VP - Site Acquisitions and Location Strategy

November 12

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Description

• The Vice President, Site Acquisitions is responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive data center site acquisitions strategy to support the Company’s long-term growth and business objectives. • The Vice President, Site Acquisitions will be a key member of the Location and Power Strategy team. • Manages the site acquisitions team; Responsible for all hiring decisions and activities, performance management, coaching and career development. • Develops and implements CyrusOne’s site acquisitions strategy to support the growth objectives of the organization, aligned with CyrusOne’s investment objectives and goals. • Manages relationships with internal and external organizations, government agencies, power utilities, consultants and real estate service providers that support the site acquisitions process. • Identifies and evaluates opportunities to acquire land and maintains a pipeline of land acquisition opportunities in key markets to support the Company’s long-term growth objectives. • Plans, executes, coordinates, and oversees all land acquisition and project development activities from site identification, pre-development, entitlements, permits, tax incentives, power, connectivity, underwriting, financing, and closing. • Develops, documents, and clearly articulates the business case for land acquisition and project development opportunities, providing a solid understanding of overall risks, benefits, and expected financial returns, to gain support from all stakeholders for the execution of these projects.

Requirements

• 10+ years of increasing responsibility in site selection, data center and/or industrial real estate development. • Previous applicable experience working in a commercial negotiation environment with excellent management, negotiation, and influencing skills. • Track record of success effectively supervising, training, mentoring, and evaluating team members at various levels within the organization or team. • Experience in power and energy projects is a plus. • Demonstrated ability to form and drive new market strategies. • Strong negotiation skills: ability to present points of view in an effective way, representing well the interests and position of the organization and gain support for ideas. • Strong team approach: ability to work with different teams in the organization to ensure sound management of site acquisition opportunities from the identification process to the integration of new assets in the organization. • Understanding of Cloud infrastructure and industry is a plus. • Excellent written and oral communications skills.