Data Center Capacity Planner

Global Data Centers Americas, Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT Global Data Centers is seeking a Capacity Assignment Specialist to drive the global capacity strategy by coordinating with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Operations. You will allocate space and power to opportunities while ensuring governance compliance and data accuracy across DCIM, CRM/CPQ, and ERP systems.

You will monitor utilization, manage holds and commits, and support planning with timely, informed reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, operations, analytics, engineering, or related field.
• Multiple years of experience in inventory management, capacity planning, reporting, or analytics roles.
• Working knowledge of data center space, power, and cooling fundamentals.
• Experience in data center, cloud, telecommunications, or infrastructure-focused organizations preferred.
• Familiarity with enterprise systems such as DCIM, CMDB, CRM/CPQ, ERP, and analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting sales-facing or operational planning functions preferred.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret inventory data and capacity models.
• Experience collaborating with Sales, Operations, and Planning teams.
• Strong reporting and data validation capabilities.
• High attention to detail and disciplined process orientation.

Responsibilities

• Capacity Assignment & Sales Support with Sales and Solutions teams to allocate space and power per capacity policies.
• Validate availability against the capacity ledger and manage holds, reservations, and commits.
• Provide timely confirmations and escrow conflicts or allocation risks.
• Identify oversubscription or stranded capacity issues.
• Monitor space and power utilization and highlight inefficiencies.
• Analyze consolidation or reallocation opportunities to improve usable inventory.
• Partner with Operations to validate constraints and support capacity improvements.
• Maintain reporting on inventory availability, utilization, and reservation status.
• Prepare inputs for weekly capacity reviews and monthly planning forums.
• Support sales forecasting by aligning pipeline demand with inventory.
• Ensure governance processes and change control standards are followed.
• Maintain data accuracy across planning systems (DCIM, CRM/CPQ, ERP).
• Document allocation decisions and inventory changes per policy.
• Assist process improvements for reporting and workflow efficiency.

Skills

Analytical skills

Inventory management

Capacity planning

Sales/ops collaboration

Data interpretation

Reporting

Process discipline

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/operations/analytics/engineering

Tools

DCIM

CMDB

CRM/CPQ

ERP

Job description

NTT Global Data Centers is seeking a Capacity Assignment Specialist to drive the global capacity strategy by coordinating with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Operations. You will allocate space and power to opportunities while ensuring governance compliance and data accuracy across DCIM, CRM/CPQ, and ERP systems.

You will monitor utilization, manage holds and commits, and support planning with timely, informed reporting.