Senior Commercial Manager - Data Analytics

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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 focused on driving down construction costs, assuring internal financial controls and reporting processes, and managing all major contract risks. The role also includes supporting the modernization of our data analytics capabilities and driving our AI transformation, transforming 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 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 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
• Monitors adherence against budget throughout the project lifespan, including cost checks and reviews, value engineering, cost‑saving initiatives and evaluation of alternates
• Provides data analytics for project portfolio cash flow and earned value analysis utilizing Power BI

• Reviews project cost reports and performs regular reviews with senior management
• Acts as a stage‑gate approver of budgets prior to executive approval
• Oversees adherence to 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 signs off on construction contracts

• Guides contract policy and ensures audit compliance
• Advise and intervene 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 training

• Drives global coordination when developing strategies with corporate development, legal and company management while also managing internal key stakeholders
• Manages a team of Commercial Managers and works closely with other internal project teams of varying levels of seniority
• Leads 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 AI agents to help commercially manage the GDC portfolio

• Typically 7+ years of professional experience ideally in data center or…