Global Process Owner - Capital Delivery

QTS Data Centers; Suwanee (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

QTS Data Centers is seeking a Global Process Owner for Capital Delivery to own end-to-end planning, governance, and controls across capital projects. You will standardize processes, define KPIs, and lead cross-functional teams to ensure predictable delivery of scope, schedule and cost.

The role requires 5+ years in process ownership or transformation, strong governance skills, and the ability to partner with data, systems, and analytics teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 7-10 yrs of experience in real estate, finance, engineering, project management, or enterprise planning within a complex, high growth environment.
• 5+ years in a process ownership, business transformation, or planning leadership role with governance, standardization, controls, and KPI management.
• Demonstrated success establishing governance, standards, controls, and KPIs in complex environments.
• Experience designing or improving end-to-end planning processes that connect demand, capacity, capital, and operational execution.
• Strong influence skills in matrixed organizations without direct authority.
• Experience partnering with data, systems, and analytics teams to define business requirements, data standards, controls, dashboards, and decision-grade reporting.
• Ability to present findings and recommendations to executive stakeholder audiences.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Microsoft CoPilot.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end accountability for a specific process domain and its design, including process boundaries, decision points, controls, and escalation paths across all processes.
• Define and maintain the end-to-end global process design, scope and taxonomy (L1–L5), with standardized definitions and documentation.
• Enforce process governance with stage gates, reconciliations, approval frameworks, and exception handling.
• Manage intake, prioritization, sequencing and approval of underlying process changes, assessing enterprise impacts, risk, and control implications.
• Ensure governance aligns with enterprise initiative and process governance frameworks.
• Develop and maintain standardized artifacts (process maps, SOPs, calendars, RACIs, KPI definitions).
• Define and govern critical data elements, ownership, lineage, validation rules, and data quality thresholds.
• Sign-off on system changes that impact end-to-end process; translate standards into system requirements.
• Apply and evolve the GPO Playbook for documentation depth, governance rigor, and audit readiness.
• Define and report process KPIs focused on end-to-end cycle times and quality.
• Use analytics to identify bottlenecks, control gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Drive prioritized process improvements and report value realization.
• Support adoption of process standards through training, communications, and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate rollout of process changes with stakeholders and change partners.
• Reinforce disciplined planning and adherence to standards.
• Scope includes enterprise-wide ownership and cross-functional interactions.
• Measure business value of improvements and link to enterprise objectives.
• Initial focus area: Capital Delivery—from initiation to turnover and governance across project lifecycle.

Skills

Process ownership

Governance

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

PMP or PgMP certification

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt/Green Belt

Tools

Microsoft CoPilot

Job description

Who You Are:

The Global Process Owner (GPO) over Capital Delivery is accountable for the design, standardization, governance, and integrity of a critical cross-functional business process across QTS. This role defines the scope of the end‑to‑end process and ensures it is executed effectively, consistently, and with appropriate controls across the global enterprise. It is accountable for tracking the business value realization of improvements to the end‑to‑end process.

The GPO operates within the enterprise GPO operating model, partnering closely with the functional leaders who own the management systems, executive cadences, and outcomes of the underlying work and the GPO Leader (who governs enterprise‑wide process standards and consistency). This role ensures the process design, data, controls, and standards enable business outcomes, are decision‑grade and scalable.

What You Will Do: (Job Responsibilities)

Process Ownership & Governance

Own end‑to‑end accountability for a specific process domain and its design, including process boundaries, decision points, controls, and escalation paths across all processes and subprocesses.

• Define and maintain the end-to-end global process design, scope and taxonomy (L1–L5), including standardized definitions, ownership, handoffs, and documentation aligned with enterprise process standards. Partner with business stakeholders to ensure business process designs effectively meet business objectives.
• Enforce process governance including stage gates, reconciliations, approval frameworks, and exception handling. Establish and lead process council reviews to evaluate process performance, communicate process health and ensure process roadmaps are aligned with executive stakeholder expectations.
• Manage intake, prioritization, sequencing and approval of underlying process changes, assessing enterprise impacts, risk, and control implications.
• Ensure governance for the end‑to‑end process aligns with enterprise initiative and process governance frameworks.

Standards, Controls & Data Integrity

• Develop and maintain standardized artifacts, including process maps, SOPs, calendars, RACIs, control points, and KPI definitions.
• Define and govern critical data elements and assumptions, including ownership, lineage, validation rules, and data quality thresholds in coordination with QTS data owners.
• Hold sign-off authority on system changes that impact the end‑to‑end process. Partner with systems and data teams to translate process standards into system requirements and embedded controls. Influence technology roadmaps to support business process design and support IT teams in technical delivery of any changes to the end‑to‑end process.
• Apply and evolve the GPO Playbook to ensure consistent documentation depth, governance rigor, and audit readiness.

Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

• Define, maintain and report process KPIs focused on end-to‑end process cycle times and process effectiveness, quality and compliance. Clearly link process KPIs to overall QTS enterprise objectives.
• Use analytics and process insights to identify bottlenecks, control gaps, and improvement opportunities. Identify and remediate root causes affecting process health using data‑driven decision making.
• Drive prioritized process improvements that strengthen cycle time, quality, employee experience and profitability. Establish a mechanism for capturing and reporting value realization of process improvements.

Enablement & Adoption

• Support adoption of process standards through training guidance, communications, readiness criteria, and compliance reinforcement.
• Coordinate rollout of process changes with key functional stakeholders and enterprise change partners.
• Reinforce disciplined planning behaviors and adherence to enterprise standards.

Scope and Impact

• Enterprise‑wide ownership and decision rights for end-to‑end process designs, standards, KPIs and controls
• Regular interaction with senior functional leaders; drives process council forums and escalations
• Direct influence on process execution consistency, data integrity, and quality
• Measures the business value of process improvements and demonstrates clear linkage to overall QTS business objectives

Initial Focus Area: Capital Delivery

• The Capital Delivery Global Process Owner is accountable for the end-to‑end processes associated with the planning, development, execution and turnover of capital projects across the QTS portfolio. This orle is responsible for establishing standardized, scalable and controlled processes that enable predictable delivery of capacity, schedule, cost and quality objectives.
• This role’s process scope includes:
• Capital project initiation and governance
• Project intake, prioritization, and funding approvals
• Integrated project planning and scheduling
• Design development and design management
• Procurement and contract administration
• Construction execution and controls
• Change order and risk management
• Cost management and forecasting
• Commissioning and readiness validation
• Asset capitalization and financial closeout
• Turnover to Facilities Operations
• Governance of process handoffs, decision points, controls, roles and accountabilities across Development, Design & Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Finance, Facilities Operations and other stakeholder groups
• Ownership of process requirements related to master data, process controls, metrics, reporting and system integrations supporting the processes

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

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 7 -10 yrs of experience in real estate, finance, engineering, project management, or enterprise planning within a complex, high growth environment
• 5+ years in a process ownership, business transformation, or planning leadership role with demonstrated accountability for governance, standardization, controls, and KPI management
• Demonstrated success establishing governance, standards, controls, and KPIs in complex environments
• Demonstrated experience designing or improving end-to‑end planning processes that connect demand, capacity, capital, and operational execution
• Strong influence skills in matrixed organizations without direct authority
• Demonstrated success partnering with data, systems, and analytics teams to define business requirements, data standards, controls, dashboards, and decision‑grade reporting
• Ability to present findings and recommendations to executive stakeholder audiences
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Microsoft CoPilot

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

• Experience in data center, mission-critical infrastructure, real estate development, utilities, telecommunications or large-scale construction environments
• PMP, PgMP or similar professional certification
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt from an accredited organization

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