Senior Manager, Corporate Development & Strategy

Senior Manager, Corporate Development & Strategy

Equinix

Job Summary: The Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development drives and supports Americas’ strategic planning, portfolio strategy, location strategy, asset management, strategic initiatives, and new business development. They build strong collaborative partnerships with many major internal functions.

Responsibilities:

Portfolio Strategy & Asset Management:

• Developes asset management optimization and prioritization strategies, including expansion, contraction, disposition, and reconfiguration of sites
• Develops relative prioritization for both further investment in current footprints and for new potential geographic expansions
• Helps develop metro and regional capacity strategies and support capex forecasts on planned development
• Identifies and prioritizes development of new business cases for expansion
• Alongside internal business partners, prioritizes and ensures the timely investment roadmap for investment to refresh/upgrade sites, mindful of end‑of‑life infrastructure and mitigation of single points of failure
• Develops points of view and proposed action plans regarding metro‑ and site‑level performance, including prioritization and roadmap of site closures and divestments; partnering with the PMO Office to onboard identified site migrations and exits into such processes
• Supports near‑ and long‑term capacity plans and maintains inventory roadmaps
• Oversees the financial modeling and development of presentations
• Develops and presents investment proposals to executive management
• Reviews ad hoc financial analysis and supports investment analysis for other business units including M&A, Commercial Finance, Business Development, and others

Strategic Planning and Development:

• Manages the annual strategic planning process in conjunction with the Regional and Corporate teams; leading key initiatives during the annual strategy planning process
• Develops strategy/business cases for strategic initiatives, sells into organization, leads and manages cross‑functional program teams, and raises/resolves issues
• Drives competitive and market research to track and synthesize competitors’/partners’ initiatives, key trends, and disruptions across the ecosystem (e.g., data centers, connectivity providers, independent power providers, hyperscalers, neo‑clouds) to deliver insights that inform strategy and action‑planning; partnering with global Market Intelligence team for research
• Evaluates and (in some cases) spearheads corporate development opportunities, partnering with Finance, Marketing and other operating areas
• Develops strategies to capture significant benefit from the proliferation of AI inference
• Takes on a wide variety of roles, depending on the project
• Delivers presentations to senior management on key initiatives

Project and Program Management:

• Works with leadership to identify business issues requiring project management
• Develops Executive staff and Board‑level presentation materials
• Identifies, designs, prioritizes, manages and reports on complex strategic initiatives across the business
• Leads efforts on internal consulting projects focused on new markets/products, growth initiatives and profitability improvements
• Runs interdepartmental working group meetings with little or no supervision
• Helps kick‑off meetings and hosts sections of cross‑departmental meetings as needed
• Works with working group team members to identify, catalogue, document, and make recommendations to more senior team members
• Provides summary notes and follow‑up emails to working teams

Joint Ventures and M&A:

• Supports and, often, drives development of JV investment opportunities for growth
• Supports buyside and sellside M&A processes, as needed
• Actively follows and analyzes deal activity in areas of interest to Equinix
• Supports development of operational models and synergy forecasts for targets

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred; MBA a plus
• 7+ years of relevant business experience, preferably in Top‑tier Management consulting/Corporate Strategy/Corporate Development at a leading technology company
• Strong preference for significant, relevant data center experience

Targeted Pay Range:

United States – Denver…