About the Role
The Vice President, Global Bid Management leads regional bid management and global content management teams to execute the end-to-end bid lifecycle. This strategic deal advisor will disseminate business objectives into a global pursuit strategy, driving speed to market with high-quality outputs and ensuring strong stakeholder relationships. The role serves as the global escalation point for deal pursuits, requiring deep understanding of complex negotiations and deal forms.
Responsibilities
- Participates in executive reviews and provide strategic guidance on competitive positioning, pricing considerations, and risk posture in active bid pursuits or sales strategy development.
- Implement the standardized global bid lifecycle inclusive of objective bid/no-bid criteria and execution frameworks.
- Partners with Global Product, Global Marketing & Finance to effectively outline business guardrails and governance that enables effective resource prioritization.
- Takes full accountability for organizational performance, utilization, and long-term strategic direction of Bid Management, including future operating model evolution aligned to business growth and market demands.
- Maintains deep, executive-level relationships with key internal and external stakeholders (globally), including clients and partners.
- Anticipates and defines organizational-level problem statements, driving cross-regional and cross-functional solutions that improve revenue, margin, scalability, and the end-to-end client experience.
- Define clear roles, responsibilities, performance expectations, and career development paths for team members.
- Established global executive network and recognized industry presence including representing GDC as a thought leader and executive voice in the industry, influencing market dialogue, strategic partnerships, and client confidence through keynote participation, panels, and executive forums.
- Interacts with ELT and external executive stakeholders, including hyperscale and strategic clients, on matters of highest complexity and significance to the organization.
- Serves as the ultimate escalation authority for Bid Management and delivery matters; aligns executive stakeholders across functions to drive enterprise outcomes.
Requirements
- Progressive experience in bid management, deal negotiation and global customer engagement, preferably in a data center/cloud environment.
- Proven executive leadership in complex, client-facing environments.
- Strong understanding of complex deal structures, including proven experience of executing Data Center transactions.
- Understanding of data center market trends and risks such as regulatory demands, AI demand, power constraints and sustainability.
- Experience leading and building high-performing multi-disciplinary, geographically distributed teams.
- Strong affinity for sales, proposal development, and the drafting and interpretation of legal documents, commercial terms, and contract solutions aligned with a strategic mindset.
- IT Industry, business or role relevant degree.
Skills
- Bid Management
- Deal Negotiation
- Global Customer Engagement
- Complex Deal Structures
- Data Center Transactions
- Data Center Market Trends
- Risk Management
- Leadership
- Team Building
- Sales
- Proposal Development
- Legal Document Interpretation
- Commercial Terms
- Contract Solutions
- Stakeholder Management
- Complex Negotiation
Location
- Flexible/Remote
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- Executive
Education Level
- Degree in IT, business, or a relevant role.
About the Company
- NTT Global Data Centers is the third largest data center provider, operating over 150 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions.
- We offer local-to-global data center expertise, aligned with a connected platform of AI-ready data centers to create solutions that enable clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses.
- Data centers are the foundation of the digital world, and NTT Global Data Centers is one of the largest providers globally.
- We offer a wide variety of exciting and challenging careers that deliver opportunities to shape our ever-changing world.
- Our diverse, inspiring workforce is the heart and soul of our company, providing the best experience for our clients every day.
- By bringing together global capabilities and local expertise, we help clients achieve their goals anywhere in the world.
- Together, we can accomplish the extraordinary and work to create a more sustainable world with rewarding benefits for everyone - clients, employees, investors, partners, and communities.
