Energy Strategy & Operations Lead (Data & Reporting)

QTS Realty Trust; Duluth (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

QTS Realty Trust seeks an Energy Strategy Operations Manager to extend the Energy Strategy & Operations team, owning energy data and producing executive-ready reporting for growth planning and capital allocation.

You will oversee data governance, validate cross-functional inputs, and operationalize the strategy with dashboards and scenario analyses in a fast-growing data center environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Data Analytics or a related field with 8+ years of experience.
• Master’s degree (MA/MS/MBA) with 5+ years of relevant energy/utilities, strategy, analytics, or business operations experience.
• Hands-on experience owning datasets, dashboards, and executive/investor reporting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with strong analytical and modeling skills.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise definitions, standards, and controls for energy data including utility capacity, interconnection milestones, load forecasts, energy costs, contracts, constraints, and risks.
• Review and validate energy inputs from Energy, Development, Operations, and Finance; align site realities with enterprise planning.
• Operationalize strategy through metrics, dashboards, and reporting that track power availability vs. demand, sequencing, and risk.
• Drive scenario analysis around load growth, market expansion, utility timelines, and policy changes; provide decision-ready tradeoffs.
• Establish and improve repeatable governance and review processes to reduce late-stage surprises and ad hoc data reconciliation; guide analysts.

Skills

Data governance

Dashboards

Scenario analysis

Executive reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Data Analytics or related field

Master’s degree (MA/MS/MBA) with 5+ years in energy/strategy analytics

Tools

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

QTS Realty Trust seeks an Energy Strategy Operations Manager to extend the Energy Strategy & Operations team, owning energy data and producing executive-ready reporting for growth planning and capital allocation.

You will oversee data governance, validate cross-functional inputs, and operationalize the strategy with dashboards and scenario analyses in a fast-growing data center environment.