Director, Strategic Planning & Program Controls Delivery

** Job Description*
* ** Position Summary*
* We are seeking a highly driven, proactive leader to establish and lead strategic planning, program delivery, and process excellence across a fast-paced, highly cross-functional organization. This leader will bring structure, clarity, and disciplined execution to complex initiatives, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery commitments.

The ideal candidate combines the strategic mindset of a program leader with the practical discipline of a process improvement expert. They are comfortable operating through influence across diverse stakeholders, navigating ambiguity, resolving barriers, and turning complex work into clear, executable plans. This role requires a hands-on leader who does not wait for problems to be assigned, but instead identifies opportunities, develops solutions, and drives implementation through to sustained adoption.

While deep subject-matter expertise in data center development is not required on day one, this individual must be technically curious, eager to learn, and energized by the opportunity to understand the complexity of infrastructure and data center build programs.

** Key Responsibilities*
* + Lead the planning and execution of complex, multi-stakeholder programs, ensuring clear scope, priorities, milestones, accountabilities, dependencies, risks, and decision paths.

+ Build and continuously improve operating rhythms, planning processes, governance structures, and reporting mechanisms that reduce overhead and improve execution speed, predictability, and transparency.

+ Identify process gaps, bottlenecks, and unnecessary complexity; develop practical, scalable solutions and lead their rollout across teams.

+ Ensure new processes are not only designed well, but communicated, implemented, adopted, measured, and refined over time.

+ Drive cross-functional alignment among technical, operational, commercial, and leadership stakeholders in a rapidly changing environment.

+ Proactively surface risks, constraints, resource conflicts, and delivery barriers; facilitate resolution and escalate decisions when appropriate.

+ Translate complex technical and business information into clear, concise updates and recommendations for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

+ Develop portfolio-level views of initiatives, including prioritization, resource needs, schedules, risks, costs, progress, and tradeoffs.

+ Establish a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and solution-oriented problem solving.

+ Mentor, coach, and develop team members, including program managers, project managers, planners, and technical contributors as applicable.

+ Partner with project owners, sponsors, and leaders to build credibility through accurate forecasting, transparent communication, and clearly defined expectations.

+ Build working knowledge of the technical, operational, and commercial factors that shape data center build programs and use that knowledge to improve planning and delivery outcomes.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Qualifications*
* + Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, operations, or a related discipline; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred.

+ Approximately 15+ years of progressive experience in program management, project management, engineering, infrastructure delivery, capital programs, operations, or a related field.

+ Significant experience leading complex, high-value programs or portfolios involving multiple projects, stakeholders, and competing priorities.

+ Demonstrated experience designing, simplifying, standardizing, and implementing business or operational processes at scale.

+ Experience leading, coaching, or managing people, with a demonstrated ability to develop strong teams and drive performance.

+ Proven ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across senior leaders, technical teams, and business partners.

+ Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to communicate risks, assurances, tradeoffs, progress, and decisions with clarity and credibility.

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Experience with portfolio planning, resource allocation, risk assessment, scheduling, forecasting, prioritization, and performance tracking.

+ A disciplined, action-oriented approach to problem solving, with a strong bias toward finding and driving practical solutions.

+ Technical curiosity and the ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technical concepts and apply them…