Senior Easements Project Manager, Data Centre Supply Solutions (DCSS)

Amazon Data Services UK Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking an experienced Senior Easements Project Manager to oversee the securing of land rights and easements for data center developments. This role involves coordination with various stakeholders and necessitates strong project management and communication skills. The ideal candidate will possess over 10 years of experience in infrastructure real estate delivery and will be comfortable negotiating terms with landowners. The position may include travel to assigned locations and promotes an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working culture

Employee-led affinity groups

Endless mentorship and career resources

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in delivery of infrastructure real estate.
• Ability to engage with municipalities, utilities, and legal professionals.
• Experience in negotiating terms and managing legal processes.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of real estate developments and secure easements.
• Develop relationships to keep projects moving smoothly.
• Manage execution of easement agreements with stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Strong communication skills

Creative problem solving

Engagement with stakeholders

Education

Degree in Real Estate, Civil Engineering or related field

Job description

Various possible locations in addition to London including Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Milan and Dublin.

The Senior Easements Project Manager will be responsible for coordination across a variety of internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of our data center developments. The Senior Easements Project Manager will be a key player in securing easements and all other necessary land rights for the development of our projects.

This role will require periodic travel to assigned geographies.

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities

The Senior Easement Project Manager is part of a team of experts to drive the delivery of real estate developments. They will be responsible for securing the land rights and easements for our critical infrastructure. This will entail working with internal and external stakeholders to manage the execution of easement agreements. Developing the relationships internally and externally to be able to effectively keep each project moving will be key to success. The consistent flow of permits, documentation, agreements, contracts, and signatures through the system to meet deadlines is essential to achieve our targeted scale. Specifically:

• Devise and agree the strategy for delivery of land rights for offsite infrastructure.
• Negotiate terms with landowners.
• Project manage external suppliers negotiating easements.
• Work with teams to manage program and risk.
• Engage in the site selection process to de-risk easement delivery.
• Engage with internal and external legal counsel to ensure swift execution of easement agreements.
• Management of internal and external databases and AWS tools, approvals and reporting systems.

About the team

ABOUT AWS : Diverse Experiences

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Inclusive Team Culture

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• A degree in Real Estate, Civil Engineering or other related field.
• 10+ years experience in delivery of infrastructure real estate. A track record of project management, creative problem solving, and the ability to push past barriers to achieve on time project execution.
• An ability to engage directly with municipalities, utilities, architects, engineers, agents and lawyers.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Fluency in one or more of Spanish, French, German or Italian.
• A background in easement delivery. Data centre development experience.
• Experience working in a large organisation. Experience working internationally in real estate development.
• Experience in negotiating terms and managing the legal process with a variety of landowners.