About the Role
Lead overall governance, client relationship management, commercial performance, financial oversight, and service delivery assurance for a mission-critical data center account. Ensure the account meets contractual obligations, SLAs, KPIs, compliance requirements, and financial targets by coordinating stakeholders, vendors, and support teams.
Responsibilities
- Own overall account delivery, ensuring services are governed, measured, and delivered in line with contractual requirements, client expectations, and Cushman & Wakefield standards.
- Act as the primary account leadership point for the client, maintaining clear ownership of account performance, priorities, risks, actions, and service improvement plans.
- Maintain account plans, governance routines, reporting cadence, meeting rhythms, decision logs, issue trackers, and escalation pathways.
- Ensure account scope, service commitments, SLAs, KPIs, compliance obligations, and reporting requirements are understood, tracked, and communicated.
- Own account financial governance, including budget tracking, forecast inputs, spend control, cost reporting, purchase order visibility, and commercial risk escalation.
- Monitor account financial performance against budget, forecasts, contractual assumptions, and approved spend, identifying variances, risks, savings opportunities, and corrective actions.
- Oversee procurement, invoicing, and vendor commercial administration through coordination with finance and admin support teams.
- Support account profitability, cost discipline, and value-for-money outcomes by reviewing resource plans, vendor costs, service changes, and recurring expenditure.
- Oversee SLA, KPI, audit, compliance, and reporting processes to ensure account performance is visible, accurate, and actionable.
- Ensure service risks, compliance findings, audit actions, client commitments, and contractual obligations are tracked through to closure.
- Review and validate regular account performance reports covering service delivery, financial performance, risk status, vendor performance, incidents, actions, and improvement plans.
- Provide account-level oversight of vendors, suppliers, and service partners to ensure performance, compliance, and commercial expectations are met.
- Act as the senior escalation point for service-impacting risks, client concerns, financial issues, vendor constraints, compliance matters, and unresolved operational dependencies.
- Maintain oversight of incident, problem, and change management from an account impact perspective, ensuring client communication and follow-up actions are well governed.
- Lead the account team by setting priorities, clarifying responsibilities, supporting development, and aligning resources to account commitments.
- Drive continuous improvement across governance, financial control, stakeholder experience, reporting quality, vendor management, and service delivery maturity.
Requirements
- Minimum 6+ years of experience in account management, facilities management, data center operations, service delivery management, or contract management within a mission-critical environment.
- Proven experience owning account governance, client relationships, service performance reviews, stakeholder management, and escalation management in a client-facing environment.
- Strong account ownership, governance, and client relationship management capability across multiple stakeholders and service lines.
- Strong financial and commercial awareness, including budget tracking, forecasting inputs, cost control, invoice and procurement oversight, and commercial risk management.
- Proven ability to manage and deliver against SLAs and KPIs.
- Structured leadership style with the ability to prioritize account risks, make balanced decisions, and escalate service, commercial, and client issues appropriately.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to lead governance reviews and communicate clearly with client stakeholders, internal leadership, vendors, and support functions.
- Process-driven and detail-oriented, with strong organizational discipline, stakeholder coordination, financial oversight, and continuous improvement capability.
- Experience managing teams, vendors, and cross-functional support functions, including finance and admin, technical operations, procurement, compliance, and service delivery teams.
- Familiarity with data center service delivery, facilities management, SLA/KPI reporting, risk management, compliance frameworks, audit processes, and vendor governance.
Skills
- Account Management
- Facilities Management
- Data Center Operations
- Service Delivery Management
- Contract Management
- Client Relationship Management
- Financial Oversight
- Commercial Performance
- Governance
- SLA Management
- KPI Management
- Compliance
- Budget Tracking
- Forecasting
- Cost Control
- Procurement
- Vendor Management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Escalation Management
- Team Leadership
- Continuous Improvement
- Communication Skills
Experience Level
- 6+ years of experience
Education Level
- Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Facilities Management, Engineering, Finance, IT, or a related discipline.
About the Company
- Cushman & Wakefield
