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About the Role

The Director, Portfolio Management (m/f/d) plays a critical leadership role within Global Portfolio Management, responsible for structuring, executing, and actively managing third-party investment in EMEA greenfield data centre assets. The role spans the full development lifecycle, from origination and feasibility through financing, construction, delivery, and stabilisation. The position serves as a strategic partner to investors, senior leadership, and key internal functions including Finance, Legal, Construction, Design, and Power.

Responsibilities

Oversee the financial performance of JV and assets, including development entities
Support equity processes, shareholder funding, and distributions
Ensure compliance with key agreements, including JV, funding, operator, and third party covenants
Assess the financial impact of key business decisions related to JVs, customer contracts, suppliers, pricing, and development timing
Lead, together with relevant teams, asset level financial strategies to ensure sustainable financing, liquidity, and compliance
Oversee financial and financing models including base case, downside scenarios, covenant headroom and sensitivity analyses
Ensure the team aligns models with development progress, leasing assumptions, capex phasing, and financing structures
Assess and communicate financial risks, mitigants, and downside scenarios to senior management and investors
Challenge development business cases (IRR, NPV, yields, cost curves) for greenfield and expansion projects
Analyse liquidity requirements, and funding sources across multi year development plans
Act as partner to internal teams and external investors on strategies, and investment decision making
Lead project finance and corporate financing processes for new and existing data center assets, including initial bank financings, refinancings, and amendments
Lead the commercial and legal negotiation of financing packages, including debt terms, covenants, security structures, and conditions precedent
Coordinate and support hedging strategies (interest rate swaps, caps, floors)
Own financing related workstreams with lenders, their advisors, shareholders, and internal stakeholders
Manage liquidity, debt levels, covenant compliance, reporting obligations, compliance, and lender interactions under SFAs and ancillary agreements
Prepare and present board level and investor reporting, providing clear and pragmatic financial insights to support investment and development decisions
Support audits, lender reviews, and due diligence processes
Manage or oversee JV finance functions including budgeting, cash management, planning, accounting coordination, year end closing, and reporting
Act as a business partner, not only a reporting function, actively challenging assumptions and supporting decision making

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical discipline (Master’s degree or MBA preferred/CFA)
Multiple years of relevant experience in infrastructure, real estate, private equity, investment banking, or project finance
Proven experience working with institutional investors, joint ventures, and complex capital structures
Strong track record in financial modelling, valuation, and investment analysis
Experience in data centres, energy, infrastructure, or large-scale development projects is required
Ability to work independently and cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment

Skills

Advanced Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, modeling)
Strong PowerPoint skills for executive-ready presentations
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience with financial systems (e.g., SAP, Yardi) is a plus
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Location

EMEA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Master's degree
MBA
CFA

Benefits

Rewarding benefits for everyone

About the Company

As the third largest data center provider, we operate over 150 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions.
We offer local-to-global data center expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centers to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime.
Data centers are the foundation of the digital world and at NTT Global Data Centers, we are one of the largest providers across the globe.
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 our global capabilities and local expertise, we help our 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.