VP, U.S. National Data Center Practice Lead

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a highly experienced and results-oriented practice/market leader for its national data center practice to lead AECOM’s growth in this sector.  This is an excellent opportunity for a driven and experienced leader to grow a multidisciplinary, multi-national team, leveraging the breadth of AECOM’s global capabilities.  This leader will have the ability to take what has already been built and organize, grow, and take it to new levels of service and revenue.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• High quality, timely, and profitable delivery of US national data center due diligence and design project portfolio.
• Influence and implement a US data center market strategy, utilizing AECOM’s global teams and capabilities
• Manage or provide oversight on a portfolio of projects or programs of significant size and complexity, and significant financial impact. 
• Lead and grow data center due diligence, design, and construction administration team and practice
• Work closely and collaboratively with AECOM’s Global and Regional Market Sector Leaders (Europe, India, MEA, Asia, ANZ, etc.) to share resources, augment capabilities, and bring the best of AECOM to each and every project.
• Hire new staff and cross-train existing staff to deliver data center due diligence and design projects, fostering a culture of trust, accountability, leadership, and ownership within the team
• Grow existing clients in partnership with global technology market sector leader and technology client account managers
• Participate in and help drive innovation workstreams to differentiate AECOM and address market changes, challenges, and opportunities (i.e. design automation, decarbonization, renewable energy, liquid cooling, rack densification, etc.)
• Oversee production of winning proposals (both technical and cost)
• Prepare and lead client presentations and interviews
• Refine existing delivery strategies to improve predictability, quality, and efficiency.
• Serve as point of escalation for all US data center client issues.
• Collaborate with Project and Program Management (PPM) business line to create synergies with AECOM’s construction management, commissioning, and quantity surveying practices.
• Collaborate with Environment business line to deliver site selection due diligence services.
• Build US relationships with senior leaders at global data center companies alongside the global technology market sector leader and technology client account managers
• Attract and secure new data center clients and build the opportunity pipeline alongside the global technology market sector leader and technology client account managers
• Travel as-needed to support project, client, and team needs.
• KPIs for this role would include project bookings, executed net service revenue, gross margin, and quality.
• Provide thought leadership ideas internally and externally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical or related Engineering/Architecture
• 12 years of progressively increasing responsibility and experience delivering large and hyper-scale data center designs
• Licensed Professional Engineer
• Experience leading teams
• Demonstrated experience developing strong client relationships

Additional Information

• Relocation is not available
• Sponsorship is available

About AECOM

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