Director, Commercial Management

Equinix•New York City, NY

22h

About The Position

The Director, Commercial Management is responsible for commercial management oversight across Equinix’s portfolio major expansion construction projects throughout the region. They provide strategic and day-to-day leadership specifically focused to drive down construction costs, provide assurance against internal financial controls and reporting processes and help manage all major contract risks. The role also includes program management of the wider design and construction function as it relates to preparing business cases for approval.

Requirements

10+ years of professional experience ideally in data center or mission critical system design and construction and costing
Bachelor's degree in construction, business, financial or related field preferred

Nice To Haves

RICS Accreditation preferred Royal Institute Chartered Surveyor

Responsibilities

Provides strategic oversight for the planning and monitoring of construction projects from start to completion
Monitors the 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
Oversees the preparation of budgets (including detailed cost modeling and benchmarking analysis) and presents to senior management
Monitors adherence against budget throughout the project lifespan, including cost checks and reviews, value engineering and cost saving initiatives and evaluation of alternates
Review analytics for project portfolio cash flow and earned value analysis
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
Provides guidance and assists with the orderly development of requests for proposal leading into procurement for design services agreements, owner furnished equipment and general contractor services agreements
Guides the overall contracting strategy and signing off of construction contracts
Guides contract policy and ensuring audit compliance
Advises and intervenes appropriately to resolve major contractual claims and disputes as they arise
Sets out risk management policy and auditing compliance
Pro-actively 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