Senior Commercial Manager, Equinix
Data Analytics
$150-245k
Salary dependent on location. + Bonus
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-245k
Salary dependent on location. + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- The Senior Commercial Manager - Data Analytics is responsible for commercial management oversight across Equinix’s portfolio of 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 supporting the modernization of our data analytics capabilities and driving our AI transformation. This role will support the transformation of our fragmented data and reporting into secure, automated, and insight‑driven analytics platforms
- 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
- Support modernization of analytics platforms through automation, and standardization
- Support adoption of advanced analytics, intelligent automation, and self‑service reporting to improve efficiency and insight quality
- Help to shape analytics architecture principles that balance scalability, performance, and usability
- Oversees the preparation of budgets (including detailed cost modeling and bench marking 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
- Data analytics for project portfolio cash flow and earned value analysis utilizing Power BI and SQL queries
- 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
- People Management
- 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
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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