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About the Role
The Program Director is responsible for leading the front-end development lifecycle of new data center opportunities across APAC, from site identification through land acquisition and execution readiness. This role coordinates internal and external stakeholders, drives due diligence, investment decision-making, and governance processes to maximize site conversion and ensure development opportunities align with Vantage's strategic growth objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the APAC Investment Council, driving strategic investment decisions, prioritization of development opportunities and portfolio growth initiatives across the region.
- Lead and manage all aspects of technical and commercial due diligence and front-end planning for new development projects, including site assessments, feasibility studies, conceptual design, due diligence workstreams, power and fibre strategy development, entitlement, and permitting activities.
- Provide strategic leadership, thought partnership, and executive-level guidance on key projects and initiatives, including budget management, schedule oversight, risk mitigation, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
- Drive cross-functional alignment between development, investment, operations, legal, finance, and commercial teams to ensure successful project execution and achievement of regional growth objectives.
- Lead the definition and execution of due diligence programs for complex infrastructure development opportunities, ensuring key technical, commercial, regulatory, and delivery risks are identified, appropriately investigated, and assessed to support investment, acquisition, and development decision-making.
- Serve as the primary owner of front-end development activities, driving opportunities from site identification through land acquisition by coordinating due diligence, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and investment approvals to improve conversion of site selection opportunities.
- Lead all early-stage project development and due diligence activities, including site selection, feasibility assessments, conceptual design, utility strategy (power, water, and fiber), permitting pathways, commercial assessments, risk evaluations, and investment approval processes.
- Interpret technical findings and provide development and commercial recommendations and risk mitigation strategies to support acquisitions.
- Act as the central point of integration across internal and external stakeholders undertaking due diligence, ensuring alignment, accountability, and timely decision-making throughout the development lifecycle.
- Provide executive oversight and portfolio governance across the APAC development pipeline, delivering regular updates to Executive Leadership on project progress, risks, schedules, budgets, quality, financial performance, cash flow, and critical decisions required to achieve business objectives.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across Site Selection, Development, Operations, Finance, Legal, Commercial, Procurement, Design, Engineering and Construction, and Executive Leadership teams to define project requirements, resolve issues, manage risks, and support informed investment decisions.
- Lead and manage relationships with external consultants, landowners, contractors, utilities, government authorities, regulatory agencies, and industry stakeholders to secure successful project outcomes and maintain development momentum.
- Drive project outcomes from concept through execution readiness, establishing scope, schedule, budget, governance frameworks, consultant engagement strategies, and business case approvals while maintaining alignment with strategic objectives and investment criteria.
- Oversee portfolio reporting and governance, ensuring leadership maintains full visibility of pipeline health, site conversion performance, project risks, costs, schedules, market dynamics, and capital deployment priorities.
- Identify and mitigate development, permitting, commercial, infrastructure, and execution risks to support successful project advancement and informed investment decisions.
- Lead contract governance, performance reporting, and financial management activities, ensuring robust controls, risk management, and informed decision-making across the portfolio.
- Champion continuous improvement by incorporating lessons learned, market intelligence, industry trends, and best practices to enhance development processes, strengthen governance, and support Vantage's long-term growth strategy across APAC.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing complex development, infrastructure, construction, or real estate projects, ideally in a client-side environment.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities, work independently, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience across APAC markets, particularly Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Australia, is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of site acquisition, due diligence, planning, permitting, and utility infrastructure (power and fibre).
- Exceptional stakeholder management, negotiation, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior leaders and external partners.
- Flexibility to travel regularly across APAC.
- Adaptable, self-motivated, and comfortable working across multiple time zones, cultures, and remote environments.
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Negotiation
- Presentation
- Relationship-building
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Influencing senior leaders
- Influencing external partners
- Site acquisition
- Due diligence
- Planning
- Permitting
- Utility infrastructure (power and fibre)
- Budget management
- Schedule oversight
- Risk mitigation
- Business case development
- Investment analysis
- Project management
Location
- APAC
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree in Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, Business, or a related field preferred.
Benefits
- Above market total compensation package
- Comprehensive suite of health and welfare benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations
- Training and development opportunities
- Recognition programs
About the Company
- Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises.
- Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.
- We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance.
- We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses.
- We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do.
Equal Opportunity
- Vantage is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.