know every area of the company regardless of my home base. I can choose the areas that interest me, regardless of my degree. (2) I am responsible for immediately contributing to my colleagues’ work. Learning on the job instead of glorified internships. (3) The fantastic trainee community is a great group of young people. They hold lots of events: From upskilling sessions to afterwork. Community is very important here.
Bastian
Commercial Operations
I quickly decided to join the Discover Trainee Programme. During my studies, I discovered many different topics that interest me and that I would like to try out. As a trainee, I can do exactly that. I choose my stations and learn a lot from talented colleagues. In the process, I gain important skills and knowledge. While also building a network within the company.
Tobias
IT
Vodafone offers us trainees maximum flexibility in our choice of stations. Interdisciplinary rotations are possible and encouraged. As a strategy trainee, I also got a taste of marketing, finance and technology. I particularly enjoyed my station in London. All of this helped me a lot to understand the company as a whole.
Annika
Strategy
The trainee programme gave me the flexibility to carve my own path as I saw fit along with the guidance of my mentor and strength of the Trainee community. I got the opportunity to work with Data Engineers, Data scientists, DevOps Engineers using data for Marketing, Network, and IT use cases and to make an informed decision on my permanent role after the programme.
Shweta
Big Data