Senior Commercial Manager

🕒 March 25

🏢🏡 Chicago – Hybrid

💵 $150k - $224k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Equinix

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1998

📡 Telecommunications

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Telecommunications • Enterprise • SaaS

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, responsible for interconnecting industry-leading organizations across a digital-first world. They offer a broad range of services including data centers, colocation, ecosystem discovery, digital and interconnection services, which support businesses in achieving their sustainability goals with net-zero ready IT infrastructure. Equinix connects partners, places, and possibilities rapidly and securely, facilitating user experience through low latency, high bandwidth, and automation for multicloud environments. Their platform is leveraged for resilience and competitive advantage in merging digital ecosystems across numerous industries, such as financial, telecommunications, manufacturing, and commercial markets globally. Furthermore, Equinix focuses on sustainable digital transformation, offering solutions that allow businesses to thrive in rapidly evolving digital landscapes.

📋 Description

• Provides strategic oversight for the planning and monitoring of construction projects from start to completion • Monitors the financial close-out on all projects including settlement of all vendors • Reports status, successes, challenges and key activities to senior management • Develops, manages and is accountable for achievement of key commercial metrics • Drives continuous improvement initiatives and develops best practices • Ensures correct level of professional cost management resources are identified, engaged and managed on all regional construction projects • Provides cost management advice and support • Oversees and provides guidance on commercial change management and change evaluation efforts on all projects • Oversees the preparation of budgets (including detailed cost modeling and benchmarking analysis) and presents to senior management • Monitors adherence against budget throughout the project lifespan, including cost checks and reviews, value engineering and cost saving initiatives and evaluation of alternates • Data analytics for project portfolio cash flow and earned value analysis utilizing Power BI and SQL queries • Reviews project cost reports and carries out regular reviews of these with senior management • Acts as a stage gate approver of budgets prior to executive approval • Oversees the adherence against company expenditure limits • Provides guidance and assists with the orderly development of requests for proposal leading into procurement for design services agreements, owner furnished equipment and general contractor services agreements • Guides the overall contracting strategy and signing off of construction contracts • Guides contract policy and ensuring audit compliance • Advises and intervenes appropriately to resolve major contractual claims and disputes as they arise • Sets out risk management policy and auditing compliance • Pro-actively leads all commercial risk management efforts including commercial audits, contingency analyses, risk identification and analyses and management training • Drives global coordination when developing strategies with corporate development, legal, company management, while also managing internal key stakeholders • Directly manages a team of Commercial Managers and works closely with other internal project teams of varying levels of seniority • Manages the regional Commercial Management team to perform as industry-leading function • Trains and develops in-house teams on commercial controls and best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Typically 7+ years of professional experience ideally in data center or mission critical system design, construction and costing • Demonstrated data analytics experience, ideally with Power BI and SQL queries • Bachelor's degree in construction, business, financial or related field preferred • RICS (Royal Institute Chartered Surveyor Accreditation) preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members. • Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future. • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.