Senior Product Benchmarking & Performance Lead

Vantage Data Centers LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantage Data Centers LLC is seeking a Senior Manager, Product Performance Benchmarking to establish a governable benchmarking capability at the heart of our global data center platform. You will define methodologies that connect capital cost, schedule, sustainability, and operational costs across regions and configurations.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Delivery, Operations, Procurement, Sustainability, and Analytics, translating requirements into

Qualifications

• Benchmarking and cost intelligence: 8–12 years in cost management, quantity surveying, preconstruction, owner’s representative, project controls, infrastructure benchmarking, or equivalent capital-project performance role.
• Capital project modeling: Demonstrated experience building or governing cost, schedule, or TCO models for complex capital programs, including unit rates, quantities, escalation, regional factors, configuration deltas, and confidence ranges.
• Lifecycle performance orientation: Ability to connect capital cost, schedule, energy, operational cost, maintainability, and sustainability factors into a decision-ready view of product performance.
• Continuous learning: Experience comparing benchmarks to actual delivery outcomes and translating variance into actionable recommendations for design, procurement, delivery, or product roadmap decisions.
• Commercial decision support: Proven ability to use benchmarking outputs to inform RFPs, ROM business cases, customer discussions, pricing, procurement strategy, or executive trade-off decisions.
• Governance and adoption: Experience establishing standards, methodologies, or controls that multiple functions or regions were expected to adopt.
• Consultant and stakeholder leadership: Credibility to challenge external consultants, internal customers, and senior stakeholders on assumptions, methodology, and fitness for use.
• Data partnership: Working knowledge of structured data, reporting requirements, dashboards, or analytics workflows, with ability to partner with data teams without needing to personally own BI engineering.
• Communication: Ability to explain assumptions, movement, confidence levels, limits, and recommended decisions clearly to technical, commercial, and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define the governed benchmarking methodology, baseline assumptions, performance measures, and usage rules Vantage applies globally to configure, cost, schedule, approve, manage, and measure project performance across Product, Engineering, Delivery, Operations, and Sustainability.
• Own the benchmark roadmap across platform, product, regional baselines, configurations, and future product extensions.
• Translate Product, Procurement, Preconstruction, Project Controls, and Sustainability requirements into benchmark scope.
• Lead consultant engagement, reviewing methodology, assumptions, confidence bands, and deliverables.
• Own the WBS/CBS and schedule structure from a product, business-adoption, and use perspective.
• Govern baseline, regional variant, configuration bridge, and factor-pack logic.
• Partner with key stakeholders to incorporate market intelligence, supplier input, and realized cost factors into benchmark updates where appropriate.
• Define target audiences, provide business interpretation, and set reporting requirements for benchmark outputs to senior stakeholders, while partnering with analytics roles on dashboard build and data automation.
• Decide when benchmark outputs are fit for use in RFPs, ROM business cases, customer discussions, product decisions, and executive reporting.
• Own what decisions the benchmark enables and state clearly where confidence is insufficient.

Skills

Benchmarking & cost intelligence

Capital project modeling

Lifecycle performance

Commercial decision support

Governance & adoption

Consultant & stakeholder leadership

Data partnership

Communication

Tools

BI tools

Estimating platforms

Job description

Vantage Data Centers LLC is seeking a Senior Manager, Product Performance Benchmarking to establish a governable benchmarking capability at the heart of our global data center platform. You will define methodologies that connect capital cost, schedule, sustainability, and operational costs across regions and configurations.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Delivery, Operations, Procurement, Sustainability, and Analytics, translating requirements into