Senior Manager, Investment Management, NA

Position Overview

This position will be based on-site at our office in Denver, CO. in alignment with our flexible work policy. (3 days on site required, 2 days flexible).

Essential Job Functions

• Investigation Decision Materials & Approval Enablement (Post-Acquisition)

• Own the quality and consistency of investment decision materials for assigned projects (e.g., investment memos / approval packages), ensuring they clearly present key assumptions, capital commitments, return implications, and principal risks/mitigations.

• Capture cross-functional inputs and convert raw data into clear, decision-ready recommendations that advance opportunities through the company's approval process.

• Maintain a structured cadence for major commitments (e.g., capital releases, project-level scope changes, and other high-impact decisions), including meeting preparation and executive-level readouts.

• Lease Negotiation & Execution

• Participate in lease negotiations and execution activities in partnership with Sales, Solution Engineering, and Legal, serving as a representative of the business to support commercially sound outcomes.

• Ensure proposed terms, commitments, and concessions remain consistent with approved underwriting—explicitly identifying where economics, scope, schedule, or risk transfer deviates and proposing practical mitigations or alternatives.

• Help drive internal alignment and decisioning on negotiation positions by translating customer asks into clear tradeoffs (risk, return, schedule, and deliverability) and preparing concise, executive-ready summaries.

• Complex Modeling, Underwriting & Return Integrity

• Provide analytical leadership for complex modeling projects and underwriting updates that support leasing strategy, joint venture/partnership considerations, and major investment decisions.

• Build and maintain scenarios and sensitivity analyses to quantify the impact of key variables (e.g., pricing, capex, schedule, power/utility assumptions, monetization scenarios, and financing terms) and translate outputs into clear recommendations.

• Ensure recommendations explicitly frame risk/return tradeoffs, scenario impacts, and key sensitivities, and that they align to standardized underwriting expectations and risk discipline.

• Pipeline, Inventory Visibility & Comparable Insight

• Support disciplined visibility into project pipeline and owned inventory by building and maintaining dashboards and recurring reporting that informs prioritization and capital allocation.

• Foster relationships with market participants to support the collection and organization of comparable data (market comps) used in underwriting and strategic positioning.

• Complex Modeling, Underwriting & Return Integrity

• Provide analytical leadership for complex modeling projects and underwriting updates that support leasing strategy, joint venture/partnership considerations, and major investment decisions.

• Build and maintain scenarios and sensitivity analyses to quantify the impact of key variables (e.g., pricing, capex, schedule, power/utility assumptions, monetization scenarios, and financing terms) and translate outputs into clear recommendations.

• Ensure recommendations explicitly frame risk/return tradeoffs, scenario impacts, and key sensitivities, and that they align to standardized underwriting expectations and risk discipline.

• Leadership & Team Development

• Mentor analysts and junior team members by setting priorities, coaching analytical rigor, and raising the bar on executive communication and structured problem solving.

Job Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Real Estate, Economics, or a related field required. Advanced degree (MBA, MS-Finance) a plus but not required.

• Experience: 6-8+ years of experience in real estate/infrastructure, investments, asset/portfolio management, corporate finance, or related analytical roles with increasing responsibility in capital intensive environments. Demonstrated track record driving cross functional diligence and producing executive ready decision materials that support governance and approvals.

• Experience supporting lease negotiations and closing activities (in partnership with Sales/Legal), with demonstrated ability to translate underwriting into negotiation positions and risk mitigations.

• Experience with data centers, digital infrastructure, or large scale commercial real estate is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Strong analytical judgment; ability to synthesize cross-functional inputs into clear recommendations and compelling commercial narratives.

• Advanced financial modeling capabilities, including scenario and sensitivity analysis; strong comfort translating model outputs into executive insights.

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in structured approval environments and enforce consistent, comparable decisioning.

• Strong negotiation support capability—ability to evaluate customer asks, quantify impacts, and recommend positions that align economics and risk posture.

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint required; experience building templates/playbooks and reporting dashboards strongly preferred.

• Strong stakeholder management across functions; ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Physical Demands And Special Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Additional Details

Salary Range: $165,000-175,000 Base + Bonus (this range is based on Colorado market data and may vary in other locations)

This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.

Career Path: Vantage Data Centers offers a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations. Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.