Corporate Development, Senior Manager

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. 

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary 

The Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development drives and supports Americas’ strategic planning, portfolio strategy, location strategy, asset management, strategic initiatives, and new business development. They are expected to build strong collaborative partnerships with many major, internal functions. 

 
Responsibilities 
Portfolio Strategy & Asset Management 

• Develops asset management optimization and prioritization strategies, including expansion, contraction, disposition, and reconfiguration of sites

• Develops relative prioritization for both further investment in current footprints and for new potential geographic expansions 

• Helps develop metro and regional capacity strategies and support capex forecasts on planned development 

• Identifies and prioritizes development of new business cases for expansion 

• Alongside internal business partners, prioritizes and ensures the timely investment roadmap for investment to refresh/upgrade sites, mindful of end-of-life infrastructure and mitigation of single points of failure 

• Develop points of view and proposed action plans regarding metro- and site-level performance, include prioritization and roadmap of site closures and divestments; partnering with the PMO Office to onboard identified site migrations and exits into such processes 

• Supports near- and long-term capacity plans and maintain inventory roadmaps 

• Oversees the financial modeling and development of presentations 

• Develops and presents investment proposals to executive management 

• Reviews ad hoc financial analysis and supports investment analysis for other business units including M&A, Commercial Finance Business Development, and others 

 
Strategic Planning and Development 

• Manages the annual strategic planning process in conjunction with the Regional and Corporate teams; leading key initiatives during the annual strategy planning process 

• Develops strategy/business cases for strategic initiatives, sells into organization, leads and manages cross-functional program teams, and raises/resolves issues 

• Drives competitive and market research to track and synthesize competitors’/partners’ initiatives, key trends, and disruptions across the ecosystem (e.g., data centers, connectivity providers, independent power providers, hyperscalers, neo-clouds) to deliver insights that inform strategy and action-planning; partnering with global Market Intelligence team for research 

• Evaluates and (in some cases) spearheads corporate development opportunities, partnering with Finance, Marketing and other operating areas

• Develops strategies to capture significant benefit from the proliferation of AI inference 

• Takes on a wide variety of roles, depending on the project 

• Delivers presentations to senior management on key initiatives 

 
Project and Program Management 

• Works with leadership to identify business issues requiring project management 

• Develops Executive staff and Board-level presentation materials 

• Identifies, designs, prioritizes, manages and reports on complex strategic initiatives across the business 

• Leads efforts on internal consulting projects focused on new markets/products, growth initiatives and profitability improvements 

• Runs interdepartmental working group meetings with little or no supervision 

• Helps kick-off meetings and hosts sections of cross-departmental meetings as needed <