Project Manager (Data Centers)

buscojobs España; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading real estate company is seeking an experienced Project Manager in Madrid to oversee data centre projects. The role involves strategic leadership, client management, and ensuring project delivery aligns with quality standards and timelines. Candidates should have extensive experience in project management and a proven record in the data centre sector.

Formación

• 10 years experience in project management, focusing on data centre projects.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale projects on time and within budget.

Responsabilidades

• Provide leadership and strategic direction for data center projects.
• Manage project budgets, resources, and timelines effectively.
• Ensure compliance with obligations of contractors and lease agreements.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Decision Making

Communication

Negotiation

Descripción del empleo

Always wanted to challenge the obvious and make great things happen? At Goodman we create space for your greatness.

Our organization is a dynamic and innovative real estate company, serving as both a developer and investor with a primary focus on logistics real estate. We are expanding our portfolio to include cutting-edge data centre development projects and are therefore seeking experienced data centre professionals.

Goodman is seeking an experienced Project Manager (based in Madrid) to join our expanding Data Centre project team. The ideal candidate will oversee the entire lifecycle of the construction process, ensuring the project is delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. You’ll manage high-level planning, coordination, and leadership of multidisciplinary teams, including contractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders. This role involves mitigating risks, monitoring progress, and making critical decisions to resolve issues that arise during the build. The Project Manager also liaises with clients and ensures alignment with the overarching business objectives, maintaining a focus on operational readiness and sustainability.

More concretely, this means you will get the opportunity :

Key Responsibilities : Strategic Project Leadership :

• Provide leadership and strategic direction for data center projects.
• Oversee the entire project life cycle, from tendering to commissioning, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

Client Management :

• Actively engage in negotiations, driving the technical aspects and coordinating discussions with subject matter experts, leading to lease signatures.
• Ensure a seamless transition from commercialization to project delivery, maintaining a positive and collaborative relationship with clients throughout the entire project life cycle.
• Regularly communicate project updates, milestones, and key decisions to clients, ensuring transparency and alignment of expectations.

Project Planning and Execution :

• Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to develop comprehensive project plans, including final design review, tendering, construction, and commissioning processes.
• Manage project budgets, resources, and timelines effectively.
• Establish and implement thorough project controls to ensure early identification of potential issues, providing the greatest chance for effective mitigation.
• Develop robust risk mitigation strategies, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to address challenges promptly.
• Maintain a keen focus on risk management during the commissioning phase, ensuring all potential challenges are anticipated and addressed in a timely manner.

Contractual Oversight :

• Ensure compliance with obligations of both the general contractor and the lease agreements, understanding their implications for project management.
• Strategically manage claims and disputes within FIDIC-based contractual relationships, or similar, collaborating with legal teams to achieve fair and timely resolutions, while maintaining a focus on change order management.
• Effectively oversee change order management, addressing modifications initiated by the end-user and managing responses from general contractors.

Market Experience and Team Building :

• Demonstrate experience in the French market, having successfully delivered projects as a client or general contractor.
• Assemble and lead a newly hired project team while integrating existing team members into the project structure.

Do you recognize yourself?

• 10 years experience in project management, with a focus in data centre projects;
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale projects on time and within budget;
• Strong leadership, decision making, and team-building skills;
• Experience in the French market with a successful project delivery track record;
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.

Not sure if you fit the profile? Let’s find out together!

Let’s introduce ourselves a little more :

Goodman owns, develops, and manages modern industrial real estate including logistics facilities, data centres and business parks in strategic locations around the world. In total, we have a team of around 1,000, located across 5 continents. In Continental Europe we are active in 7 countries, including offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan and Paris.

Contrary to traditional organisations where leadership is based on hierarchy, ours is based on collective leadership, collaborative governance, individual ownership and accountability. Most importantly, we want to make room for growth for everyone to remain agile in responding to the constantly changing world, to increase effectiveness, act with respect and contribute to greatness.

How do we look at the world of tomorrow?

At Goodman we believe we all have a role to play in safeguarding the future for next generations. Therefore, sustainability is the driving force behind everything we do. Not only do we foster a sustainable and inclusive working environment for all our employees but also, throughout all our projects, we are continuously challenging ourselves to make sustainability a reality. All of this is part of Goodman’s DNA and at the centre of everything we do. At Goodman, we believe it’s not enough to talk the talk — we also need to walk the walk!

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