Projects Director – Data Centre’s

Projects Director – Data Centre’s

The company
DataX Connect have partnered with a leading Engineering, Design and Project Management Consultancy in their search for a Projects Director to lead and grow their data centre portfolio in the UK and Europe.

You will be managing a team of Design Engineers and Project Managers, delivering large design management programmes on DC’s across the UK and Europe.

The role:

• Overseeing the successful delivery of multiple Data Centre projects from initiation to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Developing and implementing project management methodologies, processes, and tools to optimise project delivery and ensure consistency across the portfolio.
• Providing guidance and support to ensure project success.
• Ensuring decisions are made in a timely manner with due consideration to risk and uncertainty.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, including architects, engineers, and sub consultants, to ensure effective project coordination and communication.
• Developing and maintaining strong client relationships – acting as the main point of contact for clients throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities within the Data Centre sector, including expanding existing client relationships and establishing partnerships with new clients.
• Conducting market research and analysis to stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and the competitive landscape.
• Preparation and delivery of presentations to clients, stakeholders, and senior management to communicate project status, key milestones, and business development strategies.
• Monitoring project performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing corrective actions as necessary.

You will have:

• Extensive experience in managing and delivering Data Centre projects alongside project management and people management experience.
• Strong leadership and management skills to enable you to be a proactive part of the Mission Critical management team working alongside and providing support to the wider team in the development of overall objectives.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence strategic decision-making within the business and make commercial decisions within defined parameters (delivers to agreed project scope, time, cost and quality).
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work with complex technical topics and to adapt your style to suit different audiences.
• Extensive experience of relevant tender processes with the ability to understand the brief and demonstrate our professional capability.
• The ability to engage with key stakeholders to gain commitment and to influence the acceptance of innovative ideas and concepts in respect of change plans.
• Excellent client relationship skills with the ability to gain insight beyond a customer’s immediate need to identify opportunities that benefit the customer through meaningful and productive relationships.
• The ability to work across multi-discipline environments primarily within UK business, and also other business Regions, and generate business from leads.
• Experience of delivering across a multi-site organisation.
• Chartered membership of a relevant professional institution eg Project Management, MEP, Civils or Structures.

Why apply?

• A chance to lead and grow and team of high performing design and project management specialists.
• Offers genuine workplace flexibility.
• Excellent career development opportunities.
• Opportunity to work for a company that operates globally.