Senior Pre-Construction Manager, EMEA Pre-Construction

Senior Pre-Construction Manager, EMEA Pre-Construction

Amazon’s Data Centers are industry leading examples of innovation in the areas of security, safety, space utilization, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. We are the global team responsible for the construction of the Amazon owned sites. The EMEA Data Center Construction team is looking for a Senior Pre‑Construction Manager to serve as the primary liaison between Real Estate, Design Engineering, Construction, and other critical partner teams during initial planning, conceptual design and design development, providing cost, schedule, and constructibility guidance.

• Represent AWS in ensuring the on‑time and in‑budget execution of Amazon projects, strategically improving processes, costs, quality, health & safety, and sustainability performance.
• Lead and mentor large cross‑functional teams as an expert technical and project management resource to complete construction projects, motivating and focusing people of all levels to deliver.
• Drive significant communication across departments, to front line and executive level managers, serving as an authority on project issues.
• Leverage experience and tools to understand where gaps exist in project plans and propose solutions.
• Understand and negotiate terms of contracts with developers, contractors and consultants, representing AWS’ interests.
• Act as the primary escalation point for the evaluation of the feasibility of potential future projects and pre‑development actions, owning and tracking issues to ensure that they are addressed, documented, and resolved.
• Lead negotiations with general contractors and internal procurement partners, evaluating bids/proposals/claims with detail and accuracy, reporting key construction/commercial metrics including schedule, cost, and budget.
• Review and provide input into global standards and data center template designs.
• Independently support, overview and manage complex, cross‑functional Data Center projects from site selection, permitting and contract execution, keeping stakeholders informed.
• Maintain scope progress by driving crisp and timely decisions, identifying and clearing blockers, and escalating appropriately.
• Work with internal/external teams—including real estate, design engineering, construction, finance, architects, engineers, permitting agencies, developers, and landlords—to secure resources, scope infrastructure builds, set priorities, milestones and drive results through clearing blockers and leading and influencing.
• Conduct negotiations with general contractors, evaluate bids/proposals, and participate in pricing reviews for scope inclusions/exclusions, negotiating the cost of the work with developers, general contractors and design consultants.
• Evaluate due diligence, schedule tracking, and identify and solve factors that may impede a successful permitted project hand‑over to Amazon stakeholders.
• Insist on the highest standards from self and others, driving accountability for results, leading externals and, potentially, internals, including coaching and disciplinary actions as needed.

Amazon’s Data Centers are industry leading examples of innovation. We are the global team responsible for the construction of the Amazon owned sites. Our Pre‑Construction Managers are on the forefront of creating and delivering the most innovative products to our customers; and are known for changing the face of cloud computing. As a Pre‑Construction Manager you will support the development and implementation of design standards across regional construction programs and develop new concepts.

We create and release high quality, consistent documentation for processes, standards, and procedures. This role will serve as the primary liaison between Real Estate, Design Engineering, Construction, Procurement and other critical partner teams during initial planning, conceptual design, schematics progress, and design development, providing cost, schedule, and constructability guidance.

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