Delivery Director - Frankfurt (Hyperscale Data Center)

Germany - Frankfurt

Posted: 16 / 09 / 2025

Salary: £190K per Year

ID: 36582_BH

Delivery Director - Frankfurt (Hyperscale Data Center)

Role Overview

As Delivery Director based in Frankfurt, you'll lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale hyperscale data center projects, guiding them from shovel-ready status through to commissioning and handover. You'll manage General Contractors and multi-disciplinary teams in civil / structural (CSA) and MEP construction, ensuring performance, compliance, and cost-efficiency at mega-scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coaching, and empowerment to a cross-functional delivery team in alignment with corporate strategy;
• Oversee entitlement, permitting, design, construction, commissioning, and project close-out phases;
• Drive standardisation of delivery methods to accelerate delivery timelines, reduce costs, and maintain consistent quality;
• Develop and refine scalable tools, templates, and procedures for repeatable success;
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Procurement, Engineering, Finance, Sales, and executive leadership to align priorities and expedite decision-making;
• Lead project budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis in partnership with Finance teams;
• Manage GC / vendor relationships, qualification, RFPs, MSAs, and project authorisations;
• Support customer / sales engagement around delivery timelines, compliance, and service handover;
• Ensure all construction meets the Basis of Design (BOD), specifications, codes, and operational readiness;
• Act as escalation point for resourcing, workflows, and QA / QC across all project stages;

Prepare and present approval packages for executive review and sign-off.

Ideal Profile

• 7-10 years in leadership roles within construction / delivery of hyperscale or mission-critical data center infrastructure;
• Deep mastery of CSA and MEP construction management at scale;
• Strong, inspirational leadership with team development and harmonisation skills;
• Excellent communicator, fluent in German and English;
• Frankfurt-based and available on-site 4-5 days a week;

Able and willing to travel as needed.