Energy Strategy & Operations Manager

qtsdatacenters; Duluth (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

QTS Data Centers is seeking an Energy Strategy Operations Manager to act as a senior extension to the Director, Energy Strategy & Operations, operationalizing energy strategy and maintaining a trusted view of power availability, interconnection status, load growth, and costs.

You will own energy datasets, validate inputs with cross-functional teams, and produce executive, board, and Blackstone-ready reports, dashboards, and scenario analyses to inform growth, capital allocation, and risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Data Analytics with 8+ years of experience or a Master's degree with 5+ years in energy/utilities, strategy, analytics, or business operations.
• Hands-on experience owning datasets, dashboards, and executive/investor reporting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with strong analytical and modeling skills.
• Proven ability to coordinate and influence cross-functional stakeholders and produce executive-ready materials.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise definitions, standards, and controls for energy- and power-related data, including utility capacity, interconnection milestones, load forecasts, energy costs, contracts, constraints, and risks.
• Maintain the single source of truth for energy metrics used in executive, board, and investor reporting.
• Review and validate energy inputs from Energy, Development, Operations, and Finance to ensure site-level realities align with enterprise planning assumptions.
• Surface delivery risks, timing mismatches, and tradeoffs early to the Director.
• Operationalize the energy strategy through metrics, dashboards, and reporting that track power availability versus demand, development sequencing, and execution risk.
• Produce and own energy-related executive, board, and Blackstone materials.
• Drive scenario analysis around load growth, market expansion, utility timelines, and policy changes; provide decision-ready tradeoffs and risk assessments.
• Establish and improve governance and review processes; guide analysts and raise the quality bar; perform other duties as assigned.

Job description

The Energy Strategy Operations Manager acts as a senior extension to the Director, Energy Strategy & Operations, helping operationalize QTS' energy strategy and maintain a single, trusted, forward-looking view of power availability, interconnection status, load growth, infrastructure readiness, costs, risks, and constraints. Reporting to the Director, this role owns and governs assigned energy datasets, leads cross-functional validation of energy inputs, and produces the executive-, board-, and Blackstone-ready reporting and scenario analysis that inform growth, development sequencing, customer commitments, and capital allocation in a rapidly scaling environment.

What You Will Do: (Job Responsibilities)

Energy Data Ownership & Governance

• Own enterprise definitions, standards, and controls for assigned energy- and power-related data - utility capacity, interconnection milestones, load forecasts, energy costs, contracts , constraints, and risks.


• Help maintain the single source of truth for energy metrics used in executive, board, and Blackstone reporting.

Cross-Functional Energy Operations Review

• Review and validate energy inputs from Energy, Development, Operations, and Finance, ensuring site-level realities align with enterprise planning assumptions .


• Surface delivery risks, timing mismatches, and tradeoffs early to the Director.

Energy Strategy Execution & Reporting

• Operationalize the strategy through clear metrics, dashboards, and reporting that track power availability versus demand, development sequencing, and execution risk.


• Produce and own assigned energy-related executive, board, and Blackstone materials.

Forward-Looking Scenario & Capacity Planning

• Drive scenario analysis around load growth, market expansion, utility timelines, alternative energy solutions, and policy changes.


• Provide leadership with decision-ready tradeoffs and risk assessments that inform development sequencing, customer commitments, and capital allocation.

Governance & Capability Building

• Establish and improve repeatable governance and review processes that reduce late-stage surprises and ad hoc data reconciliation; guide analysts and raise the quality bar.


• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need to Be Successful: (Required Qualifications, Education, Experience, Certifications)

Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Data Analytics or a field related with 8+ years of experience or a

Master's degree (MA/MS/MBA) with 5+ years of relevant experience in energy/utilities, strategy, analytics, or business operations.

Hands-on experience owning datasets, dashboards, and executive / investor reporting.

Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with strong analytical and modeling skills.

Proven ability to coordinate and influence cross-functional stakeholders and produce executive-ready materials.

Nice to Have: (Preferred Qualifications, Education, Experience, Certifications)

• Master's degree (MA/MS/MBA) is preferred.


• Working knowledge of power markets, utility interconnection, load forecasting, energy costs, or generation / infrastructure technologies.


• Power BI or similar BI / visualization tools; experience with structured data governance and management.


• Program/portfolio management or data-governance experience.


• Experience in energy, utilities, power, infrastructure, or large-scale data center / service-provider environments; strategy & operations or chief-of-staff exposure.

Other Key Skills: (KSAs)

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.


• Strong ability to translate energy data and strategy into structured, decision-ready insights.


• Working command of data governance, dashboards, scenario analysis, and executive / investor reporting.


• Ability to coordinate and influence across a matrixed, cross-functional organization.


• Comfort operating in a fast-growing, dynamic, and often ambiguous environment.


• Unwavering commitment to customer service and QTS core values (Integrity, Character, Trust; Action, Innovation, Accountability; Team).

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