Senior Commercial Manager - Data Analytics

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic oversight for the planning and monitoring of construction projects from start to completion
• Maintains financial close-out on all projects including settlement of all vendors
• Reports status, successes, challenges and key activities to senior management
• Develops, manages and is accountable for achievement of key commercial metrics
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives and develops best practices
• Ensures correct level of professional cost management resources are identified, engaged and managed on all regional construction projects
• Provides cost management advice and support
• Oversees and provides guidance on commercial change management and change evaluation efforts on all projects
• Supports modernization of analytics platforms through automation, and standardization
• Supports adoption of advanced analytics, intelligent automation, and self-service reporting to improve efficiency and insight quality
• Helps to shape analytics architecture principles that balance scalability, performance, and usability
• Oversees the preparation of budgets (including detailed cost modeling and benchmarking analysis) and presents to senior management
• Maintains adherence against budget throughout the project lifespan, including cost checks and reviews, value engineering and cost saving initiatives and evaluation of alternates
• Reviews project cost reports and carries out regular reviews of these with senior management
• Acts as a stage gate approver of budgets prior to executive approval
• Oversees the adherence against company expenditure limits
• Guides the overall contracting strategy and signing off of construction contracts
• Guides contract policy and ensures audit compliance
• Advises and intervenes appropriately to resolve major contractual claims and disputes as they arise
• Proactively leads all commercial risk management efforts including commercial audits, contingency analyses, risk identification and analyses and management training
• Drives global coordination when developing strategies with corporate development, legal, company management, while also managing internal key stakeholders
• Directly manages a team of Commercial Managers and works closely with other internal project teams of varying levels of seniority
• Manages the regional Commercial Management team to perform as industry-leading function
• Trains and develops in-house teams on commercial controls and best practices
• Trains and develops teams on the creation of Power Apps and creation of Ai agents to help commercially manage the GDC portfolio

Qualifications

• Typically 7+ years of professional experience ideally in data center or mission critical system design, construction and costing
• Demonstrated data analytics experience, ideally with Power BI and SQL queries
• Demonstrated experience to create Power Apps and automate workflows
• Bachelor's degree in construction, business, financial or related field preferred
• RICS (Royal Institute Chartered Surveyor Accreditation) preferred

Pay

• The targeted pay range for this position in the United States varies by location.
• United States - Dallas Infomart Office: $136,000 - $204,000 USD / Annual
• United States - Redwood City Office: $163,000 - $245,000 USD / Annual
• United States - CH1 Chicago: $150,000 - $224,000 USD / Annual
• United States - New York City Office: $150,000 - $224,000 USD / Annual
• United States - Ashburn Office: $150,000 - $224,000 USD / Annual