Global Head of Site Acquisition — Land & Power Strategy

NextDC; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

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Job summary

NextDC is seeking a Head of Site Acquisitions to identify and acquire land to expand NEXTDC’s data centre portfolio and MW capacity across Australia and internationally. You will work with Engineering and Development teams to define site requirements and guide candidate sites through due diligence and approvals.

The role is high visibility, coordinating with NEXTDC executives and stakeholders to drive strategic site acquisitions, power and infrastructure readiness, and compliant development

Qualifications

• Maintaining deepexpertise in land and property acquisition, including negotiation of commercial terms, structuring of conditional contracts, and management of complex multi-party transactions at scale.
• Strong understanding of land, power and water utility infrastructure, including high voltage transmission and distribution systems, power generation and recycled water projects, plus property-law and planning frameworks.
• 15+ years of demonstrated experience in land acquisition, site selection, or strategic property transactions.
• Experience negotiating and executing land transactions with portfolio values typically in the range of $50m to $500m with related commercial, financial, and risk considerations.
• Experience operating across multiple international jurisdictions, including Australia and key Asia Pacific markets.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining deep expertise in real estate markets, linked to site suitability, high-voltage power and large-scale utility connections, and land parcel negotiation.
• Driving the site acquisition recommendation process through to approved acquisition.
• Operating somewhat autonomously as a senior individual contributor—working at the highest planning and commercial level, without direct team management responsibilities.
• Ensuring grid power viability for each prospective site is well understood, teaming with Energy and Water SMEs to ensure utility service providers and authorities are aligned.
• Executing and evolving the site selection framework across the NEXTDC development vision, aligned to market changes, company policy and actual business needs.
• Meeting and negotiating with Government departments, local councils, utility network operators, vendors, contractors, NEXTDC leaders and stakeholders to enable positive land acquisition outcomes and momentum for power and infrastructure conditions required for accelerated development.

Skills

Land acquisition

Negotiation

Site selection

External stakeholder management

International markets knowledge

Job description

NextDC is seeking a Head of Site Acquisitions to identify and acquire land to expand NEXTDC’s data centre portfolio and MW capacity across Australia and internationally. You will work with Engineering and Development teams to define site requirements and guide candidate sites through due diligence and approvals.

The role is high visibility, coordinating with NEXTDC executives and stakeholders to drive strategic site acquisitions, power and infrastructure readiness, and compliant development