Data Centre Fit-Out Construction Project Manager (Customer Delivery)

Digital Edge DC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Edge in Singapore seeks an experienced Customer Delivery Manager to oversee the end-to-end delivery of hyperscale customer projects. You will coordinate with construction, design, and operations to ensure alignment with contractual commitments and delivery milestones, while maintaining strong customer relationships and governance.

The role requires a minimum of 10 years in delivery leadership, with experience in data center environments, hyperscale customers, and a PMP certification.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading end-to-end project delivery in critical environments (Data Center preferred).
• Experience making delivery and commercial decisions balancing schedule, cost and technical trade-offs.
• Experience with hyperscale or large enterprise customers in data centre, cloud, or IT services.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary contact for customers during project delivery, ensuring alignment to commitments and milestones.
• Coordinate with design, construction and operations to align customer requirements with delivery execution.
• Develop and manage delivery programmes and track progress against milestones.
• Manage customer change requests, assessing cost and schedule impact.
• Own handover of facility to customer during RFS and enable smooth BAU transition.

Skills

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Customer facing

Education

PMP certification

Tools

MS Office

MS Project / Aconex

Job description

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Where performance meets sustainability, Digital Edge is a leading provider of sustainable, next-generation, AI-ready digital infrastructure across Asia Pacific. Backed by Stonepeak, a global alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, Digital Edge has over US$1.6 billion in committed equity capital from some of the world ’s largest institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds.

Since our founding in 2020, we have rapidly scaled across key Asia markets, operating 31 data centers with over 1.8GW of secured IT power. We operate as a regional platform delivering consistent global standards, combining scale with strong local execution across every market.

This role is an exciting opportunity to join our fast-growing team as we further expand our footprint across Asia.

Our values:

• Respect: We embrace diversity and collaboration.
• Innovation: We share ideas and solve problems.
• Strive: We are driven and determined.
• Excellence: We seek to deliver the best.
• Responsibility: We do what’s right for our people and the planet.

About the role:

Reporting to the Customer Project Delivery Director, the Customer Delivery Manager (CDM) will act as the primary customer-facing delivery owner for our hyperscale customers, overseeing the successful coordination, integration, and delivery of customer requirements from contract signing through to Ready for Service (RFS).

The role works cross-functionally with construction, design, and operations teams to ensure alignment between customer requirements and delivery execution across the project lifecycle. The role is project-specific and will be locally-based for the duration of the project, providing on-site delivery leadership, supported by a platform-level Customer Project Delivery Director to ensure governance, escalation management, and consistency across projects.

Key responsibilities:

Customer Delivery Management:

• Act as the primary point of contact for customers during project delivery (build phase), RFS, and customer onboarding, ensuring alignment to contractual commitments and delivery milestones
• Support customer engagement during pre-contract stage to support requirements definition and smooth transition into delivery
• Ensure key customer milestones (e.g., Early Access, RFS) and contractual requirements are clearly tracked and achieved
• Deliver regular progress reporting and facilitate customer audits and inspections during project delivery phases
• Proactively manage customer expectations, escalations, and risks to maintain delivery confidence and satisfaction

Requirements Definition and Design Coordination

• Translate customer requirements into a structured scope and work breakdown
• Identify and define what needs to be delivered without performing detailed engineering design
• Coordinate with Design Engineering and Solution Engineering teams to validate technical feasibility and design solutions

Project and Program Management

• Develop and manage delivery programmes covering customer scope and key dependencies
• Track progress against milestones and ensure alignment with overall project timelines

Customer Change Request Management:

• Manage customer change requests, ensuring all customer changes are assessed for cost and schedule impact
• Manage delivery of customer fit-out activities, including vendor coordination, site access, and installation sequencing

Customer Handover and Onboarding

• Own handover of facility to customer during RFSDrive successful customer onboarding, working with Customer Success Management and Operations teams to enable a smooth transition into BAU operations

Key Performance Index

• On-time RFS delivery : % of projects delivered on or before committed RFS date
• Customer satisfaction : Customer satisfaction score (CSAT/NPS) across delivery lifecycle
• Contract adherence: % compliance to contractual scope with minimal deviations, cost deviations, or disputes
• Successful customer onboarding : % of onboarding milestones achieved on time with minimal escalations or rework

The successful candidate:

Technical and Delivery Capabilities

• 10+ years of experience leading and owning end-to-end project delivery within critical operating environments (Data Center preferred)
• Experience making delivery and commercial decisions and managing trade-offs across schedule, cost, and technical constraints
• Experience working with hyperscale or large enterprise customers in data centre, cloud, or IT services
• Strong understanding of data centre infrastructure, especially electrical & mechanical services
• Able to define scope and work breakdown, and coordinate engineering inputs

Customer and Stakeholder Management

• Strong customer-facing experience, having operated as a primary interface in delivery environment
• Customer-oriented, with a proactive approach to ensuring high-quality delivery and satisfaction
• Proven ability to navigate multi-stakeholder environments across internal teams, vendors, and customer organisations
• Able to manage escalations, conflicts, and competing priorities

Tools and Qualifications

• Proficient in MS Office, MS Project / Aconex (or similar)
• Project Management (PMP) certification preferred