Senior Data Center Pre-Construction and Capacity Delivery Manager, EMEAPosted today

The opportunity

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

What you'll do

  • Lead. This is a role where leadership trumps management and process. You: will be expected to engage developers, contractors, utilities and our transaction teams early enough to shape the outcome of each deal rather than report on it afterwards.

  • Confirm deal readiness and serve as the gatekeeper to validate transaction: viability from LOI through lease execution, ensuring all predevelopment, planning, technical and business requirements are met before commitment

  • Give transaction leads an early delivery view from desktop study on capacity,: power, permitting, connectivity, schedule and cost, so that the sites moving to LOI are ones that can be delivered

  • Run independent, evidence-based delivery due diligence on each opportunity,: tested against source documents rather than relayed claims, covering capacity, power, permitting, connectivity, procurement, schedule, cost, and whether the developer's team, contractors and supply chain can deliver

  • Interrogate every developer schedule from the native file rather than summary: dates, testing logic, durations, production rates and critical paths, planning backwards from commissioning, and establishing the unconstrained date before any commercial protection is added

  • Rigorously accelerate programs during the pre-lease phase by making schedule: work a priority for the developer while the deal depends on it, pulling forward design, permitting, power, early works and procurement, and sequencing the build around how capacity turns up

What they're looking for

  • Assess contractor and supply-chain capacity and long-lead equipment needs for: each opportunity, setting a long-lead strategy that secures delivery capacity ahead of need and making the case for early equipment funding where it protects a date
  • Challenge Total Development Cost and delivery schedules against the: assumptions behind Yield-on-Cost and IRR, flagging where time-to-power or cost exposure puts the investment case at risk
  • Shape the delivery terms of the LOI, lease and supporting exhibits with: transaction and legal teams, including phasing and target dates, landlord scope, diligence cost, ownership and reliance, risk allocation and governance, and check that the developer's contract with its general contractor carries the same milestones and aligns incentives around accelerated delivery
  • Give deal and delivery leadership a clear go/no-go recommendation at each: decision point up to signature, with the risks, conditions and mitigations behind it